![]() ![]() Lessons with sharpening have stung, but I’m glad we had a good laugh at the epic fail that was my first grinder attempt ? My husband and I looked at it last night and were in tears laughing so hard. ![]() Wish I could show a picture of my Pfeil 3/14 fishtail. I do enjoy the angle of the gouges, but will try to Commision the 6/14mm as suggested, I won’t know how amazing the tool can really be until I customize it! I am going to definitely go a lot slower this time and maybe use the soft Arkansas to make adjustments instead of the crazy excited grinding I did on my old Pfeil tools. I spent a lot of time last night working in the shop with the tools, after watching the pye-Cosman videos again several times, I got the straights down much better, and am going to really study the cuts for rounds. It’s been the thing I enjoy carving the most. I will try with a hard Arkansas that is a bit more course than the black one I have.įor the angle, I was referring to the lettering angle. The others are perfect, I’m thinking this one didn’t sit right in the pilot hole or something. ![]() I saw your video on repairing the tang, and was wondering if that sort of step was too drastic for a new tool, or if there is a more typical way to “handle” the situation when it is new out of shipping box. I have not used my tools yet with a mallet or anything and the handle came loose from the tang. Thank you so much for your videos and advice on sharpening! I want to throw a party I am so thrilled I am now back on the road to actually carving again after my sharpening blues. I was much more careful, sat and stared at the tools for a good while just planning how to find that perfect angle on the grinder. I was FINALLY able to get a perfect 15 degree on both sides of the 2 chisels I started working on. I took your advice and went to work with commissioning my new auriou set. I swear last comment for a long time!!! Haha Then you want to feel comfortable with the small size before you cut into your walking sticks. I'd suggest you get proficient at carving larger letters first, then just start reducing the size. You'll find the effect of the wood fibres stronger and there's little or no slack to adjust - each cut really counts! But really, as I say above, the tools aren't different, just smaller. 1.cm is really small for carving and quite tricky to pull off well. I think that as you get deeper into lettering you'll just see how they work and the sort of tools you'll need.Ģ. If you look at the 'Swallow Table' in the gallery on my own website (you'll see letters sweeping along from 1cm to 10cm. It's basically the same technique except, of course, you can't get a wider chisel into a narrower straight element, though you can do the opposite. Glad you are enjoying the site!ġ: Well, roughly bigger letters need bigger tools and vice versa. (PS, and not really useful but it's a lot easier to carve script in stone, which is all done with simple chisels and without grain to take into consideration.) I hope this is helpful and I'm sorry I can't say exactly what you need. The answer will be experimenting with narrower tools. I'm not surprised your tools are too wide for what you want to do! As I carve lots of things other than letters, I have a lot of tool shapes and widths to play with.Īdd to this that the smaller the letter, the more the grain of the wood comes into play and the less wood you have to sneak up on those final edges, and you've set yourself up with a biggish problem. All carving tools can cut a range of (ever-tightening) curves but width is a big factor and you are carving quite small letters. Size: So you will need quite a lot of sweeps to cut the various script curves - and certainly narrower tools. I've been able to adapt Blackletter (Gothic) into a readily carveable 'font' but never scripts. A rule of thumb for me regarding any alphabet or font is that if I need a lot of tools to cut it then it's not a happily carveable font and will take a long time. This means that you need a lot of carving tools to cut script alphabets successfully. The curves and shapes are much more complicated than those of the classic Roman. This is lettering done by hand it flows and moves with a pen, say, and right there is your first problem it's not designed by or for carvers. Michael - I'm glad you are finding us helpful! ![]()
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