Description
The manual provides information to start taking the first steps in the best and most profitable way in the ancient art of knife carving.
It contains the characteristics of the main woods most suitable for carving, excavation methods, sharpening techniques and even a simple description of the wax finishing of the works.
It also contains various drawings, to be copied or useful as ideas for one's own imagination, for the creation of ornaments of different difficulties.
Then there are the indications for the geometric design with step-by-step descriptions for the design of the most used shapes in knife-point carving. You will learn to draw both a simple perpendicular without the use of the square, and to draw hexagons, dodecahedra, stars, etc.
The kit contains a hand-sharpened straight blade knife for maximum precision and ease of cutting. Today there are various shapes and sizes of carving knives, many of which are “specialized” in particular types of work or finishes. The contained straight-blade knife is one of the most versatile because it allows both Valle d'Aosta style triangles carving and decorative carving and use on walking sticks.
Swiss pine and lime are the best woods for carving with a knife, bas-relief or sculpture with palm gouges. Easily workable, compact, soft but not too much, they allow both deep and light excavations and details comparable to much harder woods.
With a light texture, the more uniform lime and the more lively and knotty pine, they lend themselves well to coloring even with colored wax alone.
The Swiss pine tablets contained in the kit are of excellent quality and allow both easy exercises and high precision and detailed work with excellent results with every type of finish, liquid wax, paste wax, shellac, protective varnishes. They are smooth on both sides and allow, compatibly with the depth of the excavations compared to the thickness of the tablets, work or exercises on both sides.
