The Race Knife

It's a knife. It's a gouge. It's a fun way to add decoration to your furniture.

The best thing about hand-tool woodworking for me is this: Once you learn to (really) sharpen and use chisels and planes, then the learning curve for other edge tools becomes shockingly short.

When my race knife showed up in the mail a couple weeks ago, Megan Fitzpatrick asked: "What's that?"