Hello Ivars,just seen your post on the Woodcarving Illustrated forum. Thanks for inviting folks to your group...Cool, I'm the second member so far !

I'm a whittler,carver and make woodcarving knives,as well as sharpen all sorts of  carvin' tools...and of course, I love collecting and using pocket knives. This should be a cool little hang-out !

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A-ha!

Another convert.

Here's a picture of my new little friend. I'm going camping this weekend with my granddaughters and I'll be putting it to the test. I'll let you guys know how it fairs.

Looks like you got a good one there, Robert.

Well done.

I was asked to write a review for a seahorse whittler so I'll give it my best try. I have never owned a seahorse whittler or any wharncliffe blade in my life. I always bought blades relating to outdoor activities.

The case seahorse whittler that I purchased came with stag scales, not the quality of the 60s and 70s, but still very nice stag. The knife came with razor sharp blades, they're thin and adapted to precision cutting.

The knife arrived just in time for a planned camping and fishing trip with my two grandaughters, alot of my good friends and their children. So I figured I'd give this new knife a try on this trip.

On a camping trip like this, there is need for a small pocket knife; opening packages, food preparation, cutting fish lines and so forth. The knife passed all the tests and everyone that saw it fell in love with it.

It's only drawback was when it was time to clean fish. It's not very well suited for this task. I cleaned a few with it so it will get you out a bind if it's the only knife you have with you.

I make walking staffs for fun and as gifts for friends and family. I'm starting to make more and may start selling them and I thought it would be a good idea to carve something into them, like a face or different designs and patterns. It has worked great so far. It carves like a dream. I would encourage anyone wanting to try a new knife pattern to give this one a try. You will be very glad you did!

I take it, then, that it gets a big thumbs up?

Never thought about cleaning fish with one though, but I'll bet it'll do you a great job on the walking sticks.

If you get around to carving some canes, give me a holler...

Cool group!  Whittlers are for some the holy grail of slipjoint collecting. For me as a maker I love the challenge of making one. Here is my rendition of a Case #83 pattern in my dyed and jigged bone.

Thanks Mr. Ken Erickson ! ...thanks to you, I now have to replace my keyboard & monitor from all of the excessive drool to the very sweeeet lookin' Whittler pic you have posted here sir !!!  ; )

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Thanks for the kind comments guys!  I have not done a seahorse for a while. My first whittler was one, not sure if I can dig up a photo or not. I use a lot of ATS-34, CPM154cm and D2 on whittlers.  Here is a a picture of a lockback whittler done in ivory. This is similar to the Case/Bose but with wharncliffe master instead of a clip.

And here is a matching pair of whittlers, one in ivory and one in bone. These are like the Case  #80 pattern.

Bout missed this one.  Locking Wharnie.  Great work, Ken.

Ken,

I do love your whittlers and this is no exception.  Great Work

Someone in this group that is knowledgable in the whittler pattern could list all the different whittler patterns might get some fire going in this group.

Ivan, anyone that knows of some of the patterns can list them. I recently learned of the Ballroom Whittler. A favorite of mine that is seldom seen is the Cotton Sampler Whittler.

The only problem with this is that a whittler needs to only have two major distinctions,  1 - the main blade is at opposite ends with the secondary blades, and 2 - the main blade falls in between the secondaries when closed.

The big task is to try to find all different blade variations, frame styles and backspring configurations.

I mean those that have whittler as part of their name.