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It's been a while since I started a new thread, and since I started down this carving path, let talk hatches and adzes and gouges and hooked knives.
 

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Be prepared for a lot of hand work, grinding, sharpening and polishing. Also, take a look at the wood lathe "duplicator" I made from ShopNotes just to turn the handles. If you are going to do 62 chisels like I did, you are going to want one. Note in my write-up on the Lumberjocks chisel photo pages I reference where to get the ROUGH hand-forged irons. They are from the best forge in a Chinese city renown for centuries as the center of wood carving. My attitude was if the Chinese could carve Rosewood as they love to do, they must be using good chisels as carving Rosewood is about the same as carving a brick. The rough chisel forgings cost me around $150 for all of them.
 
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I'm currently in the process of finishing the Jailers keys project you can see in the photo below. I started it ages ago and then go bored with it, so it sat on the shelf. It is a bit further forward than the photo shows now. I'm on the last key, so after that there is a bit of work to do on the ring and then some general clean up and it will be complete.

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Can anyone recommend a good micro set? The celtic weave i did recently could have really used some lil baby tools. I picked up a stainless steel set from Lee Valley and i bent the first one i used like a taco in under 30 second. I guess ya get what ya pay for, and $15 wasnt nearly enough.
 
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This is perfect timing for me. I just carved my first reliefs over the last few days. My first attempts were following Mary Mays free lessons. It helps a lot seeing someone do it before you try it. A few fuzzy spots and some chipsouts but not too bad for first attempts if I may say so myself.
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I'm having a hard time finding free templates that are within my begginer skill level. Anyone have any tips for finding some good templates.
 

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WOW, some nice carvings and tools in here! Todd's got us all beat on the tool price, I think. Though one of the guys in my carving club used to work for a motion picture studio, and one of the carpenter gave him a whole roll away of carving tools. I think it has every tool Pfeil ever made in it.

I'm only going to buy tools. It's less work that way. I bought a bunch when I sold my '68 Buick Skylark hot rod.

ClaudeF mentioned Dockyard micro tools. I have all of the sets; I bought them right before they dropped off the map. I hear that they are starting up again, but in the meantime, Flexcut is picking up the slack. I have a bunch of their knives,but none of their micro tools.
 
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Lazyman: those are very good! Here s a site that has lots of patterns:

https://www.lsirish.com/tutorials/woodcarving-tutorials/

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Thanks Claude. I will check that site out. I have to say that watching Mary May do it first makes it pretty easy. I highly recommend her free lessons to anyone who wants to try but doesn't know where to start. Her free lessons are pretty good. I am thinking about subscribing for a month to try some of here other lessons. I am going to have to get a few more gouges. These were pretty challenging with only the 4 that I got to start with. As expensive as they are, I am actually contemplating getting the set that Planeman40 got and just making handles for them as I need new ones.
 
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Lazyman: those are very good! Here s a site that has lots of patterns:

https://www.lsirish.com/tutorials/woodcarving-tutorials/

Claude

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I have a few of Lora's books, they are great. One lesson I got from her that was probably unintended, but was a great one- I was slavishly copying the Grape Leaf Green Man in her wood spirits book, and made a mistake. I noticed that the picture of said carving on the cover didn't look exactly like the one inside the book. So, it was really freeing to see that carvings don't always come out like we originally intended. Just so we fix the mistake so nobody can tell, which most people can't, or don't care anyway; they just appreciate that it is done at all. That's a long way from when I was a design engineer and had specialty tools (for instance) that were mass produced and had to have interchangeable parts. Dimensioning and tolerancing flew right out the window when I started carving! 8^D
 
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