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

[Ray Mighells]

On 9/25/2012 11:03 PM, Ivan Whillock wrote:

> .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.)

>

        That is a ditto from me.