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Learn Wood Carving Video Series. I can easily say that every thing I do on my largest projects in terms of technique approach from the beginning to the end. Unique videos to help you learn the fundamentals of wood carving and tool sharpening. Learn Wood Carving Video Series. Approach from the beginning to. Gene Messer’s Carving Videos. Woodcarving videos on YouTube over the past few years. The videos are an excellent source of tutorial information for beginning. 5 Woodcarving Cuts for Beginners. A Beginner’s Guide to Traditional Techniques” is filled with everything a beginning. Jump-start your woodcarving.

Find more information about: OCLC Number: 122940846 Performer(s): Instructor, Everett Ellenwood. Description: 1 videodisc (210 min. Crafting And Executing Strategy 17th Edition Slides To Dvd. ): digital; 4 3/4 in. + 2 pattern sheets & 1 tool reference guide Details: DVD. Contents: Introduction -- Anatomy of wood -- Carving knives -- Sharpen carving knives -- Stylized bird -- Chisels, gouges and 'V' tools -- Sharpen gouges and 'V' tools -- Tool practice -- Flower relief carving -- Good woods to carve -- How to start a project -- Clamping devices -- Finishing/painting -- Conclusion. Other Titles: Beginning wood carving Abstract.

Drift the edge over the wood to complete the slicing cut. Do not rotate the handle. Photo Courtesy Fox Chapel Publishing • • • • • • • • Jump-start your woodcarving with simple, traditional techniques that beginners can learn to start transforming wood into beautiful works of art. Chris Pye’s Woodcarving Course & Reference Manual (Fox Chapel Publishing, 2012) is a guide to getting started.

In the following excerpt, Pye gives instructions for seven cuts that form the basis of the woodworking craft. You can purchase this book from the MOTHER EARTH NEWS store:. In your hand is a sharp and well-shaped carving tool.

You hold it in a safe grip that will let you carve with confidence and facility. Now you want to make things happen — but how exactly? What can you make these tools do? Well, a lot more than most newcomers think! Here’s a learning-the-guitar analogy: After you have understood tuning (sharpening) and how to hold the guitar (grips), I imagine our guitar teacher would probably have you plucking strings.

You would just play around lightly in a relaxed way, getting a sense of how the guitar works and the notes and chords you could make. So, before turning to woodcarving projects — our tunes proper, so to speak — I want to look at what we can call the outcome of the tool, the sort of notes you can play with a gouge. Cuts of the Carver Visit the Image Gallery for a photo of each. As a sample of the versatility of traditional carving tools, I’m going start by separating out a few of the cuts carvers make. Of course, you won’t be thinking in separate cuts like this when you are deep into your carving; you’ll just be working with the tool and eventually forgetting about it. Running Cut How to do it: This is similar to the low-angle grip. One hand at the rear propels the tool and the other, wrapped around the blade, resists.

The blade hand rests on the wood for control as you start, stop, and direct the cut at will, swapping hands to reverse direction. The nature of a running cut is that it keeps going; it’s a long stroke. Try running parallel and equal lines of varying depths with your V-tool; then cut curves to the right and left, swapping hands, and so on. Tilt the V to the left and right and observe. Try with a narrow, deep gouge or U tool. With a deep gouge (#8 or #9) run a long channel across the grain. A single deep channel like this is called a flute.

Place a second channel as similar as possible to the side, then a third, and so on. The surface will look a bit like it’s been plowed. Application: Running cuts with V- and U-tools have obvious drawing-like applications for veins and hair etc. Lowering the background in this way is a much more efficient approach than simply carving away wood here and there at random. Stabbing Cut How to do it: Using the high-level grip, put the weight of your shoulder behind the handle. Push the cutting edge of the carving tool straight into the wood and pull it out again.