If you decide to take up a useful hobby and learn woodcarving, the first thing to do is to purchase a cutting tool. To it it is possible to carry knifes and chisels of the various form and the sizes.
When choosing a tool, each newcomer will be surprised at the variety of different chisels on the shelves.
Types of chisels for wood carving
Let's look at several varieties of chisels that will be useful in mastering the art of carving:
- Straight chisels - are used for various types of thread, mainly as an auxiliary tool. The angle of their sharpening does not exceed 18-20 °;
- semicircular chisels for wood carving - the most common. They can be sloping, medium or steep;
- so-called klukarzy are necessary, that when working with a plane do not touch it with a handle. The blade of such chisels is curved appropriately, and they themselves are flat, semicircular or angular;
- Chisels in the form of corners, called geymusami, are used mainly for sampling V-shaped grooves. This technique is often used in contour threading. The angle between the edges of the geismus varies from 50 to 70 °;
- in order to cut thin streaks, the chisel-chisels will fit. Outwardly, they look like semicircular chisels of steep type, and their profile must correspond to the section of veins;
- chisel sticks have a comfortable handle, made in the form of a fungus. They are indispensable if you need to make a detail or cut a thumbnail by holding the workpiece in one hand;
- for staple threads and cleaning hard-to-reach places
the chisel-nail, outwardly really reminding a fingernail is intended. The other two types of staple-klepik are the sword and the leaf, which are needed for volumetric and flat-relief threads for stripping the background.
As for the material of manufacture, the best chisels for wood carving have always been considered and are forged. Determine which chisels for wood carving is best, you can only get some experience in their practical application. In addition, it depends on the type of thread (geometric, sculptural, etc.).