Wish I had a bigger shed or workshop outside. But my shed is full, and it cannot accommodate any woods I am afraid. I still got so much old woods piled in the garden some given by friends and some are rescued from the loft piled in by previous house owners - they were just sitting in the loft, and I took them all out and piled into the corner of the garden - I should have moved and kept dry, but then there was no room in the shed, and I was away for business for weeks and months - the woods are soaked and damaged meanwhile), and they are weathered so badly. I have never been into Saw Mill for woods. I put it on eBay, and someone bought it astonishingly My profile photo is a carving done on one of the fire wood logs. My wood was always sourced from the streets, corner of the garden blown in twigs, Xmas trees, given by friends and from fire wood logs. But I am slowly coming back to carving this year. I was very active carving back in 2012-2013 but took a break, did other things. So we are paying for the makers time rather than quality. I read somewhere those expensive micro gouges and chisels are not necessarily because they are good, but because it was more difficult to make.
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Ideally if I could learn how to use a knife or two properly, maybe I do not need all these expensive gouges and chisels, but that would be quite challenging aspect of this hobby. I am conscious of that, and trying not to have too many tools around me. You are right about the maintaining the tools - whatever and how good tool they are, they do lose the biting sharpness through heavy usage, and need honing or stropping to get the sharpness back. When I was watching these carvers in Japan, they seem using large skew type chisels most of the time, and yet, they seem produce real fine details.
The style of carving I am going to learn is more detailed and realistic carvings like those from the Japanese wood carving buddahs. I have those gouges in Flexcut set, so I do not need them. One I was after is not very expensive, but it has a skew chisel in it. Narex sets seem going for about half the price of Pfeil sets, and look very nice from the photos, and if their metal is high quality, then maybe it is worth try? It feels far better deal buying a set because you get 4-6 tools in nice wooden case, whereas if I bought 1 or 2 chisels then I have to pay postage for them, and if I needed other chisels and gouges later, then having to keep paying for shipping, and turn out to be more expensive? Just a thought
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But again it comes to argument whether I need a full set of carving set for 1 or 2 skew chisels I want (knowing that 4 out of 6 will not be used often if at all), or buy individual chisels I am after. But I do not have skew chisels in larger size ideally with longer handle, so was looking for new sets. I only ever bought and used Flexcut palm set and mallet set, and they are excellent. Not knowing how they are, but it is impossible to know until I get, and use them - so its classic Catch-22 case Yes I am in UK, and there seem a lot of different makes, which make decision on what to buy more difficult. Thank you for excellent info and advice RV and Joe. Narex tools appear to be excellent steel and very good value for their comparatively low prices. Having a wild time making salad bowls and very satisfied with the steel quality. Somebody I know (from BCUK online?) was in Prague and bought the big Narex bowl gouge. The handles are not slippery/glossy but some siple matt-finish stain. The wood handles are flatted so they don't rioll around on the bench. No immediate plans for the other but I know the steel quality is there. I squared off one of them and made it into a most durable stop chisel.
I used the Narex all day for a week.Įdge retention was excellent, so I ordered a second pair. Pacific Northwest "form-line" carving is a lot of work cutting shallow grooves in the design.
The bevels were 25 degrees, a bit much for carving woodwork so I scrubbed them down to 20 degrees. To add to my growing collection of skews, I bought a Left & Right pair of 1/2" Narex. More and more woodworking Narex edges are being sold by Lee Valley but not the carving tool line, as far as I know. Narex carving tools are uncommon in the Pacific Northwest. If my memory serves, the Narex sets look like a useful variety of edge sweeps. In any case, try to find a vendor selling from open stock. Kiri: are you in the UK? Have you looked at Henry Taylor, Ashley Iles and even Stubai?
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