What tools do you need to learn small pieces of wood carving by yourself?

1, arc knife: the best, most commonly used, the most important knife, I bought a whole set, basically the most commonly used is a variety of sizes of arc knife.

So, the beginner must, it is recommended that a set from large to small, recommended: the width of the knife 2cm, 1cm, 0.5cm, shallow arc, 0.5cm or less is not recommended to buy, hand-built knives tiny size of the basic can not be used.

2, flat mouth knife: buy a 1CM or so is enough, dig a right angle what with use, basically in the function of the arc of the knife are replaced, flat mouth knife cutting the actual no arc of the knife to save energy and good to use, the knife is smooth.

3, electric knife, if you carve hardwood, such as sourwood, mahogany, rosewood anyway, that's really hard, that your hand worn skin, but also can not carve much, because really hard. The most efficient will be on the electric carving knife.

Two, auxiliary tools

Mainly hammer, wood file, axe, saw, axe.

The use is with a large number of billet chopping wood, pay attention to chopping should not be too much force, not straight up and down chopping, the axe blade should be kept at 45 degrees or so with the vertical wood grain, otherwise, the wood will crack. The use of the wood file is mainly in the round carving of the fine blank stage, instead of flat knife will be chiseled chisel marks filed smooth in order to repair the light.

Also can replace the round knife or beveled knife for hollowing. The role of the wood file also lies in a large area to quickly adjust the modeling structure, and can be used in conjunction with the carving knife, will be the figure of the clothing pattern of the rolling over and over to deal with the vivid and smooth, realistic and consistent. Wood carving hammer shape to flat, flat, wide, square is good. Hammer surface scale can be mastered in 7 × 5.5 × 2.5 centimeters.

Too narrow or too thick, will affect the accuracy of the hammer landing point and force uniformity. Hammer sub-wood and iron two kinds of wooden hammer, wooden hammer is generally used than the major wood hardwood, such as mahogany, boxwood, sandalwood, beech and fruit tree wood, etc., its specifications can be mastered in the length of 27 centimeters, 55 centimeters wide, 45 centimeters thick or so; grip parts of the handle is round and slightly flattened, the size of the hand to hold in the hands of the appropriate shall prevail.

Wood carving aids also include small electric woodworking polishing machine and electric pistol drill. The use of the polishing machine lies only in the surface treatment after the completion of the work, can replace the hand work a large area of polishing, more time-saving and labor-saving, but only limited to medium-sized volume of more spreading the use of the work, the pistol drill is mainly used by the hand hollowing out the holes, to do large-scale carvings, it can be used to hit the point of cutting the contour.

Three, operating equipment

Mainly refers to the crossbar with a particularly stable and sturdy workbench and wooden vise table, which can be placed on the vise and G clamp. Vise for chiseling round carving, jaws must be equipped with cork to prevent carving wood and tools are pinched. g-clamp for chiseling relief rough with. Beginners can set up according to their own conditions some economic and simple workbench, such as billet billet stool. Large works can be placed on the ground or standing or squatting flexible operation.

Expanded

Wood carving is a kind of sculpture, in our country is often referred to as "folk craft". Wood carving can be divided into three categories: three-dimensional round carving, root carving, relief carving. Wood carving is a separate category from woodworking, which is classified as "fine woodworking" in our country.

The folk art varieties categorized by carving materials. Generally choose the texture of fine and tough, not easy to deform the species such as nanmu, rosewood, camphor, cypress, ginkgo, incense, mahogany, longan and so on. The natural form of the roots of the tree carving artwork is "root carving". Wood carving in the round, relief, openwork or several techniques and use. Some of them are also painted to protect and beautify the wood.

On June 7, 2008, wood carving was approved by the State Council to be included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

References

Baidu Encyclopedia-Wood Carving