Post by Tony on Jul 10, 2017 19:11:31 GMT
I might be asking a loaded question here. I'm hoping I can determine if a Pro Edge sharpener is appropriate for using on palm size carving tools and gouges?
I'm probably taking a different approach than most of the folks here, in that I am doing relief cutting for artistic printing purposes. In other words, carving wood and linoleum blocks that will be inked and run through my printing press.
A typical material I would be working on would be a Baltic Birch faced ¾” plywood. Most of my tools are palm style Pfeil gouges, parting V, veiners and knives. My primary focus is in the type of line that I'm creating and how it will appear in my artwork. Everything from broad straight ones to very delicate and curving. The wood itself is just the medium and I'm not looking to get highly finished surfaces or anything like that.
It seems that the sharpener is primarily directed towards larger size tools. Am I correct in that assumption? And are the small tools, in the low mm sizes I use now, even something that should be sharpened on it? Right now I use a Flex Cut slipstrop system to get an edge on them. Is that sufficient or am I missing out by not having these fully sharpened? In my mind I would occasionally sharpen them and then maintain them with the slipstrop while I'm working.
Your thoughts and or recommendations please??
Thanks!!!
I'm probably taking a different approach than most of the folks here, in that I am doing relief cutting for artistic printing purposes. In other words, carving wood and linoleum blocks that will be inked and run through my printing press.
A typical material I would be working on would be a Baltic Birch faced ¾” plywood. Most of my tools are palm style Pfeil gouges, parting V, veiners and knives. My primary focus is in the type of line that I'm creating and how it will appear in my artwork. Everything from broad straight ones to very delicate and curving. The wood itself is just the medium and I'm not looking to get highly finished surfaces or anything like that.
It seems that the sharpener is primarily directed towards larger size tools. Am I correct in that assumption? And are the small tools, in the low mm sizes I use now, even something that should be sharpened on it? Right now I use a Flex Cut slipstrop system to get an edge on them. Is that sufficient or am I missing out by not having these fully sharpened? In my mind I would occasionally sharpen them and then maintain them with the slipstrop while I'm working.
Your thoughts and or recommendations please??
Thanks!!!
