Which knife to carve pumpkin?

[Leemah1]

Which knife will you use to carve the pumpkin?
Will it be the high tech folder or the combat fixed blade?
Myself, it will be the Chicago Cutlery 440A Utility knife.
Cheers,
Gord.

 

[deputy tom]

X-acto knife is what My Daughter used to carve/decorate Our pumpkin.Then I had to re-sharpen it! Thanks Martha Stewart .tom.

 

[Melvin-Purvis]

...Use a "Custom", or at least one of those knives that passes for a custom here at BFC...or use a Randall...

 

[Keith Montgomery]

You know, come to think of it one of those Randall steak knives would probably do a pretty good job of carving a pumpkin.

I use a Henckel paring knife myself.

 

[Perilous Truth]

Bro, it is so funny you started a thread on this. I had a dream a while ago about starting a thread on which knife to use for carving a pumpkin. Haha, this really cracks me up. I was going to use a 25 cent dulled butter knife orange handled (Pumpkin Carving "Knife) my girlfreind bought at walmart. But now, in light of my new aquisition, I think I am going to use my new USMC Ka-Bar.
P.S.
I figured the woman would have known by now not to buy cutlery without asking me. I guess she just figured that an orange pumpkin knife is cuter then a 12 Inch Black Bladed Fighter, Go figure.

 

[R.W.Clark]

No knife at all.

For the big cuts I use an old jig saw blade mounted on a handle, for the more delicate stuff I use a wood carving set.

And yes it takes about 5hrs per pumpkin. I'll see if I can get my scanner to work and show some of them off.

 

[Keith Montgomery]

So Ron, you are a pumpkin artist as well as an artist with steel. Why does that not surprise me?

 

[Howard Wallace]

An old boning knife that has been sharpened many times until the blade is very thin.

 

[R.W.Clark]

Well, I guess.

But the pumpkin makes one heck of a mess when I take it to the grinder.

Hey Paul, how do you get pumpkin to Rc60?

 

[NCBlades]

Last year I used my Pheasant Tail Sebbie last year. Sadly, I sold it off. But, I am getting my new Pheasant Tail this week (hopefully before Haloween). The large Sebenza works great for this
michael

 

[Paul Work]

Don't knock those orange handled "punkin carvers", they work pretty damn good.

Paul

 

[alelser]

I've already carved one, and will have to do another tonight (in Georgia, carved pumpkins on the front stoop rot fast). This year's crop stinks! An average size pumpkin has sides that seem to be about twice as thick as nornal, and hard as rocks! I've asked some friends and they have had the same experience this year. So... tonight I'll attack the bugger with my Buck "beater" sheath knife (don't even know the model number -- that's how bad a beater this one is to me).

Also, I don't recommend using anything too nice. Pumpkin guts will stain the hell out of any metal they come into contact with if allowed to dry in place. Just a heads up.

Happy Halloween!

-Al-

 

[Crayola]

U'll probably just be using some cheapo kitchen knives. Hmm... I have soem Victorinox boning knives though. I'm going to thin a vouple out and use those! WOHOO!!

alelser, here's a tip to making your pumpkin last. Inbetween temper cycles do a cryo-quench in liquid nitrogen. That converts all of the mushinsite to pimkinsite and ups the Rockwell value

 

[Steelhed]

I carved a pumpkin yesterday. Used a Kershaw Ken Onion Richochet folder with a 440V blade. It worked just fine.

 

[alelser]

Thanks Crayola! Can't stop laughing. Probably chop my hand off. Maybe I'll cryo-quench it.

 

[bensano]

actually an A.G. Russell 'Woodswalker"

Works good.

 

[Matches]

Pumpkin carving is great with a Victorinox Swiss Tool,or the Leatherman Wave.You have your regular or serrated blades, and the saws are good as well.The only thing a multi-tool lacks is something to remove all that stringy goo:barf:

 

[DancesWithKnives]

Don't use a slipjoint Boy Scout folder. When I was a kid I was carving a pumpkin with a fixed blade kitchen knife. My mother thought the knife was too large and dangerous so she insisted I switch to the Boy Scout folder. Needless to say, it collapsed at the wrong time and I can still see the scar from the stitches, some 40+ years later. I remember my father telling my mother something like "he's got pretty good judgment when it comes to knives, so in the future let him use what he wants."

 

[thevon]

I used my MT HALO III. The tanto works good for outlining what you are wanting to cut.

 

[Charlie Mike]

DancesWithKnives
Don't use a slipjoint Boy Scout folder.

I have a scar exactly because of that on my ringfinger. My aunt though the carving knife was to big to cut the lid... So the razor shrp edge of my BSA SAK laid joint open to the bone. She told me to wash it under the sink and I could see bone :barf: :barf: :barf: .

This year it'll be the fully serrated "Old School" AFCK.