3. WOODCARVING
Woodcarving can be defined as the craft
of shaping wood into a variety of shapes
Can be purely functional or decorative or
a combination of both.
4. Types of carving
Incised carving:
Cutting only the
outline of the design
with V gouge.
Chip carving:
Simple geometric
shapes repeated again
and again for desired
effect.
5. Types of carving
Relief carving: this is when
the background is cut away
to raise the design and give
3d effect
Sculpture – 3D carving
10. WOODCARVING TOOLS
Standard wood chisels and gouges can be used for
simple carvings, but special tools are used for more
complicated work.
Different woodcarving tools are identified by
– Size in millimetres
– Cross section by number (known as sweep)
– Shape of blade (straight, curved, spoonbent,
backbent, fishtail)
13. Carving tools
Veiner
− Incised carving and
details
Vee tool
− Incised carving and
details
− Deep vee-shaped cuts
14. Carving tools
Carver’s mallet
− Tapping the
gouges and chisels
during carving
Grounding punch
− Creating a textured
effect as background to
carvings
15. Sharpening
The gouge is sharpened on
the sharpening stone with a
sweeping motion
The burr inside the edge is
removed using a slipstone
17. BASIC WOODCARVING
TECHNIQUES
When carving wood, it should be held
firmly in;
– A vice
– Secured to the bench with a g-clamp
– Held with a carver’s screw
– Held with a woodblock screwed or glued to
the workpiece
23. The top of this jewellery box has an incised carving of a ring.
Describe a tool used to carve the ring on the top of the box.
− Vee tool
24. Describe how you would transfer the pattern onto the wood,
in preparation for carving
− The pattern is taped to
the wood
− A piece of carbon paper
is inserted underneath
the pattern
− Trace over the pattern
with a pencil
− Don’t miss any lines of
the pattern
