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Anyone ever flown internationally with carving stuff? Flying to Costa Rica and checking a bag, would like to throw in a small spoon blank, my hook, and my sloyd for some vacation carving. Thoughts?? Worst fear I have is my bag getting checked somehow and them taking my knives.

Apologies is this proves I'm the spooncarving pretender who doesn't just use one knife, one hook knife, and a stump. I can't imagine not using my vice, but I think I'm outgrowing my set up and wondering if something like a patternmakers vice is a common choice for spoon carvers?

Anyone ever carved a spoon out of Saskatoon? I just got a couple pieces, and as a beginner I’m wondering if it is any good to work with? Thanks!

Plum—Mulberry—Mulberry—Beetle Kill Pine

I haven't carved in a few months....maple sugaring season took presidence for a while, but thats over and now time to get back to it. so I grabbed a Birch log, split it, and did a quick hand drawn layout and went to work. man I can't say enough about this Twca-Cam I got from Deepwoods Ventures. it plowed right through the birch. this is just a rough out, still lots of thinning and smoothing to do. but it was fun slinging steel and making shavings.

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I’m making some little coffee scoops and other spoons out of cherry and when I first carve it the sapwood is a beautiful creamy white, but overnight it tends to bruise a bit like an apple. The relevant sections here are the central strip on the scoop and approx 9 o’clock to midnight on the bowl of the ice cream spoon. It still looks quite nice but I’m wondering if there is anything I can do to prevent it and preserve the whiteness. Do I just need sharper knives?

Anyone have any suggestions for an inexpensive draw knife (hoping for 50ish but definitely under 100) that isn't a piece of the garbage and won't take a ton of time to set up? Any suggestions on size? Is the 5" flex cut worth look at? How about the Stubai? Thanks?

Hi all!

I am new to spoon carving and am moving into a smaller apartment soon. I dont think I will have much space so make my own blanks... does anyone know of someone I could buy some Greenwood blanks from around Boston?

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I had two small honey dippers outside in the sun to accelerate the oil polymerization process, and one disappeared without a trace. They were resting on a flat railing that receives heavy squirrel traffic. My best guess is that one came along, smelled and tasted the walnut oil, and said finders-keepers. I can't find it anywhere. I'm bummed because it was a beautiful piece of wood: spalted sawtooth oak. Lesson learned.

Not at all new to carving but new to carving greenwood and spoons. I'm currently using a new mora spoon knife and its really slow going. I'm assuming this is a technique and practice issue but I'm curious, for those of you have used a Mora and then moved on to hand forged makers (Deep woods Ventures, Pinewood Forge, etc), is there THAT big of a difference? I've noticed the grind on the Mora hook knives is quite different from the other makers.