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CHIPS OFF THE OL’ BLADE

The past two years I have noticed all sorts of carving taking off in popularity—spoon to folk, chip carving and even relief carving. If you carve, you need something sharp to do it.

Most of the edged tools in this article focus on spoon carving. One tool gets into some detail carving. Because of the number of edged implements reviewed, I will give you my impressions on each company’s lines rather than a lot of detail about the specs, which you can research via the Internet. I have been carving for a number of years now and want to give you a feel

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