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Thank you very much, Marty! I really appreciate your compliments.
Sorry, I’m a little late with my response.
Your starter knife “K… something” was a “Klötzli #2”? The forger/cutler Ernst-Ulrich Klötzli (1911–1975) designed this shape together with the master chip carver Christian Rubi (1899–1990). It is still in production and available since the 1950s until today. I just purchased some the other day.
Do you mind if I post a picture? (I don’t want to compete with your fabulous knives on your own website.)
Norbert RiediParticipantThis is very inspiring, thank you! Looks very nice and very skilled.
Norbert RiediParticipantNorbert RiediParticipantI brought myself and the knife somehow at the edge of my current chip carving skills with this letters size in Swiss Pine Wood. The lowercases are ca. 11,5 cm in height. The cuts are quite deep. The board is ca. 95 cm long and will be placed at the outside of a cottage—it reads the cottage’s name. That’s my very first commissioned work in chip carving! 😉
By the way … according to Wikipedia the Swiss Pine Wood or Arve, Zirbe (Latin “Pinus Cembra”) only grows in the Alps up to the timberline and on some spots in the Carpathian Mountains. It’s scent is really very pleasant and it’s pure joy to carve this wood. Okay, the hard spots are very hard. Brittle even.
Hope you enjoy.
Take care everybody.
Norbert RiediParticipantI like this squirl pattern and your carving. And yes, improvement can happen. But it’s not for free. Never. Nowhere. Everything is hard work. And a good master around. Which Marty sure is. His tipps are worthy! And to me key is the depth and the angles of tip of the blade. In some patterns I draw fine lines to help me see where I have to be with the tipp approximately.
Norbert RiediParticipantThanks for the compliments, @Andrei Gotia.
Norbert RiediParticipantThank you very much @Andrei Gotia! I appreciate. And I sure would like to send him the whole set rather than just a picture ;-).
Norbert RiediParticipantRemember your last tip on round forms over there at one of my Instagram-postings, Marty? It was really pivotal for me! From this one I could easely take on on some of the other “problems” and solve some sources of error. Because it teached me to carve the weak cuts, the somehow easy “grain-followers” always first. No matter of its size or form. (It’s complicated for me to explain it correctly; my english is not good in enough.) The blade somehow likes to follow the way of the least resistance …
Norbert RiediParticipantThank you for all your very motivating comments!
@ Michael Disher : Yes, the Opinels are quite sharp from the getgo. And after a very deep cut in the finger pad carving my very first knife-handle, i started to wrap cardboard and some Duck Tape around the blade before chip-carving and after sketching out the pattern.
Norbert RiediParticipantTop to bottom:
2 x Beechwood, Walnut, Beechwood, 2 x WalnutNorbert RiediParticipantTop to bottom: 4 x Oak, 3 x Olive.
Norbert RiediParticipantNorbert RiediParticipantThanks Marty, thanks Shereecox! Here’s another set …
Norbert RiediParticipantThank you, Shereecox!
Norbert RiediParticipantYour welcome, Marty!
Yes, there are really many hard spots in the Swiss Pine Wood, also known as Arolla Pine, or Latin “Pinus Cembra”. It’s a special type of alpine pine with a very typical smell/scent too.
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