BeaverCraft S13 Best Wood Carving Knives Review

For every amateur there’s a great temptation to start their journey on the way to mastering carving with the help of some basic set, that’s usually called “best wood carving knives for beginners”. Paradoxically, many of such knives, gouges, strops are useless for them and get covered with dust on the shell “Once I may need you”.  To avoid it, here’s a guide to define only essential best wood carving tools, which would help every beginner to dive into the wood carving world.

BEST WOOD CARVING KNIVES

A standard set of an average European carver includes V-tools, gouges, and chisels, while for an American an additional knife (for instance, a wood carving hook knife) is also necessary. It’s difficult for a beginner to choose the best wood carving knife among the variety of different sizes and shapes. But it’s quite enough to buy a general carving knife and a detailed knife.

GENERAL CARVING KNIFE

It’s the most basic and useful tool for almost any type of carving. To make whittling for beginners more comfortable straight cutting edge should be parallel to the handle.  

DETAIL KNIFE

This knife is not as basic as the previous one but still takes its place among top-rated wood carving tools. Because the structure is great for working on tight and small pieces. Its main purpose is to make your carving more exquisite and refined. Consequently, it has a smaller blade. And, again, the shorter it is, the more comfortable it is in use. Moreover, knives less than 1″, or 25mm with a tight end would be perfect. Though, there’re also a huge variety of knives types. So you can also buy one with a longer blade with a sharp point at the end. For amateurs, the construction with a straight edge is preferred, as well as in the general carving knife.

SPOON KNIFE.GOUGE

In general, a gouge is a sort of chisel, so what’s the difference between these tools? A chisel with its flat cutting edge would stick after digging in wood carving wood. While the curved edge of a gouge is designed to do this work properly and make smooth grooves without any extra efforts, removing unwanted wood from a flat surface. Among other advantages of using a gouge, you’ll get an opportunity of stop-cutting round objects and carving throughout trenches and grooves. In this short review, you can find some information about where to buy wood carving tools.

BEAVERCRAFT WOOD CARVING KNIFE KIT.

It is a great way for beginners to start with their new hobby. As an experienced carver, I’ve been working with wood for a quite long period of time, though not with tools for carving wooden spoons. This set was a surprising discovery for me. Because for such a reasonable price you’ll get extreme sharpness of blades and high quality of the tools’ construction. However, it allowed me to get acquainted with the trade from the very first hours after purchasing.

High-carbon steel blade. Wood carving knives arrive razor sharp while you can strop them with the leather stropping included in the box. So you can control the state of the knife edges to put it fine. However the handle of a detail whittling knife was too small for me, so I’d prefer another shape, but I would never count it as a disadvantage. I have huge hands!

OVERALL

In general, I’m happy with my new tools, which are clear also for my family. Now I spend all days long by carving and creating new small masterpieces such as spoons and bowls. It’s a fun way to embody new ideas and also to bring some light and love to my wife and friends. I literally recovered after my… my “crisis”, the lack of ideas and creativity, got my inspiration back and now I feel like I’m young again, when I loved this trade. I’m actually happy to get this passion for art and even to try new techniques, such as chip carving.

The wood carving set provides you with all the necessary stuff to rediscover your love for the art of wood carving and to try something new.

The kit includes a sloyd knife, a chip carving knife, a hook knife, a leather strop, and a polishing compound. For dessert, you’ll get some FREE eBooks on your email after purchase: “How to prevent the knives from the rust”, “5 easy steps to sharpen hook knife” and “How to sharpen the woodcarving knife”. You can also buy additionally some wood carving accessories such as a kuksa knife (a hook knife), bowl carving tools, tools for carving wooden spoons, with which Ukrainian masters from BeaverCraft would provide to give you an opportunity to try kuksa carving, create wood bowls, cups, spoons, and other round-edged things.

SPOON KIT ITSELF

 SLOYD KNIFE (also: straight knife). A 3.15-inch blade and ergonomic handle serve for roughing wood out and whittling. The blade is hardened to necessary firmness for such purposes. I personally like it a lot.

RAZOR-SHARP HOOK KNIFE. Taking into account customers’ feedbacks, BeaverCraft improved the handle into a bit thicker, longer and comfortable one. As for the rest, it’s still a great solution for spoon carving and green woodworking. The extreme sharpness of the blade is an amazing feature that allows you to start carving right after unpacking.  

DETAIL KNIFE. Best Wood Carving Knives.

A must-have for transforming your carving into a fascinating artwork. It’s the best decision if you want to make your piece more delicate, to embellish it with leaves or tree branches, lines, and curves, and other tiny details.

LEATHER STROP + POLISHING COMPOUND. An essential part of the kit, if you want to keep your tools nice and sharp, shiny and bright. This what I was talking about above.

BEAVERCRAFT SPOON CARVING KIT.

S13 is one of the most useful and affordable sets of basic tools for every beginner and professional. It provides high-quality tools, which supplement each other, and at the same time are significantly practical with its razor-sharp high-carbon blades, handles from ash wood, covered with natural linseed oil. It is definitely worth investing, if you aim to master wood carving in order to make chip carves, different stuff like cups, bowls, spoons, kuksa carvings and simply to feel the fascination by working with wood.

For some users, it was a motivation to recall their skills and projects and to re-engage in wood carving. I highly recommend it for every beginner, who has been looking for a nice basic set to start with their carving, as well as for professionals, who are in search of top whittling tools to be tested.