Detail Knife I Made Tonight

[rick-in-seattle]

Made with a Swedish straight razor and Tiger stripe maple.

[Anthony Filetti]

Great job Rick! Looks wonderful (like the TIGER maple) and I'm sure it cuts well too!

[squbrigg]

Nice knife, you can always depend on Maple to come up with an interesting curl, pattern, sworl or detail in the grain. Swedish razor steel.....should be good edge then? I have a Two Cherries detail knife, a real piece of junk, too fine a point, too soft a steel, forever bending or breaking it off. Have a new Flexcut detail knife, better steel, but poor shape/angle to the handle. Also have a Rowlenson detail knife (part of the full set of 12 gouges etc) cuts well but it's not comfortable, it has a long shank between the blade and the handle. Yours looks like a good balance, how does it cut?

Bob

[rick-in-seattle]

Bob,
It cuts like a razor; until you try one, it is difficult to comprend the difference.

[squbrigg]

Let me ask you about bent knives Rick. I have a Flexcut bent knife R, and it's a nice cutting blade, but I am looking for a wider variety of shapes.....for example in your Diobsud Forge bent knives. What are they like? Are they avaliable in both left and right handed blades? I've been using Warren interchangable bent blades (L & R), with success, but the also have limits.

Bob

[Mike-in-WV]

Rick, Thats a great looking detail knife! I'm happy with my Flexcut bench knife and my new detail knife but it wasn't as sharp as it should have been right out of the package . A few strokes on my fine stone and razor strap took care of that. Mike

[rick-in-seattle]

Bob,
Diobsud bent knives are designed to make "shaving cuts"; they are mainly used in Northwest Formline carving. Yes, Fred Cogelow does use them for his sculptures, but I am positive he understands their limitations.

They have the same great quality as all Diobsud tools.

For most carvers, I would recommend North Bay Forge bent knives.
You will be seeing more of them on my site next month; until then, they are shown on the Japan Woodworker website.

I can't say enough about North Bay tools, they are amazing. I handle several sharp tools every day without giving it a second thought, but when I open a North Bay tool, my attention is entirely focused on that tool. Even then, it still happens that I sometimes get cut.

I know this seems to go against what I have always said about there being only one sharp and varing degrees of dullness.
But North Bay is the "one sharp" I have been talking about.

Each Diobsud and North Bay bent knife is designed for left and righthand use in the same tool.

[big_Wayne_P]

I like that Knife Rick

Can you post a link to the Jappanese wood worker site you were reffering to
i would like to see those knives

I am thinking about buying another carving knife
Right now my main carving knives are Butz knives that i bought from Woodcraft in 2003
I like the feel of the handle and i can get them sharp
just been looking around
lookined at the Flexcut knives, Murphy knives, Warren Knives

I also have a couple of the older mill type knives i use
and some pocket knoves (Scharade, Uncle henry, Old Timer, Case)

Price does have some consideration but my biggest cocern is the feel of the knife. I have looked at some of the more expensive knives and they
just were not confortable in my hand

[rick-in-seattle]

Wayne, I was refering to bent knives when I mentioned North Bay.

http://japanwoodworkeronline.com/041..._SITE/0056.htm

[Nancy-G]

I'm glad you cleared that up Rick -- I thought you were saying you liked North Bay more than Diobsud. Were you saying that?
Is there something better than a Diobsud knife?

Nahhhhhhhh --- I don't believe it.