How To Sharpen A Spoon Carving Knife

How to Sharpen a Hook Knife or Spoon Carving Knife.
How to sharpen a spoon carving knife. To sharpen the hook knife I spray glued 6 long strips of sandpaper to 12 dowels. You need two things both shown in. Sharpening a spoon carving hook knife.
It uses cheap simple tools including something that may surprise you for the inside of the hook. Order right handed if you draw or PULL the knife towards your body with your RIGHT hand or PUSH away from your body with the LEFT hand to carve. Just cut a piece with the curved knife out of a block of balsa great enough to keep it in my left hand while sharpening.
Then keep it that way by frequently stropping andor honing. Its good blade hygiene to start razor sharp. This itself may completely remove your honed and razor sharp cutting edge to the point that you will have to regrind the entire knife edge.
How to Sharpen a Hook Knife or Spoon Carving Knife Woodworking - YouTube. If your carving blade is three quarters of and inch in width or more lay your blade flat on the sharpening surface and raise the spine of the blade until you can fit the edge of a nickel under it. If youre wondering how to sharpen a hook knife all you need to do is follow the steps below.
We all started with a freshly sharpened knife and a piece of cherry wood. I often get asked how to sharpen a hook knife for spooncarving so have had a video made. There are three ways on how to sharpen spoon carving knives using stones and you can try and use whichever will work best for you.
Then wrap some compound in it. I charged the finest grit 1000 with white buffing compound. Hold the angle and start sharpening along the bevel using clean sweeps.