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   john_c2 | Jan 21, 2021 02:47am | #1

   Jason Lonon. He's a blacksmith who makes fantastic tools. I love his bowl adze. I have a couple of his axes and a sloyd knife too. I can't say enough good things.

   The Pfeil has all the wrong geometry for bowl carving. It would require a lot of work to fix it, and it still wouldn't be great. I have the Narex, and it is extremely mediocre. The difference between it and the Jason Lonon is night and day.

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   johnddo | Jan 21, 2021 09:00am | #3

   Thanks for your help!

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   lat_axe | Jan 21, 2021 04:19am | #2

   GRÄNSFORS are very good - I used one of their gutter adze to make bowls in my green woodworking phase. As JC2 says, the angle of the dangle is critical but the GF adze worked well for me and took a wicked-sharp edge of good resilience. I've not used a gutter adze from other manufacturers, though, to compare them.

   You can use a bent gouge too. In fact, both are useful for different stages of hollowing out a bit of half-log: the adze for the major chopping at the start and the gouge for refining the inside curve as it approaches "finished".

   Some just use the bent gouge, which is slower but you save the price of a good adze. If you want to make loadsa bowls, the adze is worth getting.

   I sold all my green woodworking tools some years ago, returning to cabinetmaking from making the stuff more typical in green woodworking. One advantage of getting a high quality tool is that it will sell second-hand for at least what you paid for it and maybe more, depending on how long you've had it and assuming it's in very good condition. That was the case with my 5 year-old GF stuff, sold on e-bay.

   Lataxe

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   johnddo | Jan 21, 2021 09:00am | #4

   Thanks for your help!

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   carving4clyde | May 07, 2022 06:40pm | #5

   Does anyone have experience with Svante Djarv or Seven Pines Forge (Ted Ferringer) adze?

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   john_c2 | May 08, 2022 05:16pm | #6

   I haven't used either one. But if a Svante Djarv was available, buy it.