I've never been much of one for "digging in wood", though I have been known to use a knife as a drill by spinning the tip back and forth. I never felt like this was particularly tough on the tip. I'd like to experiment with digging into thick wood if possible, as far as shaping bowls and troughs and other concave shapes. But how much stress can something like the DFCG practically take on the tip? The body itself I have complete confidence in, but all knives get thin at the tip and you can apply some serious leverage to it...

So. Any words of wisdom? Preferred grip? Better to stab and pry, or to use the knife basically as a chisel? With a baton? Maybe wrap the handle in a rag to preserve the ResC and allow strikes to the pommel. Better to go in parallel to the grain, or crosswise to sever it? Is tip digging useful enough to even bother? Or is one basically always better off with the scoring system.

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