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By: Mark Dennehy

Mark Dennehy — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 11:53:22 +0000

In reply to Steve D.

Most of mine are older used models from the 1950s back to the late 1800s, all with some older names – Taylor, Sorby, Ward, Marples, Addis and the like. ebay.co.uk is a bloody useful tool resource if you’re within reasonably posting range of sheffield 🙂

By: Steve D

Steve D — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 03:08:03 +0000

Most of the carving tool manufacturers are in EU or UK so you shouldn’t have to import from the US.

Pfiel, Stubai, Two Cherries, Dastra are on the continent. There may be some French companies too.

Ashley Iles and Henry Taylor are in England. I think the sweeps are slightly different numbering than the continent.

Then there are the tools available from people’s estates. Many options!

By: Mark Dennehy

Mark Dennehy — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:20:38 +0000

In reply to Autumn Doucet. Those are some nice tools at good prices, but the shipping is a killer from the US to Ireland. I usually get mine from ebay.co.uk because Sheffield is less than a hundred miles away, so why not? :D

By: Mark Dennehy

Mark Dennehy — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:15:54 +0000

In reply to kenneth hatch. Oddly, even if you just make firewood doing it, it's a lot of fun anyway Kenneth, you should give it a go! :D

By: Mark Dennehy

Mark Dennehy — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:15:30 +0000

In reply to Steve D. Yeah, I figured as much. But finding a source for suitable green oak here is tricky and even harder is having a way to dispose of the waste; can't burn it and disposing of garden waste isn't free here :(

By: Mark Dennehy

Mark Dennehy — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:14:28 +0000

In reply to Steve D.

I saw that list as well Steve (and I got all of his videos and read his blog whenever he posts and he’s talked there about tools a lot); but I already have enough gouges to muddle through – which isn’t to say I’m not going to buy more, whomever has the most tools when he dies wins, but I think I need to spend some time with the ones I have going right back to the grinder, resquaring and reshaping bevels and then taking them to the diamond plates. I do think I need another V-tool though, I have my eye on one or two…

By: kenneth hatch

kenneth hatch — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 16:56:02 +0000

And I complain about the cold.

It is interesting to see the work in progress and I like to see carved work. I’m not sure I would be able to finish one before turning it into firewood.

ken

By: Steve D

Steve D — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 00:21:14 +0000

I forgot to mention, kiln dried and air dried are very different. Green, split oak is like carving soap.

By: Steve D

Steve D — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 00:19:07 +0000

When I took a class with Peter Follansbee there was a list of tools for the panel being taught that was pretty basic. As you are doing carvings in that style, it may be more expedient and economical to buy what you need new rather than buy a large assortment of what you don’t need for those carvings. Having a lot of carving tools will be useful if you branch out later but the simple designs can be done with very few tools.

The Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking class descriptions have the lists.
https://www.schoolofwoodworking.com/images/stories/Tool_list_Peter_Follansbee_Begin__17th_century_carving_2013.pdf

I know that buying fewer tools is a tough sell…;)

By: Autumn Doucet

Autumn Doucet — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 23:32:23 +0000

Try out Mountain Woodcarvers – https://mountainwoodcarvers.com/

They are having a closeout sale on their gouges. The gouges are beefy (as in not wimpy), are made of good steel, and priced to sell.