![]() ![]() 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. I'm no expert but they look wonderful to me.Michael - I'm glad you are finding us helpful! I highly recommend them, and once I've saved up I'll be buying more Auriou tools. What can i say? These are beautifully made and presented tools. I recommend this set to the beginner as well as the more advanced wood carver. I will definitely purchase more in the future. I appreciate the thoughtfulness of the tool selection and sweep arrangement. I purchased this set to accompany the Chris Pye video series and found that the set performs well and the steel is very good quality. Please keep making them! Thank you also for the reliable and friendly service. My great grandchildren will one day use and love these tools. Nothing comes close to the work done at St Jeury Forge and designed by Chris Pye. I have many chisels, mostly purchased second hand from a variety of manufacturers. All of these chisels are solid quality, designed for ease of use and practical in their comfort and weight. Now I've bought the set of seventeen carving chisels. I bought Pye's chisels for letter carving last year and love them. V tool is only available as part of the 17 piece set. Each tool comes with slender octagonal ash handles and polished brass tapered ferules. They are lighter, with thin walls of uniform thickness, and their corners are more available for cutting.Ĭhris regards these as some of the finest carving tools being made today and is proud to endorse both the tools and the caring, traditional manner in which they are made. The new gouges have the older, 'allongee' style of blade that splays from the shoulder. This process creates a resilient grain structure and, when hardened to Rockwell 58C, underpins their great edge-holding properties.Ībout 10 years ago, Chris enjoyed working with Auriou to redesign these tools. The blades are uniquely forged by beating out a blank of steel to length, before hammering the cross-section profile. Deep gouges for shaping, medium gouges for modelling, flat gouges for smoothing surfaces, and the ever-useful V tool - with these tools you can carve a wide range of subjects. 10mm (13/32").Īuriou woodcarving tools have been used by Chris Pye since he first began carving and are among his favourite tools. There are 17 tools that make up Chris Pye's "Basic" range of carving tools: ![]()
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