[Woodcarver] Double beveled chisels..as recommended by Chris Pye

[Ivan Whillock]

 I am reading about these bevels where is the "inside bevel and the
> outside one?  Is it the same as the secondary bevel?
No!  The secondary bevel is an additional, shorter bevel sometimes added to
the outside bevel.

And just for
> clarification "right side up" would be the "normal way the gouge was meant
> to be used while "upside down" means to turn it over - correct??

No.  Using the tool upside down would be trying to carve with the handle:)
The point I try to make is that a gouge has functions many beginners never
use because they think only of the tool in one of its functions--what you
call the "normal" function, to make concave cuts in the wood.  To get away
from that way of thinking about a gouge, I don't speak of "right side up" or
"upside down" (or normal and abnormal) but of the three functions of a
gouge, the concave function, the plunge function and the convex function.
Held one way the gouge will make a concave groove, turn it over and it will
make a convex form..  Held more perpendicular it will make stopcut ark.  A
tool is right side up or upside down, depending on the cut you want to make.
If you want to make a concave cut and it makes a convex one instead, the
tool us upside down.  Turn it over and it will make a concave one.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Merrilee Johnson" <merrihat at hotmail.com>
To: <woodcarver at six.pairlist.net>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 6:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Woodcarver] Double beveled chisels..as recommended by Chris
Pye


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>    As I am reading about these bevels where is the "inside bevel and the
> outside one?  Is it the same as the secondary bevel? And just for
> clarification "right side up" would be the "normal way the gouge was meant
> to be used while "upside down" means to turn it over - correct??  Thanks
for
> more explaination!
> Merrilee
>
>
>
> >>>>Some carvers put a secondary bevel on their tools to strengthen the
edge
> >>>>for hard wood.  >>>>Others find it easier to hone the small secondary
> >>>>bevel rather than the whole bevel.  >
>
>  >>>I do use an inside bevel on most of my gouges, which, as Dick Carter
> quoted, makes the tool >>>more versatile--the edge holds up better in hard
> wood, and it can be more easily steered when >>>used "upside down."
> >
> >I used quotes around upside down because I teach that a gouge has three
> >functions--a concave function, a convex function and a plunge
> >function--thus the terms "right side up" or "upside down" depend on what
> >function you are performing with the tool.
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