[Woodcarver] Is hearing linked to the control of your cuts?

[Ivan Whillock]

.Joe,

I think hearing has a lot to do with it, but so does touch and sight.   
I've always enjoyed the sound of a sharp tool through the wood, but also 
the "feel" of a well-made cut and also the visual pleasure of a curl 
coming off the tool and the clean, shiny surface a a sharp tool leaves 
behind.  As you know, atmosphere also has a lot to do with it for me, 
too.  If any of those ingredients is missing, it is harder to get fully  
absorbed into the process which I think is the key ingredient to 
creativity--being absorbed not in the product but in the process.
Someone once said art is a byproduct.  (Of course it's also good when 
it's a "buy" product, too.)

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