This past week I laid out all my carving tools and did a first round of choosing a set of tools to keep for future carving projects. I suspect there may a be a smaller weeding out in a year or so. There are 73 tools in the trays in the photo above. There are an additional 11 in a carving tool roll that includes the 5 Marple gouges I purchased in college and a couple of tools whose fate hasn’t yet been determined.
This week I will get to the daunting task of cataloguing the tools that I will be selling and determining pricing. The modern Pfeil tools will be easy, they will be half the price for the same tool at Woodcraft today. Except they will be correctly sharpened.
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Let me know when that sale list comes out? Thanks.
Yes, I’ll be putting it up here.
Perhaps one day you could write a bit more about the proper sharpening technique.
Thanks
I’ve taught many carving classes and they always have to begin with at least an overview of sharpening as it’s a challenge for everyone. I find it is so much more efficient to teach sharpening in person. I began with the William Wheeler/Charles Hayward book “Wood Carving.” Learning only from a book meant it took several years before I really started to get the process down. What I know now though, I can get someone in a day’s class to the point it took me several years to get to. The Wheeler book is a good place to start but seeing the process in person, being able to ask questions, and seeing and using a a well sharpened carving tool will save months or years of frustration.
Any chance there will be an update on previously unreported name stamps for S J Addis carving chisels? I have some that are different than the ones shown in those pics. Thanks, Gary
S. J. Addis used more stamps over his career than any other maker. When the rights to his name were sold to Ward & Payne, there were even more stamp designs for many years after his death. I show a number of the variations here:
I have photos of others but would be curious to see any variations I haven’t seen before.