BeaverCraftWood Carving Knife for Detail C17P - Sloyd Chip Carving Knife Carbon Steel - Whittling Knives for Beginners and Professionals - Wood Whittling Tools Woodworking Palm Chisel

Well made and very sharp.

YEEEEEEE HAW

I like the shape but it don't sharpen well

Man I love this knife, I just wish it was sharper. Maybe if it was a flat grind.

I keep coming back to Beavercraft. I've only been carving for a few months, but I've been very pleased with their quality. They're a great value for the cost, and great if you want to try carving without spending a ton of money on knives. They're nicely sharpened, right out of the box, and hold an edge nicely even under heavy use.

Great little palm knife. Definitely gives you different advantages. I love the design. I enjoy all my BeaverCraft tools I own! They always arrive nice and sharp!

This knife was purchased because it had a curved blade design however I spent many hours modifying it to my liking. The bevel was reshaped so the blade angle wasn’t so tall. Most of my carving knives are a flat grind and this felt bulky and very odd trying to use it as a skew tool . Blade thickness is 2 mm and I reground the cutting angle as well as the thickness of the spine. The result flattened the grind and made the knife feel way less bulky. The wooden palm handle has a flat side that rests against the palm of my hand and I radiused the corners so it felt smoother to my palm. Also sanded and smoothed the handle and added a few coats of tru oil to finish it off . Final modification was to grind the barb off the heel end of the cutting blade so i was less likely to cut myself during use and sharpening. After all the hours shaping and refining the blade and palm handle I ended up purchasing a Flexcut 5/16” angle skewer anyway hoping it fits my needs better. As it came from the factory it was not very useful to me . I would suggest this tool would be more usefull with a thinner blade with and flatter grind with the barb on the heel modified . I extensively reworked this tool.

I knew this was a THICC, beginner blade. As a fun, side project I wanted to see if I could tune it up a bit. I was successful, but before I show you how I did that we need to cover the fact that I took off a star.Why did I take off the star? Because I will go to my grave believing that they tried to mislead me about the handle. Contrary to how it is advertised, the handle is asymmetrical.In spite of the handle being asymmetrical, Beavercraft claims that this handle is for lefties and righties. "Each and Every person on the whole, heckin' planet will find it comfortable." This alone is a ridiculous claim...Maybe you don't think it's ridiculous. If that's the case, I would accuse you of being a right-handed person with no empathy and absolutely no exposure to, "left-handed," tools. But I'll just assume that you're on my side and know that using a left-handed pair of scissors with your right hand is quite uncomfortable. On top of the ridiculous claim, the pictures avoid showing this asymmetrical handle for what it is.It's the combination that I really have a problem with. The claim that everyone will find an asymmetrical tool equally comfortable regardless of which side you hold it on, and pictures that obscure the aforementioned imbalance.Why did Beavercraft go with such a weird handle? Well, it's the same handle as their other palm gouges. I'll respect your intelligence and assume you know why having just a single, handle type for all the palm tools is an effective manufacturing tactic and skip to the part where I claim that it's a completely fair decision to use the wonky handle the way they did-- especially for the price and quality of the tool.The issue is the gaslighting and the lack of transparency concerning their Streamlining decision. I hope they take my retaliation of giving this four stars instead of five seriously... 🤓NOW TO THE FUN PART!!!I want this thing to be thinner and actually comfortable for a left-handed freak. So with a $20 diamond stone and a bunch of sandpaper, I make it happen.This takes hours! I don't have a belt sander. Mostly I just have hand tools. I turn on Netflix and spend quite a while thinning each side of the blade over a few sessions. I remove the Flat-Grind Bevel and shape it into a slimmer, concave shape. I want it dead flat, but I'm just doing this every now and then over a period of weeks to mix up my carving time. "Slimmer," is plenty good enough.Sanding down the handle goes by much more quickly. I turn it into a pistol grip... a SYMMETRICAL, pistol grip 😉Then I take the edge through a 300,600, and 1000 sharpening. Strop it like crazy. Catches on my fingernail and cuts through paper just fine.The steel and everything about the blade is fantastic for the price! I'd be buying their stuff all the time if they made variations of their tools that were half as THICC.Thanks for reading!