[Woodcarver] Help again with tools!

[Donna Menke]

Since I do a lot of little animal carvings I'll put my advice in too. There are 4 tools that I can not do without- and with them I can do just about anything small enough to hold in my hand- like 6":
- very good quality bench knife, 1 1/4" long, flat cutting edge, my Helvies are my favorites
- I like my Ramelson-style palm gouges- those are the ones with the roundish brown handles- in these sizes:
- 1/8" (3mm) veiner #11 or #9
- 3/8" (9mm) gouge #7
- 3/4" (18mm) gouge #3
Hope that helps.
Donna Menke
http://www.woodworks-by-donna.com 
Author: The Ultimate Band Saw Box Book

----- Original Message ----
From: Chris <tooker at rogers.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 10:23:32 AM
Subject: [Woodcarver] Help again with tools!


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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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