Wood carving gouge

[redlig]

Nor did they to start with.

How about one of those angle grinder cutters using a chain saw ' blade' should provide hours of fun at the local A&E.

 

[bigegg]

How about one of those angle grinder cutters using a chain saw ' blade' should provide hours of fun at the local A&E.

I saw something like being carved with a chainsaw at Otley Game show a couple of years ago.

An arbortech angry grinder blade can't be any worse than that?

 

[Barking Mat]

I've got some @Parm , I can post.

Pm me.

 

[bigegg]

Sis has just got this from someone local.

It's getting a coat of latex + POP, and I'm going to run off a dozen or so in concrete

 

[Barking Mat]

I've got some @Parm , I can post.

Pm me.

No use to me.

 

[Ali]

I’d start that with a leccy chainsaw and move on to the gouge or you’ll get bored.

Sharpening a gouge is a bit of an art, there are a few ways but for me rolling it on the edge with the tool at 90deg to the stone in a figure of 8 pattern works best. Care needed to avoid knocking the corners off. Slip stone needed to do the inside. Strop afterwards and regularly. So frustrating if they’re not 100.02% sharp. I know you didn’t ask about that but it’s a big part of wood carving. Hats off to you for having a crack at making one.

 

[taxi ray]

We bought some carvings/ ornaments when we were in Gambia a few years ago. The bloke only used a very basic carving knife, think sunday roast type knife, he had a few different ones and some had been sharpened that many times, that there was not alot of blade left. This was working in some exotic hardwoods.

 

[redlig]

I saw something like being carved with a chainsaw at Otley Game show a couple of years ago.

An arbortech angry grinder blade can't be any worse than that?

Let me know when you've tried one .

 

[bigegg]

Let me know when you've tried one .

It'll be the typing about it, I'll find difficult.
I keep a bottle of superglue with my stanley knife because of how often I cut myself: I can't imagine an arbortech will be better

 

[taxi ray]

Gambia carvings.

 

[jerrytug]

I’ve got an idea brewing in my head to make a wood carving

need a carving gouge, I reckon about 30 mm (ish) wide, curved but not too much of a radius on it

now, I’ve been looking at the usual places and they are stupid expensive

how easy=y is to make one and what metal could I use?

it’s for a one off project

alternatively where can I get one from for cheap, anyone have a spare one for sale

@The_Yellow_Ardvark ?

I might have a spare one, will look Tues daytime

 

[jerrytug]

They are about £100 new....these have never been used........a gift that ive never had a use for
Im thinking £50

Recordpower - Woodworking tools

Woodworking Machinery and Accessories

www.recordpower.co.uk

No DVD though....just the chisels

Can I buy them off you? Will get used straight away.

 

[Parm]

Can I buy them off you? Will get used straight away.

crack on don’t forget my commission.

 

[jerrytug]

crack on don’t forget my commission.

If he flogs them to me, I will send you the one you want.

 

[Parm]

If he flogs them to me, I will send you the one you want.

very generous, but I’m ok.

shall I buy them and sell em to you?

£125 now, plus postage

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I bought an Arbortech in Oz in the early '90s when, iirc, they first came out...and when they were much cheaper. CLICK HERE

Brought it back and did a few things with it, then foolishly loaned it to someone. Ages went by and it had forgotten the way home so I asked for it back......he denied ever having been given it - lesson learned.

If anyone gets one, be very careful because it could eat your house if it ever 'got away' from you - and probably develop a taste for human flesh along the way.

 

[jerrytug]

I bought an Arbortech in Oz in the early '90s when, iirc, they first came out...and when they were much cheaper. CLICK HERE

Brought it back and did a few things with it, then foolishly loaned it to someone. Ages went by and it had forgotten the way home so I asked for it back......he denied ever having been given it - lesson learned.

If anyone gets one, be very careful because it could eat your house if it ever 'got away' from you - and probably develop a taste for human flesh along the way.

There are some interesting wood shaping attachments available for angle grinders, but I imagine vibration would be a problem? As a/g's aren't especially well made and often vibrate even when new..plus the shaping tools don't get centered by the way they are held on.

 

[jerrytug]

I bought an Arbortech in Oz in the early '90s when, iirc, they first came out...and when they were much cheaper. CLICK HERE

Brought it back and did a few things with it, then foolishly loaned it to someone. Ages went by and it had forgotten the way home so I asked for it back......he denied ever having been given it - lesson learned.

If anyone gets one, be very careful because it could eat your house if it ever 'got away' from you - and probably develop a taste for human flesh along the way.

Now I have watched the Arbortech youtube video, I really want one badly!

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Now I have watched that video, I really want one badly!

Don't say you weren't warned....

 

[bigegg]

Don't say you weren't warned....

I don't actually think the proper arbortechs are much worse than a grinding disk: and probably safer than wire wheels

I certainly wouldn't be tempted by the "chainsaw round the outside" type