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O OnoTiki Member Kaneohe HI Joined: Dec 24, 2004 Posts: 31	O OnoTiki Posted posted on Tue, Feb 15, 2005 12:12 AM Chucko Welcome to TC, I am sure you will find the answers you need here. I have never carved any palm so I am little help there. I too am new to carving and one thing that took me some time to notice is how dull tools can make the wood look bad. When I did my first tiki I just carved for all I was worth it took me the next two to see how a dull tool CAN cut the wood, but also RIPS the wood. Some of my tools where only dull on one side so only that side tore at the wood. I blamed the wood or my lack of knowledge with carving until I finally caught on what was going on. I am now starting to see that the chisels dull at a much faster rate then I would of guessed and I now am learning to sharpen my own tools. So your wood might be wet, or you tool might be dull and be ripping the wood more then cutting the wood. Just and idea to check. OnoTiki [ Edited by: OnoTiki on 2005-02-15 00:13 ]

Chucko Welcome to TC, I am sure you will find the answers you need here. I have never carved any palm so I am little help there. I too am new to carving and one thing that took me some time to notice is how dull tools can make the wood look bad. When I did my first tiki I just carved for all I was worth it took me the next two to see how a dull tool CAN cut the wood, but also RIPS the wood. Some of my tools where only dull on one side so only that side tore at the wood. I blamed the wood or my lack of knowledge with carving until I finally caught on what was going on. I am now starting to see that the chisels dull at a much faster rate then I would of guessed and I now am learning to sharpen my own tools. So your wood might be wet, or you tool might be dull and be ripping the wood more then cutting the wood. Just and idea to check.

OnoTiki

[ Edited by: OnoTiki on 2005-02-15 00:13 ]

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