BeaverCraft‘s Best Kept Secret ...and what’s this about Left Hand and Right Hand Hook Knives?

Greg Miller looks at the BeaverCraft SK4 knives, and addresses the question of left hand and right hand hook knives. These are beautiful hook knives!

[@spencerreed8480]

Reminds me of how suturing has forehand and backhand like tennis

[@Owieczkin]

Fun fact: having an edge on both sides of the blade, makes crooked knives ambidextrous. At the same time you can't push that blade with your fingers anymore. An interesting way around that is to have a blade shaped like a full circle/elipse ;D

[@thejoyofwood]

It all comes down to your technique, which may vary with the different knives. You will notice in this particular video, the pushing on the back of the blade is never used.
I used to teach that technique with the old style Mora164 blades. It was brilliant. Then about 12 months ago Mora changed the 164, reducing right down that nice fat back. Personally I reckon they got it wrong. I no longer sell the 164 knives as I don’t like them!

[@Owieczkin]

@@thejoyofwood do You recommend any other popular hook knife? Does Beavercraft make blades with comfortable spines?

[@OOOuise]

can a lefty solely use a right-handed hook comfortably, like you used the left-handed hook ? (I want to buy a spoon making set, but they don't seem to come with lefty/ambidextrous hooks)

[@thejoyofwood]

Yes, Lefty, you can use either. The BeaverCraft Spoon Carving Starter kit comes with a Right hook, but we change that to a Left when people ask us to. No probs! Greg.

[@kevinmorrice]

@@thejoyofwood ive always wondered what the difference was, so is it just a small handful of specific knives that are actually different