[Woodcarver] Help again with tools!

[gjpat at cyberbeach.net]

Hi Chris;

Sorry to hear about your problems with your eBay purchase.
Here's some suggestions..
I would advise you to contact Jan Oegema again since you got a knife from 
him, he would be able to make some suggestions as to what tools you will 
actually need to do the type of woodcarving you want to do.
Actually to start, you could most likely do any small in the round animal 
carvings with just a knife which you already have, Jan again could most 
likely sell you appropriately  sized wood for this instead of you having to 
laminate 3 or 4 layers of 3/4" wood together.

Another suggestion closer to home and right in Collingwood Ontario Canada 
is you could contact the Wood Chippers who meet on Tuesdays at the 
Collingwood Leisure Time Club, this is a 50 and over club I believe but 
someone there would surely be able to assist you in woodcarving tool selection.
I also believe a lady by the name of Ellen Burke is the instructor there, 
so if you check your phone listings for Collingwood I think, E. Burke is 
the only one listed.
Hope this is of some help.

Gordon Paterson
Dowling, Ont.



At 11:23 AM 1/30/2008 -0500, you wrote:


>Hi Ya Everyone,

>Just wanted to say Hi! Hope all is well in your neck of the woods :)   I 

>think I have mentioned in the past on the Woodcarver Digest that I had 

>bought some carving tools from Ebay.  Well as it turned out when they 

>finally got here, all the people who warned me of this were right?  They 

>finally came and are terrible tools.  It is a set made by Hawk, cheap 

>Chinese junk I believe.  The tools are made of very very rough steel which 

>I have found aren't sharpening very well.  I am back to the beginning 

>again due to the waiting and the very poor tools. So I am wondering if I 

>can get some help again as good tools make good carvings?  If so, What 

>tools should I get to start trying to carve with?      Sharp tools being 

>the key to good carvings.  I am not sure which size of gouges, skews or V 

>tools I will need and possibly a stab knife and chip knife for relief.  I 

>don't think I will be doing any large carvings.  I would like to do some 

>small to medium size relief carvings and some "in the round" animal 

>carvings that I have some patterns for that will only be about 5 to 6 

>inches long and I believe require layering of 3/4" boards of 3 to 4 layers.

>     I guess the major problem for me is which sizes of tools to 

> get.  Should I be getting detail tools for the work I want to do for now?

>Again I am very confused as to where to go now as this debacle from eBay 

>has definitely set me back and have to start all over again. All I have is 

>the very awesome Ron Wells bench knife I got from Jan such a great 

>knife.  I don't have alot of money to spend as I have been off work doing 

>the full time Daddy thing with my son :)

>I hope everyone who helped before will give me pointers once again

>    Hope you can get me started...AGAIN ;)

>

>Chris Huggins

>Collingwood, Canada

>

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