[Woodcarver] Bark carving question - fantasy houses

[dick carter]

>From: "Merrilee Johnson" <merrihat at hotmail.com>

>HAve fun with it!  Oh and use old knives or gouges if you have them - I 
>sort of yucked up my favorite knife with the sad and grit.
>Merrilee


FWIW
I bought an inexpensive (read cheap) set of Stanley chisels at 'Wally-World' 
and
use them for the general roughing-out/cleaning-up on the bark. These are the 
plastic handled
sets of 4 that go for around $10. Once the roughing-out is done, the bark 
doesn't have as
much sand & grit. The chisels have to be resharpened for first time use & 
often during the
roughing-out, but it doesn't involve using the 'good' tools. (Plus you get 
experience in sharpening)
FWIW


Dick Carter
>From the Manadnock area of NH
rhc511 at hotmail.com
Please check-out my stuff at:
http://www.picturetrail.com/cartersstuff

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