Modern VS Vintage wood carving chisels. Which wood carving chisels are best?
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- Modern VS Vintage wood carving chisels takes a direct look at the difference between our modern set of Marples wood carving chisels and our vintage Herring Bros and Addis chisels. We look at the ones that are better to work with and share out thoughts on why they are better. Wood carving chisels can make a big difference to any wood carving project and having the best tools for the job can be the difference between success and failure in any wood carving project. This is by no means a conclusive comparison between modern and vintage gouges but an insight into our own experiences here at our family workshop.
Vintage wood carving chisel makers worth checking out are Herring Bros. Any made by the Addis family, the father in London and son in Sheffield.
I have never used vintage Buck Bros wood carving gouges myself but see it advertised a lot. Seems to have a similar reputation to the others mentioned. Vintage Frosts of Norwich, similar to Buck Bros I have not used these wood carving chisels but seems to have a good reputation.
Modern gouges I have used that are a good standard include Ashley Iles, Sorby and Henry Taylor.
I have no affiliation with any of the mentioned tool makers, this information is purely to assist anyone who is interested in wood carving tools and chisels.
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Very informative videos! I'm binge watching your video's on chisels and gouges. My father was a fine art wood sculptor. I wasn't interested in learning about carving when I was growing up as I was interested in other things (like music). He died a while back and left me with around a hundred or so gouges. I now have a keen interested in wood carving. I am learning to carve spoons and bowls at this point. What puzzles me is how he sharpened the gouges in different ways. Some have straight bevels and some are curved. Some have sort of rounded tips (the edge that meets the wood) and other are straight. Some have more than one curve and some are not symmetrical. Do you sharpen your gouges in different ways or only a flat bevel and flat tip? Are there any videos, online sources, books etc that cover different ways to sharpen gouges so as to achieve what he did?
Hi, great to hear from you. It sounds like your father had a very similar approach to sharpening as ourselves. Much information on sharpening is focused upon doing things technically correctly. However, this can often not be the most practical approach when working with certain gouges. We round the edges of many curved gouges, a technique we refer to as hollow grinding. A joiner would view this as a tool that has been sharpened incorrectly but it is done deliberately by the woodcarver. It makes the process of carving, for example, spoon bowls much easier. It you sharpen straight across it can leave lines and marks in the carving.
The good thing for yourself is you father has left a guide to follow. He will have sharpened each tool to get the results he wanted from each tool. It might be that some don't suit you as well as him but it is likely that most will help you get the best results from working with the different tools.
We have a few videos focusing on sharpening but they tend to be more general guides. Helping beginners get the basic principles of sharpening. What you have in your tools is a guide to sharpening that allowed your father to achieve the results he did. There are no text books that will be able to share such a practical insight.
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@@DailovespoonsThomas Thanks for your very thought our reply. I really appreciate it. You've helped me greatly.
I looked up hollow grind and it seems that it is a concave technique. Most of my father's gouges are convex on the outside bevel. I've searched high and low and I cannot find anything on how to sharpen a convex gouge. Some of the other gouges have even more puzzling shapes. So the thing I must figure out is *how* he sharpened them as you are right, I want to keep them as he had them. I watched a video on how to sharpen a convex hatchet (axe). The man used a technique where he folded a towel many times and unfolded it 6 or seven times to lower the area where the material was being removed. This allowed for a more rounded bevel.
Anyway, you've been very kind with your thoughs and time. I will continue to watch your videos as I find many of them are educational even if I am not carving similar projects.
All the best to you.
Thank you, glad some of the information has been useful. It will be a learning curve for you but should be a fun process. You'll probably have a few moments of 'now I get it' and certainly aspects will click into place and seem very familiar. Hope you enjoy discovering the methods and techniques your father developed.
Thanks again, all the very best from us all. 👍
Hiya Dai, you mention using just 2 chisels if you are on abudget towards the end of your video. I'm an absolute beginner so could you tell me what size are the two chisels that you mentioned? I'm searching ebay but there's a lot of choice and I don't want to invest a lot of money at such an early stage. Diolch
Hi Nina, great to hear from you. I use vintage wood carving gouges, Herring Bros and Addis are the two companies that I prefer. You can find their gouges on ebay by doing a search for 'Wood carving chisels' in regards to the sweep I use a number 3 and number 4 gouge. In terms of the size, they are about half an inch in width. If you want to send us an email to info@thelovespoonworkshop.com I can take a photo of the gouges I use the most.
Hope that helps, thanks for getting in touch. All the best from us all here at The Lovespoon Workshop. 👍👍
Concerning the Addis family, SJ Addis of London and JB Addis (later to be JB Addis and Sons) of Sheffield were brothers. SJ and JB's father's maker's mark was simply ADDIS The elder of the two Herring brothers, Thomas, was an apprentice to Samuel James Addis before opening his own shop just across the street on Gravel Lane. Thomas Herring married SJ Addis' daughter. The vast majority of SJ Addis tools floating around out there were actually made by Ward and Payne after they registered the square and dividers paired with SJ ADDIS LONDON following SJ's death (somewhere around 1870). Many of those Ward and Payne produced SJ ADDIS LONDON tools were actually made by JB Addis for W&P! Ward and Payne set JB Addis up in his own shop to do piecework for their SJ ADDIS LONDON line of tools because JB could not work at the W&P Toolworks as his was not a member of the guild and the other workers did not look kindly on him.
Except in special/particular cases, such as the Great Expositions with their Prize medals, the old edge tool makers did not sell gouges that were buffed baby's bottom smooth; they had no time for that. In fact, from a collector's point of view antique gouges that show the marks of the grinding wheel on the underside of a gouge are more desirable because they are closer to their original appearance. Any smoothness or mirror finish that you may have on an antique gouge is the signature of the craftsmen that used it.
Spot on plenty of trouble with the unions in Sheffield too. Have come across a few gouges stamped with Addis senior. There was also a link in marriage between the two families.
A fascinating history and fantastic tools to work. Thanks for sharing with everyone. Hope you have a happy and healthy Christmas and New Year. All the very best from us all. 🎄👍🎄
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Is there an actual sharpening video?
Hi Terry, thank you for getting in touch. We do indeed have a video that demonstrates two methods we use to sharpen. You can find this by looking through our list of videos and it also features on some of our playlists. If you are having difficulty finding the video, I have attached a link for you to follow below.
th-cam.com/video/Fm__junoiLc/w-d-xo.html
The techniques include a more expensive technique (tormek) that we use ourselves and a cheaper alternative (slip stone and strop) that we used to use.
Thank you again for getting in touch hope you enjoy the videos. Thanks again for supporting our TH-cam channel, all the best from us all here at The Lovespoon Workshop. 👍👍