>>986233>i don't yet have a sharpening stone which sounds like something i should have for this.If you have your knife on you, you should also have a sharpening stone or at the very least some sandpaper. Woodcarving is extremely hard on blades and you need to keep them sharp the entire time. A dull blade is a dangerous blade.
You will also need to learn general woodcarving techniques. If you don't know those, you'll have a bear of a time doing pretty much anything like this. The biggest mistake beginners make is to try removing too much wood with each carve. Instead, you carve small shallow chips. The harder the wood the smaller the chips.
Remember whittling technique videos are a little bit different from woodcarving techniques because people who whittle may not know proper woodcarving techniques. Take the guy in this webm. This is the wrong technique. The strokes are too long and too much wood is being removed at once. There's too much room for mistakes both with the work piece and safety.
