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Most of the carving tools are hand made by each carver. Yes a small chisel will work. but even the tip of a knife blade will work. Lots of times the Puukko knife that was carried would just have the blade wrapped in hide so as to not cut the hand. and just the tip was used for the carving. Hope this helps. Try looking up Roman Kislitsyn. He once posted a good article also showing the tools he used.

Yes. All of my knife blades are heat treated. then differential tempered "Softer at the spine than at the edge".

Thank you for the wonderful tip. are you using a white liquid pigment? or very fine antler filings? also are you using clear epoxy? or white epoxy? or hide glue?

@@tombrown879 A drop of cyanoacrylate on the tip of a needle. But before that you need to remove all the black color. If you want white, place a very small drop of water on top of the CA. Liquid CA turns white with water.

@@HARM633 What a great work around. thank you for sharing. Would you do a video on carving a line of triangles sometime. With a look at the tool, you are using and angle deg. of blade. i still struggle with this technique and think that my blade angle is too steep that my triangles would have to be very tiny to work. I will defiantly need to try and make a barrel knife sometime. the ones you have created are amazing. Thank you again for your knowledge.

@@tombrown879 I didn't understand about the line of triangles. I have a cutter like yours, I sharpen it at 10-40 degrees. V - shtikhel (graver?). And a set of chisels from 1 to 4 mm from drill shanks. I do small triangles in 3 movements, not in one.

@@HARM633 thank you for all of your great info. This will help me.

Thank you for the kind words.

Yes mine had power steering. And you can get them with AC also

If you'd like to know more. There is a whole Facebook page dedicated to the Trekkers can a couple other Oddball pop up companies that tried to do pretty much the same thing

Yep. I did end up adding a 8oz. Ball pein hammer later after the video. Good catch.

I'm glad you like it. Hope you can use it in the future. At some point I will be posting videos of how to do many different styles of file work that I've done over the years. And of course if you're going to do it on a knife I would recommend you do it while it is annealed. Or if you do a differential temper. It May be soft enough to do it after heat treatment.

Thank you. I will try it.

Yes, it is a snowflake. and yes, they are made in the same way as a split cross but with more cuts. I leared to make them years ago. I learned them from my uncle. but have also seen John Bennet and Mystic Mountain forge make them on TH-cam; but i am sure the pattern is out there. Might be able to fine the pattern on " anvilfire.com

My pleasure. Glad you liked it.

Yes. i have used cinnamon. cloves. nutmet. and other spices. they work great. and each has their own color. Thanks Scott.

Thank you for your kind words.

You have a great perspective. Thank you for sharing this

Same as Native American tribes. You MAY NOT sell Native American Arts and Crafts unless you are a REGISTERED ethnic member of a tribe.

This one is made of 1095 carbon steel. With a differential temper. So soft at the spine, and about as hard as a metal file at the edge.

@@tombrown879 Damn, alright good to know, thank you.

@@armaliteslungsentinal7352 just a note. Don't get hung up on steel when you see rope cutting. As I can do this with a unhardened piece of mild steel. It has more to do with edge geometry and how sharp the edge is also the angle of swing. 1095 will hold this edge well. But there are many other superior steels. Such as W2, 01, D2, and 52100 to name a few. Also lots of newer "super steels" used for blade making. If you get the chance. Check out ""Bladesport cutting competitions "". Great test of steel, heat treat and tempering, edge geometry, sharpness, edge holding ability, and user's accuracy.

@@tombrown879 Hell yea. Thanks for the info brother

I am glad I was able to impart or improve a skill. And thanks for the advice on the editing of some of my videos.

Haha. You know what. I actually DID sell it and 11 of my other Toyota's last month. But still have the 60 series.

@@tombrown879 dammm what a bummer lol

Thank you.

Thank you Steven. I am glad that it is of some use to you. Thanks for watching.

Philip. Traditionally the inner bark from a silver birch tree was scraped out and turned into a powder to make pigment it is a reddish orange Hue. It can be used dry but is normally process with either linseed oil or sometimes it is boiled down in water or oil until it becomes a slimy paste. When it dries it will stay in there pretty well. I have had pretty good luck with doing the same thing with find charcoal powder. I have seen folks use acrylic paints which can take up to a week or better to dry but leave a very nice finish and will almost completely fill in the carving marks. A lot of the ones that I do are black or other colored 100% India permanent ink.

​@@tombrown879 very helpful, thank you for the good description.

Thank you. Glad I could help.

Thank you. Hope you got some use out of it.

Thanks. I have been forging and making knifes for over 40 years. Have always loved the Sami Knifes and carving. have been learning from many great carvers over the last 3-4 years. try getting on The "Art of Sami carving" this sight is " only for carving" on Facebook. Many great folks on there. I still have plans to make sore antler carving vids in the future. just busy .

Thank you lyla. I will try to improve on this.

Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Also, this vid is very relaxing to watch (while learning something new). Edit: Double typed a word. Fixed.

@@tombrown879 Informative and relaxing to watch. As a Bob Ross fan, I approve of your video, and see nothing to improve upon.

@@karneskelot4780 next time I will try to make a point to add a happy little tree at some point. haha thanks for the kind words.

any tight grained wood will look good. loose grain will soak in pigment and your lines may not seem as clear. this will also go for dark woods. unless you can come up with a light colored pigment. if it is a very hard/brittle wood, maybe such as a brittle ebony, then you may have better luck with the prosses that is normally used on the antler. i will hopefully be making a vid about this soon. but the lines are cut in both directions at an angle to make a " V " groove for each line. hope this helps. good luck.

Thank you very much.

@@tombrown879 I am going to kolrose a kuksa I have just carved as a christmas present, well I will as soon as my hands recover from carving the damn thing seasoned sugar maple is not the most forgiving to work entirely by hand :)

Hopefully I will be making the antler video soon. Aug. Or Sept.

Hopefully I will be making the antler video soon. Either in August or September. I was hoping to get it done earlier this summer but just did not happen

@@tombrown879 Hey Tom, That would be great! I hope to do a little experimenting with some of my bone carvings, as well as a couple of birch boxes and panels that I have on-hand. I think it will work at least as well as the inks, but because it is just oil holding the pigment in the grooves, and you can't burnish the bone in the same way you can wood to close up the grooves, it may not hold as well (or I need to make deeper grooves?).

Thanks Oliver. I really Need to take the camera on more trips to make more videos. Really want to do a full blizzard run video next winter sometime.

@@tombrown879 Oh mate most definitely. Winter trips are too much fun