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Wood Carving Tools

Wed 28 Oct 2009 - 21:31

Wood Carving Tools
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Thomas_G_Gray]Thomas G Gray

Wood carving tools comes in different styles that depend on shapes, uses and sizes. Before you decide on which tools you acquire it is very important to consider the three basic factors.

Tools are always designed for particular functions. To start with the parting tools have V shapes that are very narrow and smaller in size. The cutting edge is either 40 or 60 inches and in most cases it is used for finishing the corners that are found on the inside.

The veining tools come in U shapes. They are very small in size and they are used for making grooves and rough lines. The flutes are larger compared to the veining tools. In most cases they are used for making surfaces very smooth and giving it a good finish.

Chisels ranges from narrow sizes to the widest size. They are mainly used for flat-cutting of edges occurring at 90 degrees and making good finishes for the sharp edges. The skew tools are like chisels that provide straight cutting for edges occurring at 45 degrees. Depending on the type of cutting they can give a left skew or right skew.

The long bent gouges are used in making concave curves. They are mainly used for roughing and making hollows. The spoon gouges have a concave shape with straight shanks. They are also mainly used for gouging. The back bent gouges are similar to the spoon gouges except they have convex-shaped curves that bends backwards. They are mainly used for chopping undersides.

It is therefore good to note that the size of the wood curving tools will determine the radius of the curves. Hence tools that contain low size numbers are mostly used for finishing. On the other hand tools that contain big curvatures have size numbers that are big to be able to make deep cuts.

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