Basic Tools
A special screw for fixing work to the workbench, and a mallet, complete the carvers kit, though other tools, both specialized and adapted, are often used, such as a router for bringing grounds to a uniform level, bent gouges and bent chisels for cutting hollows too deep for the ordinary tool.
- The carving knife: a specialized knife used to pare, cut, and smooth wood.
- The gouge: a tool with a curved cutting edge used in a variety of forms and sizes for carving hollows, rounds and sweeping curves.
- The coping saw, a small saw that is used to cut off chunks of wood at once.
- The chisel, large and small, whose straight cutting edge is used for lines and cleaning up flat surfaces.
- The V-tool used for parting, and in certain classes of flat work for emphasizing lines.
- The veiner: a specialized deep gouge with a U shaped cutting edge.
- Sharpening equipment, such as various stones and a strop, necessary for maintaining edges.