Hand-carved seal with what tools

Hand-carved seals need to prepare the tools are: carving knife, sandpaper, clay, knife, seal pads, practice chapter, printing bed, outline pen, brush, whetstone.

Seal is used to print on the document to indicate the identification or signing of stationery, general seal will be dipped in pigment before printing. Common materials include jade, metal, wood and stone. The seal is one of the representatives of traditional Chinese culture.

Engraved seals, generally known as seal carving, are a combination of calligraphy (mainly seal script) and engraving (including chiseling and casting). Seal carving is an art form unique to Chinese characters. Seal carving emerged in the pre-Qin Dynasty and flourished in the Han Dynasty, with a history of more than 3,700 years so far.

Expanded Information

Maintenance of Engraving Grinding Wheel

The special grinding wheel for engraving refers to a kind of grinding wheel specially used for sharpening the seal stone and seal carving knife in the art of seal carving. The surface of this kind of abrasive disk is super hard diamond abrasive.

Maintenance instructions:

One, the abrasive disc after each use, the surface of all the water must be wiped dry, so as to avoid prolonged contact with water rust;

Two, new abrasive discs in the unused, the surface of the surface there will be a few tiny particles of floating, the use of which when the first grinding of the seal stone, the surface of the prints will produce a clear scratches, is a normal phenomenon. It is generally recommended that before the official use of the abrasive disc, first take the metal block in the abrasive disc surface flat grinding, so that the surface is more even and flat, to improve the grinding effect.

Reference Baidu Encyclopedia - Seal (used as printed on the document to indicate the identification or signing of the stationery)