I think it’s made with walnut and finished with walnut oil. Started with a blank I bought from flexcut
You can do it. Get a saw. Bass wood is pretty soft so it will be annoying but 100% doable. I do it all the time as I also have wrong sized wood and no power tools. Coping saw is good or I also got a Japanese style saw that works pretty well too
HACHIEMON Japanese Saw RYOBA MINI 180mm for DIY and Hobby https://a.co/d/7DkeL0R
Good call on the gloves. I should have said that first.
Glad i could help. It’s an awesome hobby that take very little to start but is pretty rewarding. Check out some videos on YouTube by a guy Doug Linker. He gives tutorials for a lot of great beginner projects. That’s where I started.
Also, shameless plug. Check out this community
https://sh.itjust.works/c/whittling
It small and just getting started but so far, everyone is super chill
Sorry for not seeing this sooner. I haven’t gotten a hang of the best way to check if anyone replies to comments in Lemmy yet. Your post is the perfect starting wood. Basswood is soft and cheap so you can make cool things and practice pretty easily. I wouldn’t use a pairing knife though. Not to say you can’t but u might wreck that pairingknife. You can get cheap semi decent knives from companies like flexcut or morakniv and then move from there. My first couple knives specifically for wood were a whittlin jack (I think this is by flexcut) and a morakniv 120. Both about 40$ and still hold up great. The first knife I actually used was a Victorinox Swiss Army knife and was just something I had around the house. I think it was 20$. Not built for whittling but will work fine. Honestly use whatever your comfortable with. Once you get into it you will get a better idea of what you want in a knife and n apiece of wood. Happy to help with any advice if u need any. Not an expert but can give you any tips I’ve picked up since I’ve started.
Pick up whittling. This what I did when I was struggling in early covid. The start up cost is low and u can get as creative as u want. Im not very creative so make spoons and give them to family and friends but also make little figures like gnomes, wizards, rabbits, fish.
If u got wood and a semi decent knife, u can start right now
Awesome video by Doug linker on how to make custom blade covers. Probably going to be my next smaller project as right now I have styrofoam on a bunch of nice fixed blades. Pretty janky and not very safe.
Will report back on how it works out
Also Doug Linker is awesome and his vids are great for beginners
I live in a big city and can’t exactly snap a branch of a random tree or real pick up random sticks from people’s backyards without getting some looks.
I’ve ordered off Amazon and Etsy in the past for basswood and walnut that was not bad.
Im just curious where other people get resources?
I have bought a shit ton of random knives (Helvie, drake, GEC, flexcut, morakniv etc) based on recos from subreddits and youtube videos and I have to say despite how cool they are, I think my favorite go tos are a Victorinox tinker that I redid the edge on and a Remington whittler I bought on eBay because the price was right.
I’m going to keep posting random shit I’ve made until we gain some momentum. Feed back welcome. I’m not very good at this and mostly just imitate other things I see online while working on technique.
Here’s some other stuff I made
Was a big lurker on reddit but I guess no one is going to join a community with no posts.
I might start posting random shit here until people show up
I have been accessing the instance using Firefox and it’s been working great but I wanted to try to log in with safari because that’s the only mobile browser where I can add a website to my Home Screen.
I enter my login information and hit login and then I get the spinning circle that spins indefinitely.
Has anyone else had this problem?
This was one of my favorite subs from Reddit where I could always keep up with what’s going on in the neighborhood.
Idk if anyone made the jump to Lemmy but if any of you did, I’m hoping we can have something similar here
Anyone got any news they want to share?
I was part of r/whittling before rexxit and it was my one of my favorite places to browse. I didn’t see anything comparable to that on Lemmy yet so I decided to take a stab at making the first.
Here’s a things I made
