I've been trying to get into greenwood carving. I did this with a stanley blade and a tiny 6mm curved palm gouge. I need a hook knife for sure, that gouge was painful to use.
I bet the bowl will get a great patina after a few years of use
I wasn't familiar with those tools. Didn't know the name for the gouge:
And hadn't heard of or seen a hook knife, but I can see how it'd be very useful:
Anyway, nice looking scoop!
Green woodworking has some of the goofiest tools. Some of my favourite discoveries since I started going down this rabbit hole has been the "twca cam" (yes those are all the letters, it's Welsh). This seems to be a large two handed hook knife for hogging out large ladles and bowls.
Another crazy tool is the roubo shoulder knife. Hard to find it being used these days but I believe the purpose was to cut clean straight lines in tough or uneven grain. Adds a lot of stability and force to the cut. I'm thinking it would be mostly used for deep stop cuts in chip carving, so technically not a green woodworking tool I guess, but still cooky as hell.
Very nice!
Still looks really good!