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Wood Carving: How to Sharpen Straight Chisels

If you’re just starting out as a wood carver, you’ll quickly discover how wood chisels are used all the time.   There are many kinds, many sizes.   They’ll need periodic sharpening and it’s good to be able to do them yourself.   It isn’t very fitting to have to bring your tools to a [...]

Jun 14, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Wood Carving: How to Choose the Right Tools

If you’re going to be a wood carver and not just a whittler, you’ll need to select a number of tools. There’s just no way around it. So what are the right tools for wood carving? Tools for Sharpening. Before the carving tools, it seems appropriate that tools for sharpening them should come first. After [...]

May 23, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post