All About Pocket Knives

That easily qualifies for listing in "my top 10 ugliest and most useless knife(?) I have ever seen."

Why do people do things like this to innocent and unsuspecting pieces of steel?

I have been whittlin', woodcarving, teaching and of course, sharpening for 70 years. I have found that if you want to cut wood with your knife or gouge, there is absolutely no need to get into stones with grits in the thousands. If your hobby is getting knives absurdly sharp, that is another thing e...

I was asked by a magazine that I have written a few articles for, to do a knife review. I found the knife to be way overpriced and not all that comfortable for use in the way that I work. I gave an honest review, which was heavily edited. I was told that the producer of the knife was a major adverti...

I saw an episode of a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation TV series Murdoch Mysteries, which is set in the early 1900s -1903 or thereabouts - where one of the characters deployed a Buck 110!
They missed this one!

Case of someone overthinking something.

Get the Victorinox. In the real world they will absolutely do the job as well or better than much more expensive knives. They are available individually or in sets, with Fibrox handles that are dishwasher safe, or with snazzy wooden ones at higher prices. If you want knives that will CUT, get them. ...

If you want a large, stout packing knife it would be a good place to start. I bought my locking jumbo trapper many years ago from Smokey Mountain Knifeworks. I'm sure glad I did. It's been a great companion all along. Some folks collect these to put on shelves and that's OK, I guess, but as a worki...

Humming Byids are very rare though.
Imagine how rare Humming Byid lighters must be!

Well, I must have hit the wrong button somehow, and lost what I was trying to post. Tying again. A friend decided that he wanted to create a Biblical scene in his yard. Specifically the one recorded in Exodus 17:6, where God told Moses to strike the rock and water would come out. The friend set abou...

Some out of cottonwood bark.
The one is a practice piece for doing a female face, which I always find a lot more difficult than a male face. (Am I allowed to use those terms these days?)

Hopefully, y'all can detect the difference.

(There are people who have trouble with this these days.)

A few more caricatures

Here's a weird whittlin' that I carved some time ago but just recently painted.
I call it "A Fish With Attitude"

Somebody, with any level of intelligence, explain to the world any rational reason at all for banning a knife that locks back ????? Are straight, fixed blades banned too????? ::facepalm:: J.O'. You make a serious mistake when you assume that the people in charge have any idea of what they are doing...

I have this one with the same stamp. All three blades have the stamp
It is 4" closed. Tight and snappy. Bone scales.

During the last years of Camillus, they were putting out a lot of knives with mixed blades. I got a sold quite a few. I still have a few in the loaner roll for my whittlin' classes. It was interesting to compare the performance of the stainless and carbon blades. My conclusion: no discernable differ...

As long as you really do that you'll be ok.

I have seen MANY people anticipate the flip, and wipe their edge off, so I always advise against forward flips.

If you want to strop on alternate sides, it is important to be very careful when turning the knife over. Flipping it backwards, so that the spine of the knife is facing the strop as it is turned over, will keep you from rounding the edge.

When I notice that the edge is not as razor sharp as I need it - for whittlin' say - I give it 5 or so firm stroks on one side and then 5 on the other side and its usually good to go again.

I can usually touch it up at least 25 times on the strop before I need to use the stone again.

FINALLY someone emphasizes the need for the burr as the key to getting a knife sharp, which I have been teaching for years, and, I have found, comes as a revelation to my students, some of whom are chefs and meat cutters, who you would think would know this. You will NEVER get your knife really shar...

Those are great knives.
I sold dozens of them to my whittlin' students.
I still have two in my loaner roll.
I was selling them for 12.00 and that was a great deal for a really good knife.

Here is one I whittled, just using a knife - no bent knife or gouge.

Here are some recent spoons that I made.

I make almost all of my spoons out of white birch

Borre1985 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 04, 2021 4:01 pm Welcome, Brittany! I'm new too. Is it possible to rely on this article? Can someone from experienced tell me which set to buy?

I would avoid getting the X-Acto (flimsy)or Flexcut (too much money and too many knives of the same basic shape - just different sizes) sets.

Welcome, Brittany! I'm new too. Is it possible to rely on this article ? Can someone from experienced tell me which set to buy? I usually tell beginners to get a good pocket knife. A modified Opinel is a great knife, and the modifications are easily done with a file and a sharpening stone and strop...

Thanks for the kind words guys.
Whittlin' heads and faces is a lot of fun. I just can't quit!