[Woodcarver] tool condition

[Ivan Whillock]

Nosed and bullnosed are the same.  A thumbnail gouge is different. The
carvers of Austria-Germany typically nose their gouges.  When, in carving in
the round, you make a plunge cut, say, around the bridge of the nose, the
wings back feature of the tool lets you make that cut without scarring the
wood around the eye or cheek, because the wings do not plunge into the wood
farther than and center of the tool.  In relief carving, a tool must be
tilted back in order to keep it from undercutting the form.  The wings back
feature of the tool, then, lets you make a level cut with the tool tilted.
Often the tool is spun to create rounded forms.  The wings back feature
allows you to spin the tool without  the corners of the tool snagging the
wood.  In addition, you can make a cut up to a 90 degree angle without
leaving a gap between the top of the tool and the bottom of it.

A thumbnail gouge is kind of a cross between a gouge, veiner and V tool.
Don't have any of them; never used one.  There is also a "thumbnail tool"
used for modeling clay.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "dick carter" <rhc511 at hotmail.com>
To: <woodcarver at six.pairlist.net>
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Woodcarver] tool condition



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> >From: "Ivan Whillock" <carve at whillock.com>

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> >Tools can come sharpened three ways: squared, wings forward, wings back

> >(nosed.)

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> Ivan, "nosed"... is this the same as 'thumbnail'? And where does

'bullnose'

> fit in?

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> Also how about the use of 'thumbnail' gouges...where would these be used?

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