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Sloyd Carving Knives — Primary Tool
№40160
Hyde Tools 40160 3-1/8" Sloyd Knife
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MODEL 40160 · SKU H-40160
· UPC 079423401602
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Documented for Equip a Carving Class — The Complete Step-by-Step Guide.
Official feature
Extra-sharp high-carbon steel knife for woodcarving and general purpose cutting. Hardwood handles
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✕DO NOT FORCE THE FIT
- Not a bowl-hollowing tool — concave interior cuts need the hook knife's bent edge (not sold on this store), and prying a straight blade around a hollow just breaks edges and spoons.
- Not a struck tool: hammer this hardwood handle or batten this spine and you have destroyed a carving knife — the 40210, three pegs over, is the only knife in the line built to be hit.
- Not a sheet-goods knife: drawing cuts across leather, rubber, or fabric on a bench belongs to the square-point patterns (industrial-knives line) whose blunt tips can't stab the bench or the off hand.
- Not a utility-blade substitute — it will open a box, but a maintained carving edge spent on tape and cardboard is a strop session spent for nothing.
Jobs this tool does
EXACT JOB METHODS FOR HYDE №40160
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Equip a Carving ClassOPEN JOB GUIDE →
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Maintain Carbon-Steel Trade Knife EdgesOPEN JOB GUIDE →
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Rough Out Green-Wood BlanksOPEN JOB GUIDE →
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Sharpen and Strop a Carving KnifeOPEN JOB GUIDE →
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How the pros run it
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Use all of it
The buyer who strokes with the middle two inches of a 3-1/8" blade bought the wrong knife; heel-to-tip shear is the point. Downhill always: long strokes punish grain misreads harder — a full-length cut against rising grain dives deep before you can stop it. Choke up deliberately for detail (finger on spine, thumb on work) instead of switching knives mid-thought. Power comes from the body, not the wrist: chest-lever and shoulder for roughing, wrist only for steering. Sharp is a safety property: the force a dull long blade needs is force you cannot steer.
Asked at the counter
BUYER QUESTIONS ANSWERED BEFORE THE CART, NOT AFTER THE RETURN
Why buy the 3-1/8" over the 2-5/8"?
Stroke. More edge per shearing cut is the whole offer — roughing, long paring runs, bigger blanks, bigger hands. If your work is small and detail-heavy, buy the shorter one instead; length is the only difference between them, and this store won't pretend otherwise.
Is this the right first sloyd?
For an adult who'll carve full-size projects, yes, comfortably. For a student, a child, or a detail carver, the 40060's control argument wins the first purchase.
How sharp does it arrive?
Working-sharp, with the pattern's standard expectation that a carver takes it to carving-keen on stone and strop and keeps it there by stropping (expectation from one independent report, flagged above).
Can it carve the inside of a spoon bowl?
No straight knife can — that's hook-knife territory, and this store sells no hook knife. Plan on the two-tool kit.
What's the blade width and thickness?
Unpublished . Hyde prints the length; this store prints what Hyde prints.
Rust care?
High-carbon steel: wipe dry after every green-wood session, oil before storage. The edge that cuts like this rusts like this; the two facts are one fact about the steel.
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Crew & facility ordering
Model & SKUModel 40160 · SKU H-40160 · UPC 079423401602
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Specs & documentation
Full spec sheet
- catalog product name
- 3-1/8" Sloyd Knife — OFFICIAL EXACT MODEL
- official family claim
- Extra-sharp high-carbon steel knife for woodcarving and general purpose cutting. Hardwood handles. — OFFICIAL FAMILY CLAIM APPLICABLE TO EXACT LISTED MODEL
- official product name
- Sloyd Wood Carving Knives — OFFICIAL EXACT VARIANT
- official variant identity
- 40160 — 3-1/8" — OFFICIAL EXACT VARIANT
$27.81SKU H-40160