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Carving Tools for Pottery and Ceramics, picking the best tools for fine detail
All the skill, all the patience and all the time in the world will only get you so far with finely detailed carvings if you don’t have the right tools. The tools don’t need to be expensive ones or even specialised ceramics tools, but you do need to be comfortable with them and know exactly how they interact with the clay.
Head and shoulders in terms of usefulness above all other tools is a thin-bladed knife. I currently have half a dozen but generally stick with two or three favourites for most jobs, depending on what needs to be done.
When I first took pottery up in England after leaving it behind in Australia, I had one store-bought tool along with whatever I could cobble together from household items.
This is a Thai Fruit Carving knife. Its distinguishing features are that it’s long, thin, sharp and relatively flexible. All of those are very useful features, although didn’t quite cover all of my needs so I was limited in what I could do for the first month until I acquired further knives of different shapes and flexibility.
This is an extract from the beginning of the article on my website here at Fireverse Ceramics, which you can visit if you want to see the breakdown of all the tools.
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All the skill, all the patience and all the time in the world will only get you so far with finely detailed carvings if you don’t have the right tools. The tools don’t need to be expensive ones or even specialised ceramics tools, but you do need to be comfortable with them and know exactly how they interact with the clay.
Head and shoulders in terms of usefulness above all other tools is a thin-bladed knife. I currently have half a dozen but generally stick with two or three favourites for most jobs, depending on what needs to be done.
When I first took pottery up in England after leaving it behind in Australia, I had one store-bought tool along with whatever I could cobble together from household items.
This is a Thai Fruit Carving knife. Its distinguishing features are that it’s long, thin, sharp and relatively flexible. All of those are very useful features, although didn’t quite cover all of my needs so I was limited in what I could do for the first month until I acquired further knives of different shapes and flexibility.
This is an extract from the beginning of the article on my website here at Fireverse Ceramics, which you can visit if you want to see the breakdown of all the tools.
Related Articles
* The Right Tool for the Job - Everything Else
* Clay Building or Stone Carving?
* Youtube Playlist: Ceramic Tutorial - Carving a Clay Stargate (a step-by-step guide)
* Youtube Playlist: Pottery Lessons - Two Minute Tutorials
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