The Wood Bee Carver has always been fascinated with whittling and knives since childhood and has blended these interests into a lifelong enjoyment of shaping a piece of wood using a sharp knife as well as making knives for the Whittle-Carving process. A part of this enjoyment has been searching at flea markets, yard sales and antique stores for old pocket knives, junk knives  and antique knives that could be salvaged to be transformed into carving knives. The key was to find knife blades that had the functional purpose of being salvaged, reshaped and sharpened into a blade suitable for carving purposes and not for collectible value.

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