Hook Knives
Custom Handmade Carving Knives
Woodcarving tools. A hook knife and adze.
Recover and re-purpose high carbon steels from lumber mills. The knife shop is solar powered. https://aki-and-scott-fireweed.blogspot.com/2021/12/living-with-solar-power-for-25-years.html
Handmade Crooked Knives
Crooked knife. Handmade with a moose antler handle. Made for Carvers and Farriers.
Farrier knives. Crooked knife with a flat back even with the elk antler handle. One bevel.
Carving Crooked Knives
Custom
Carving Knife Sets, Image Gallery
Create your own set to your specifications,
Long handles on your hook knives.
Long hook knife handle, 2 hands. 16 inches of apple wood, 6 inch hook blade. 22 inches overall.
Big hook blade. 6 inches of double bevelled edge, 4 1/2 inch tang inset and bolted.
Hook and Crooked Knife Woodcarving Sets
Custom bowl carving tools. Sculpting wood. A 2 inch edge hand forged adze and a 4 inch full parabolic double bevelled hook knife. Fruit wood handles.
Spoon Carving Knives and Bowl Carving Tools
Bowl carving tools. Adze, crooked knife and a draw knife
Handmade woodcarving tools custom made for carving bowls. A medium sized full hook knife with a 6” edge heavy duty draw knife and a 1 1/2” edge carving adze. Apple wood handles.
Bowl carving tools. Medium size full hooked blade, 1 1/2 inch edge adze and a 5 inch edge draw knife. Use the draw knife like a hatchet.
Hook Knife Blades
Pacific Northwest style carving blades. 6 inch hook blades, 5 inch hook blades and a 3 1/2 inch straight blade.
Blades only would be 1/2 the price of a knife with a handle. Straight knife blades as well. You can send line drawings with the specifications you want. The chart below shows 6 basic shapes. Use that as a guide for pricing and style
A hook knife with bevels on the bottom. The edges are flared out.
Bevels can be on top or on the bottom
Living and working on the edge of the Chilcotin Plateau in the bush. Living simply growing food, off most of the grids and making tools and knives. https://aki-and-scott-fireweed.blogspot.com/2021/12/living-with-solar-power-for-25-years.html
Big handles to put one or 2 hands on. Walnut wood, parabolic hook - tough knife.
Step by step guide to making a hook knife.
Scott Richardson wrote an article for the Canadian Woodworking Magazine on How to make a traditional hook knife, crooked knife, bent knife or crook. On this site How to build a hook knife, with pictures. This is a concise and detailed article on how to make a knife. You can use this method to make a wood carving knife of any style.
Long handle straight knives, 15 inches long, woodcarving skews and slicks with 24 inch handles.
Custom Made
Pacific Northwest carving tools. British Columbia, Canada.
Custom made crooked knife set and adze. 6 basic shapes of hook and a bowl adze. Hand carved cherry handles.
Crooked/ Hook/ Bent Knife Prices:
From top to bottom, #1, bottom #6. Basic Shapes.
A small size has a 6 1/2 inch handle and a 1 3/4 inch to 2 1/8 inch edge. Small knives cost between $375 - $450 each.
Medium has an 8 inch handle with 2 1/2 inch to 3 1/4 inch edges with 3/16" tangs. Medium knives, $475 - $565 each.
Large knives have 10 inch handles, 3 1/2 to 4 1/4 inch edges with 3/16" tangs. Large knives, $625 -$750 each.
Our style #1, in all three sizes we offer, has a handle a bit longer, a blade a bit longer, thicker and wider. A good choice for a strong and tough spoon carving knife, bowl carving knife and a great all round carving hook knife. Pacific Northwest style.
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate, contact us.