What are the traditional tools of dental carving?

The traditional tools of tooth carving are divided into two categories, one is chiseling tools and the other is shoveling tools, and there is a difference in the thickness of the cutting edge of the two types of tools. The reason is that the chisel work to use a hammer to hit the top of the chisel, so the chisel collar is thicker; shovel work only with the hand for the push, press, cut, scrape action, so the size of the cutter is smaller, the mouth is thinner. Incense beads Carving tools are flat shovel, round mouth, reverse mouth, monk's head, Qi mouth, and so on. These tools have different sizes of mouth edge, is specially used for starting line, carving, looking for fine, shoveling tools. Among them, the flat shovel is a thin sharp edge, used for carving and carving straight lines, chiseling straight walls of the main tool. Round mouth is the edge of the blade is rounded carving knife, is the carving and carving round line tool. In the complex texture of the ivory material with a monk's head for carving, not easy to get up the rift ballast. The so-called monk head is a kind of front flat, and the back is rounded head-shaped carving knife, in the complex texture of ivory material with the monk head for carving, not easy to riparian; Monk head is also used for surface repair, especially complex curved surface repair, especially effective. Qikou is a flat spatula without a sharp edge, is the edge of the ground flat spatula upright on the oil stone, the sharp edge of the blade is ground into a small flat surface. When used to use the front corners to scrape, you can scrape the surface of the ivory material to a smooth and flat. In relief carving pattern will be the ground leveling, in addition to the use of flat spatula, mainly with QiKou, monk head. In addition, ivory carving also use frame saw, dig saw, is to go to the large material shaping tools, frame saw, dig saw shape and carpentry saw, only small teeth, saw blade is thinner. Ancient drilling with a dance drill, which is a use of a belt to drive the rotation of the wooden rod to punch the tool. Dance drill used until the early 1950s, only to be replaced by electric table drill. The electric tools used in modern times include snakeskin drills, pistol drills, big hanging drills, wind wheel drills and air pumps. The dental carving tools in Guangdong are different from those in the north, especially the tools for shoveling work are different from those in the north. Such as a miniature knife saw with fine teeth, used to make geometric ornamentation, very good, the efficiency is better than with a small snakeskin drill. Source "carving investment and collection of introductory"