Wood Carving Tips - BeaverCraft Tools

Bushcraft is a captivating outdoor skill, encompassing various techniques and knowledge essential for thriving in the wilderness. Whether you are an experienced bushcrafter or just starting on your journey to self-reliance in the great outdoors, one tool is paramount – the bushcraft knife. When venturing into the great outdoors, a reliable bushcraft knife can be your most valuable tool. In this comprehensive guide, we...

Woodcarving is an exciting hobby that can be fun, rewarding, and relaxing. But before you dive into this creative activity, it is better to learn some basics.

In any craft, there are tools that are optional and those you can’t work without. If you are into wood design, beginner or professional, one basic tool you can’t really escape is a whittling knife. Therefore, a whittling knife purchase is a very important decision for any wood carving workshop. So today I made a list of high-quality products you might want to consider...

Do you want your knives and tools to last a long time and be reliable and easy to use? We have prepared a simple guide to help you choose basic wood carving tools and not be disappointed.

A strop is a comfortable leather surface for finishing the tool's blade. Unlike honing and sharpening, which remove parts of the metal edge, stropping aligns the burrs without removing much metal from the blade's surface.

It’s impossible to describe in a nutshell what a draw knife is. There are many varieties of this two-handed carpentry tool, and each of them deserves a separate description. Initially, such a knife was intended for removing bark from tree trunks, over time, other functions became available to carpenters. Modern models are able to cut workpieces quickly, handle convex and concave surfaces carefully, and...

Artistic wood carving is a delicate process that requires special wood carving tools. Today, woodcarving is becoming popular among connoisseurs of arts and crafts again. Novice woodcarvers do not have to acquire all the variety of tools that experienced craftsmen and experts work with. It is enough to have a basic set of tools for the first steps in mastering this woodworking art. In...

Hey, our dear carving friend! We are glad to see you here! If you're reading this, then you are interested in the practice of polishing, and this is very commendable! After all, a good master always has well-groomed tools. So let's start with the useful information we have prepared for you! Read with pleasure! What Is A Buffing Compound? Knife buffing compounds are compounds...

Hello fellow wood carvers to be! If you have come across our post, you might be considering to try wood carving as your next hobby. As it usually is when starting to learn a new craft, you need the right kind of equipment and material. When it comes to learning how to work with wood, the essential tool you must have with you is...

Being a beginner is tough in any field of interest. It’s tough for a bunch of reasons: some people don’t like to look foolish or as if they don’t know things, some people are too shy to ask questions, some are afraid of starting anew. What would support anybody in this situation is other people being friendly, welcoming and answering those questions or even...

Great News! BeaverCraft Made a Paddle Strop for Spoon Knife Sharpening! This strop for sharpening spoon knives is multi-functional and aims to keep your blades at peak performance. The strop is a versatile professional hook knives sharpening and honing system. The double-sided strop is divided into 2 parts – leather strop and sandpaper strop. The leather side is used for polishing, the replaceable sandpaper side –...

There are only two things that are indeed crucial for carving hobby, and they are proper tools and proper wood. Everything else is very important but manageable whereas these two things guarantee you the experience you’re looking for. That’s why there are so many articles on these topics, that’s why people ask a lot of questions about this all the time. And that’s a...

Sometimes, when you begin doing something new, you stop in your tracks and go back because of one fear. The fear to fail, do something wrong, look stupid in front of somebody else or yourself. These thoughts can hit hard and stop you from enjoying the thing that can be your next masterpiece.  It is natural to doubt yourself when you start a new...

Carving is a quite diverse hobby that offers people the opportunity to do exactly what they like and how they like. You can choose different wood types that are more up to your taste with color, texture or look and you can choose various types of tools to create the needed lines on the wooden surface. Because of that it’s extremely interesting to practice...

Three questions from a beginning carver - Woodcarving The more you do something and learn about it, the more you understand that you know nothing about it. It’s not that weird to acknowledge that this concerns everything people may do, including wood carving. There always will be some issues unanswered, some moments so subjective that everybody has their own opinion or doesn’t have any....