How To Make Wood Carving Gouges
Hold the chisel back flat on the wood.
How to make wood carving gouges. Take the gouge to be honed and cut a concave or positive profile into the wood. This serves a few purposes. The best way to sharpen wood chisels hook knives as well as sharpening gouges or any other curved blades is to use the sharpening tool that matches the shape of the curve and stroke the blade gently as with any other carving.
The end of the tool resembles a common spoon because of the short curve at the end of the blade. Then two antiques so no numbers. A gouge is basically a chisel with the cutting edge bent into a curve.
Carving tool sharpening is a gentle process so do not use force. The shape of this tool raises the handle angle significantlyto almost 90. With this knife you can remove a lot of wood quickly and it works great when carving into the wood with a flat surface.
Get creative with your thumbnails. Using the exact dimensions of the gouge as your guide be careful not to widen the trough further than the gouge is wide. Gouges remove excess wood quickly especially from a flat surface where the corners of a flat chisel would dig in and get stuck.
A gouging knife is designed to carve grooves in a way that the tool doesnt dig into the wood. Pare thin wooden slices to flatten the recess floor. The One number on blade is weep number.
In the first photo youll see a Pfeil Swiss made carving gouge. A 5 I use for removing background and shaping some patterns. It is actually very easy.
