You can buy a farrier s hoof-trimming knife (new or used) and change the bevel to 12 degrees. You can buy blades and haft them, you can buy finished crooked knives. Like I said, I d rather haft another Kestrel elbow adze blade and get on with it. Got 6 Hall knives on the bench now, nearly ready for carving. You can buy a farrier's hoof-trimming knife (new or used) and change the bevel to 12 degrees. If you expect flat inside walls that meet a flat bottom in a dish, you need one or more crooked knives. PacNW carvers make all sorts of dishes and feast bowls and never need a bowl adze. The dish will be no more than 15% of the wood. You could hog out a lot of waste wood in a hurry to make them light enough for your lathe. Like I said, I'd rather haft another Kestrel elbow adze blade and get on with it. Another is Hans Karlsson from Sweden(?) if you can ever find any of his tools really for sale. North Bay Forge is over in Washington state, like Kestrel. We should at 53N in the mountains.īowl adzes cost a bundle. I was lucky that he had one on the shelf, but you may have to be patient while he gets around to your order.Hi Wondered if you had decided to hibernate a little longer. Bear in mind that he does not hold a great deal of stock of ready made items. I read recently that Dave has revised the design of his adzes after meeting an eastern European carver, so what he is offering now would probably be different to mine. Unfortunately, mine was never stamped with his logo. The handle itself needed thinning a bit for my wee paws, so it was a good thing the wedge came loose! No steel wedges involved so it was easy to re-wedge it and it has been solid ever since. I guess the humidity in my garage is different to the humidity in Dave's shed. The handle came loose on mine almost straight away as the wedge worked itself loose, but he did say he put the handle on in a hurry. I've had it for a couple of years and I have never had to sharpen it more than a quick wipe on a leather strop. I think it would be most at home digging out wider shallower bowls. I mostly use it for starting kuksa sized holes which I finish with a curved gouge. Its a fine piece of steel indeed and has dug lots of holes in lots of pieces of wood. the price has increased by £20.Īny other recommendation for good versatile bowl adzes for less that £100? What if any are the drawbacks of having too tight a sweep?Īs a novice I appriciate any advice, so thanks in advance.Įdit: just checked his website again and it looks like hes had a bit of a rejig. any advice on optimum angles?Īlso what sweep is preferable? I am thinking if it is too flat it will be less versatile as it will be unable to be used for small projects. I understand the bevel needs to be on the outside for the control and to prevent it from digging in. Does anyone have any advice on what shape and size works well? and what shape would be the most versatile? He makes size sweep curve and shape to order. Can anyone reccomend this desicion/ have any eperience with one of his adzes? This for me however is just a too far out the realms of what I'm willing to pay as a novice.Īfter some looking around I have decided to buy a head from Dave Budd as he has a good reputation and it comes a reasonable £70. It seems that there are a lot out there however what i seem to find is that everyone rests at the same opinion spend the money, get the Hans Karlsson. My next purchase is to get an Adze for carving bowls, maybe larger kuksa's, generally to hollow things fast. I have recently got into wood carving and I am currently amassing a collection of tools.
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