13mm Scorp Knife

While chatting with a buddy about wood carving, they mentioned a couple of links to wood carving tools. I told my friend that my lack of use of any wood carving tools that are specific to spoons and such, is a problem. I have no tool experience with any of those knifes and wouldn't know what to look for if I went shopping. There is no initial state of reference.

Most of the carving knives I saw were (IMHO) a nice wooden handle on a well crafted curved blade. In terms of getting experience with a special carving knife, do I really need to start with a nice one? Could I, perhaps, start with a low quality knife, possibly one crafted at home? Yes, that is a grand idea.

It was a cold day between downpours, but it was sunny. Sunny and soggy, and I had a knife to make before I ran out of daylight. The knife I opted to make has a full circle blade, and is called a scorp knife. It is used for carving out spoons, bowls, and other concave items. yea, I should carve a coffee cup.

Sacrifice to Crom

a 13mm wrench in my hand. What is the Riddle of Steel? This was a perfectly good 13mm wrench. I imagine that in the next few days I will have dire need of 13mm wrench.

Crom laughs at your 13mm

Carve and Grind

the closed end of the 13mm wrench. The inside has been carved smooth as is a short 13mm cylinder A 40 grit flapper wheel on an angle grinder smoothed and shaped the outside of the ring to an edge that was later sharpened with a dremel. The wrench was then cut in half.

At this point, the former wrench is a circular blade on a tang.

Get a Grip

the end of the 13mm wrench sticking out of a wooden rod A left-over cedar wood rod from another project's handle, was used for this handle. It was drilled out, and the tang was inserted along with a good amount of glue.

Shape the Grip

the shaped handle of the knife is connected to the blocky wooden rod by a thin isthimus of material The 40 grit wheel brought the handle down to something shaped more comfortably for holding.

Now it is a matter of waiting for the glue to dry.

Sip Click Scorp :)

The finished scorping knife sitting next to my morning cuppa

Scorp-tacular!

the scorp knife resting upon a wooden spoon. The handle and edge of the spoon is very rough, but the inside of the spoon is nicely carved This is my first test with the scorp knife, and I am certainly pleased with the result so far. That being said, this spoon is cedar wood, which is certainly softer than just about anything else I will be scorping with the scorp knife.

scrape, scoop, scorp!

Cheers,
jezra