Subject: RE: [baidarka] Hooper Bay Carving Knife
From: Garry Jackson (garry.jackson@silverbrookresearch.com)
Date: Mon Oct 11 2004 - 18:55:46 EDT
Wolfgang,
Thanks for the compliment. I find the shorter wooden handled knives to
be the easiest to use. You are right about the distance to the crook. I
try to get the working part of the blade as close as possible to the
handle. It also helps to have the blade exiting from close to the bottom
of the handle so it's on the work as soon as it exits the handle.
The longer knife took a while to get used to but works well with
practice. With its wider blade, I find I need to bevel the underside of
the cutting edge a little in order to take deep cuts (add some rocker
across the width of the blade). A little like a round bottomed spoke
shave compared to a flat bottom.
Garry
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Sent: Monday, 11 October 2004 11:32 PM
To: baidarka@paddlewise.net
Subject: RE: [baidarka] Hooper Bay Carving Knife
--- Garry Jackson <garry.jackson@silverbrookresearch.com> wrote:
> The Hooper Bay adze was bolted to the handle via a steel plate. I
> have
> made a copy of the adze and the crooked knife as described in David
> Zimmerly's book. I couldn't put a whale bone handle on the knife so
> resorted to using sheep horn, which was more readily available in
> Oz.
> The crooked knife is quite easy to make if anybody wants to try.
> Please
> refer to:
> http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/~garry.jackson/Pages/tools.html
>
nice looking tools. How do you like the longer vs. the shorter knife?
I find that with a lot of crooked knives, the crook is too far from
the handle for good control.
Wolfgang
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