HOW TO USE YOUR HOOK KNIFE

In this video I show you one of the most common techniques in using a hook knife for spoon carving.
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[@catherineh7755]

Thank you for making this video! I usually just wing it and learn from experience but I was kind lost with the hooked knife.

[@Ascetic_MC]

How is your woodworking going 4 years later?

[@wouterblieck1877]

After cutting my thumb with a hook knife at the right side next to the nail, this is what I needed, thank you!

[@jfuentes207]

Lol. I stabbed my stomach and ruined my fav shirt. Now i'm here.

[@fantom8713]

Juan Fuentes haha me too! I have a hole in my shirt and had to get stitches. Just cut my hand again today. Definitely need help.

[@reandor]

just did that 2 minutes ago, the pain is real :D

[@MackaOZ]

I just done exactly the same thing too.. so thought I’d check KZbin out to find the proper way to use one 🤣

[@jaredtardiff1136]

Lol I cut my thumb in the same place too

[@mathquir190]

It's a good thing you mention that the thumb is out of the way of the blade. People, even me !, use to forget sometime to NEVER put a part of your body in the way of any kind of blade.

[@jeanwhitaker6129]

Beautiful explanation/video/hands!

[@earlelzy7243]

I have a small walnut spoon blank I've been working on because I'm new to this and my hook knife is too big for it. I'm still learning wood grain too.

[@xvhkgreen6297]

I just want to eat my cereal :'(

[@finncook7944]

Huh

[@davidshelp7116]

have you ever done a video on sharpening a hook knife?

[@unitytira4954]

Good day, thank you so much for sharing this video and your experience. It is a great help. I am seeking to be acquainted with the harmony of the wood + hook knife + myself. Thank you so much for your instructions. Blessings.

[@bigbean4582]

thank you for this ive recently got into whittling and had no idea how to use it

[@wesleypipesgaming19]

Thank you so much! I've been using it wrong this whole time and wondering why it wasn't working 😅

[@innakravchuk6669]

THANKS FOR MAKING THE VID

[@cliff9057]

Thanks from a beginner. Good video.

[@jeffclarkofclarklesparkle3103]

Ou! Thank you Sir! ...getting a few soon and great tip at the beginning!!

[@jeffclarkofclarklesparkle3103]

I would have wasted a lot of time with my pieces, grain going any direction lol.

[@Time2RockUrLive]

As a german, your name makes for a fun cultural meme (think of Kyle Anger/ Tyler Fury as the US equivalent). I appreciate the info within the video. Very useful and successfully applied! :-)

[@kevinzorn2638]

I’ve heard this before too and it makes me laugh!

[@mrpackman2133]

Great video thank you for sharing!

[@mikachan808]

Mahalo..was very useful😊

[@seansmart3440]

Excellent video. Thank you.

[@michaelhughes3293]

Thanks for the video. It looks painful using that wood, I'd always use green wood, i dont understand people using dried wood, its so much more difficult and not traditional.

[@DraDiSe]

not everyone has access to a regular source of green wood

[@JonEWeaver]

Very cool!

[@tridentmc1958]

Thanks this was really helpful!!

[@Maurice.7765]

You have a very big spoon sir 😮🤔

[@allenaverill2461]

Well done!

[@mattg2306]

Thanks

[@bushcraftjoe1]

Great video hope to see more like it

[@dallyuk]

Thats cool

[@livechimera666]

nice explanation but i woul boil a kettle of water put the water in a pan and soak the blank for ten minutes as this will make the wood a lot easier to carve. this is if you are going to only use dry wood. the usual practice for spoon carving is ti get a fresh cut section of tree as a log and spliti it down to make a bank. as the fresh wood is saturated with water it is ten times easier to carve and shape.

[@kevinzorn2638]

Yea, that's an interesting suggestion with the boiling water method. I usually carve dry wood because that's just what I find in my location - reclaimed wood or off-cuts from other pieces

[@BCreation2023]

Hello! I have the more 162 with Sharp Edge on both sides. And i always use pucjcuts, never the pullcuts. Im right handed.. it feels more natural to push for me. So i have been thinking om buying singelbladed 164 so i can get my finger at the spine for Harder cuts. But i see that i will have to buy the lefthanded to get the blade on the «right» side for me. Is this wrong? Should you always use the pullcuts? Any advantadges im missing?

[@kevinzorn2638]

Hi Tony it sounds like you know what you're doing so if it works for you and you're not in danger of cutting yourself using that method then I'd say you're all good.

[@2manysigns]

Good info

[@matthewbelken6265]

what wood are you using in the video?

[@kevinzorn2638]

The wood is black walnut that's been kiln dried.

[@buckwild5369]

That’s some nice wood. What is that you are cutting?

[@kevinzorn2638]

Hi Buck, in the video I'm working on black walnut.

[@Weeping-willow._.]

Help I found my first spoon carve and I ruined it. It looks like a shank not a spoon. Now I know how to use the knife but I need to find spoon starts like these

[@bearbones7913]

Is the pointy end required for anything? It's so bloody pointy

[@kevinzorn2638]

Some knife makers don't have such pointy hook knives and Mora themselves might even have one that isn't. I don't know why these ones are, no reason I can think of

[@byv4480]

Thanks for a great video!

[@eliasloureiro179]

Can i make with a softwood or needs to be a hardwood to make the spoon stronger?

[@kevinzorn2638]

You can use a soft wood if you plan on using the spoon for dry goods like scooping rice, salt, oatmeal. You’ll probably be fine using it for other things too you’d just have be careful with it, no putting it in the dishwasher

[@eliasloureiro179]

@@kevinzorn2638 Thanks, this will help me a lot ❤️

[@andyanderson4604]

2 years later...

[@sheltonforester3707]

I wanted to see the finished spoon. :(

[@breth2442]

Oh hell no. I'll go back to carving spoons with a dremel

[@shenyathewelder9695]

I’ll probs say it untill I die, the only tools you need to make a good spoon are a hatchet, knife, spoon knife, and sand paper.

[@grant6173]

Young man. A hook knife is a thing. You're not wrong. Google Ceasars canoe, and you'll see where your knife comes from. The blade should be straight, not warped out.

[@johnjacobs3502]

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[@plants5743]

Can’t you just stabilize it?

[@kevinzorn2638]

Hi, I'm not sure what you mean. But if you want to use gouges then yes you can clamp the spoon to a table and use those.

[@plants5743]

Kevin Zorn use resin to stabilize the wood after you do the carving

[@nannettebattista3047]

This time I will do it manually with the help of Woodglut designs.

[@adrianellis4497]

Although your guide is helpful, any edge tool technique depends on three things, 1. A thorough understanding of the wood you will be working, 2. A properly sharpened tool, 3. Read watch and learn from others that have mastered there use. Many people use edge tools in different ways successfully. Once you have the basic understanding you will find a way that suits you.

[@Ren_N05]

You also have to be right handed. I tried to do this with my left and its practically impossible 🙃

[@premiumcarrot]

There's no left handed hook knife eh?

[@kevinzorn2638]

There is! Morakniv makes one just be sure to select left handed when you buy it.

[@CaptainPupu]

This knife is the worst invention of mankind.. no matter what, it doesn't cut for me. It gets the wood all rugedy and leaves like rivers in it so the surface will be inconsistent and I have to cut it all off. No matter what I try it doesn't carve. It's very bad. It didn't even came sharpened and I have no idea how you sharpen a carved snail blade

[@kevinzorn2638]

I have seen this happen - there are some videos of people using this knife and the cuts it makes for them can definitely be described as "rugged". I would say to check the blade to see if it is sharp, try using a different type of wood, some hardwoods are much too hard to learn with especially if they're dry. Sharpening this knife takes practice and there are videos online on how to do this. If it comes to it you can try a gouge instead of a hook knife.

[@1777DK]

Not being able to work the tool, is very different to the tool not working.

[@CaptainPupu]

@@1777DK it's not. It's really a useless knife. Since this comment I got a beavercraft gouge and holy moly I can work with it so wonderfully. I made many spoons with it since. It really is just a bad tool.

[@1777DK]

@@CaptainPupu I stand by my original comment.

[@jimmyjr977]

@@1777DK I agree with you

[@leprosysucks]

I spend a lot of time with my hook knife making kuksa cups and I spend 95% of my time with the knife in a reverse grip using the thumb on my non knife hand as a lever point