swivel Knife lessons

[Fathers Son]

My son is looking for some good practice patterns to improve his swivel knife skills. By the way it won't hurt dad to practice more too. If anyone has some good patterns if you could please post them or let me know a place to download them from.

Thanks and Happy Thankgiving

Fathers Son

[Butch]

I enjoyed doing this one of a Dove

Butch

[ClayB]

Paul Burnett shares a very good lesson on swivel knife use in his first newsletter. All his newsletters are available on his website. You'll want to sign up to receive the newsletters and then be sure and read all the back issues. There's some really good stuff in them.

Paul Zalesak, owner of Leather Wranglers has put on several swivel knife contest throughout the country and gets some amazing entries. You can check out what some of these guys can do with a swivel knife here That ought to give you some ideas and inspiration.

[TomSwede]

Tattoo flashart is my fav for finding good pratice with easy to spot lines to carve. I usually google for pics using desired kind of art as prefix and tattoo flash as suffixes, example: eagle tattoo flash renders this page: GOOGLE

Sorry about the Swedish google page. Don't know how to get it in English form.

Ooooohhhh looooove this one, EAGLES HEAD ,saved to HD for future possibilitys.....I shouldn't be doing google now....have others jobs to carve ha ha

Tom

[hidepounder]

It's good practice to copy any pattern and practice cutting it until you can make it look like the original. Be critical.....compare your work to the original and see where your weaknesses are and concentrate on them first. Meanwhile here are some swivel knife patterns you can practice on.

Hope this helps....

Bobby

[ClayB]

It's good practice to copy any pattern and practice cutting it until you can make it look like the original. Be critical.....compare your work to the original and see where your weaknesses are and concentrate on them first. Meanwhile here are some swivel knife patterns you can practice on.

Hope this helps....

Bobby

And when your work looks like Bob's originals, you've got it figured out. (and you can come teach me!)

[ClayB]

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Edited November 27, 2009 by ClayB

[Fathers Son]

Thank you for the responses and the ideas.

Hidepounder-

Could you please offer me an idea on how I could print the last two pieces you posted.

Thanks

Fathers Son

[King's X]

Hidepounder's skull is bad ass, but way to far advance for me. Here is what I use to practice swivel knife cuts. I know that they are elementary, but they are good to get the muscles going and trained.

Just print out the pictures and using tracing paper to copy the lines you want. Resize it to what you need, 4x4 is what I have. I made tapoffs. I grab a piece of scrap wet, tap and cut away.

I have one more that I use, let me see if I can find it and I will post it.

Good luck and Happy Holidays!

[jamesg63]

Try the Coca-Cola logo

[hidepounder]

Thank you for the responses and the ideas.

Hidepounder-

Could you please offer me an idea on how I could print the last two pieces you posted.

Thanks

Fathers Son

Sorry it's taken me so long to respond....I didn't see your post. I'm not real computer savvy but if it were me I would open the photo to it's largest size...then right click and select "save picture as" which should openb a new window in which you can re-name the photo and select a file to save it in. Then you can go the that file, open it and print it. You don't have to save to a file either...you can just save it to your desktop if you want to and then delete it when you're finished.

Hope this helps....

Bobby