Best Draw Knife For Spoon Carving. The General Carver makes a great addition to this knife for your spoon carving tool bag. Personally I prefer a shorter blade so I like the small and medium North Bay Forge straight knives.
Warren Handles and Blades. The Pfeil carvers drawknife is undoubtedly the finest carving tool on the market. DK2 Draw Knife was one of the latest models we made.
For example Lawson Cypress a parent of cypress Leylandii is an excellent wood for spoon carving and its easy to source because people frequently chop it down to avoid having wars with their neighbours about it.
Theres also a smaller 3 splitting knife for handling the more accurate and intricate work. Use your knife to make push cuts and thumb push cuts around the top part where the spoon head is located. Start with a large spoon. The draw knife is used for the removal of excess timber for rounding off stock and for chamfering either freehand or in a shave horse There are some delightful old draw knives still to be found at boot fairs and specialist sales but be careful to check that the edge is still good and that back of the blade is not pitted with cleaned out rust.
