How To Sharpen Carving Tools At Home
The general advice is to stroke the blade over the sharpening tool surface stone strop many times in the direction towards the cutting edge.
How to sharpen carving tools at home. Checking your Tool for Sharpness. Importantly she also shows how to strop different shapes because thats the key to keeping her tools sharp. Stropping your Carving Knife.
Sharpening a Gouge with a Stone. Always go into the edge when sharpening or grinding. Grinding or honing into the edge produces a crisp profile with only a tiny burr curled to the inside.
In this two-part presentation from her monthly Carbatec YouTube woodcarving live-stream Olivia shows how to sharpen curved and V-shaped gouges as well as a drawknife. They are at 20-degree angles. Stropping your other Tools.
You end up with a long floppy burr that leaves a thick edge when the burr is honed off. Anything the half moon iron to do the edges of your lawn. Use a stiff brush to really work into any crevices in that blade front and back.
Push the knife and blade away from your side. The principal is exactly the same as with sharpening a knife. This will complete the leather sharpening stage of your tool.
Check out my STONE CARVING COURSES. Sharpening the V-Tool with a Stone. The V-tool and Carving gouge are easier to sharpen than they look if you understand a few basic Hand Tool t.