Toni if you get to see this i can understand why you like carving. I used a little carving logic on the second tote and o la la it was great to shape the top back end of the tote. Still used the rasps though.
Well... carving is a different way of shaping wood, more silent (not always) and absorbing, but rasps are not forbidden at all, in fact I use them at certain point to blurr the shape so I can see it better. I know that this sentence seems not to make sense but that's the only way I have to explain it