Spoon/crook knives

[marcelxl]

Eveniing all!

I have several frosts spoon/crook knives amd whilst I have never given them any real pasty I have found them a struggle. I can concede that it might well be down to my technique but I have seen it mentioned a few times that the knife needs work to get the best out of it.
Can anyone shed some light on the best way to go pls!?

I have one pretty standard one, a double edge one and somewhere I have a third, much less crooked one (if that makes sense!?)

Thanks in advance.

Marc

[beasty]

i got one of these a few days ago

it was quite dull when i got it but sharp enough so i only needed to strop it till it could take hairs off.
i just have a piece of veg tan leather glued to a piece of wood with some compound on it and followed the angle of the bevels.
I made my 1st spoon out of my xmas tree today and it worked great

[forestwalker]

The Frosts one are, how shall I say this, not the best iof breed. Acutally, they are slightly better than none. I think Robin Wood has one that he ground down into a decent one, but the stock ones are junk.

I think there are some threads on the subject here, and many, many more on the Bodger forum.

Edit; the book is Willie Sundquists book, but that is out of print AFAIK.

[Baggy]

Hiya

getting them sharp...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDjGbx7jIt0

[MartiniDave]

I find they aren't brilliant as delivered, but an hours work will make them very useable. A bit of wet and dry on a length of old broom stick works wonders.

Dave