1. WOOD
MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY
4th Edition

2. Chapter 24
Carving and Shaping

3. WOODCARVING
Woodcarving can be defined as the craft
of shaping wood into a variety of shapes
Can be purely functional or decorative or
a combination of both.

4. Types of carving
 Incised carving:
 Cutting only the
outline of the design
with V gouge.
 Chip carving:
 Simple geometric
shapes repeated again
and again for desired
effect.

5. Types of carving
 Relief carving: this is when
the background is cut away
to raise the design and give
3d effect
 Sculpture – 3D carving

6. Transferring the design

7. Chip Carving

8. Relief carving:

10. WOODCARVING TOOLS
 Standard wood chisels and gouges can be used for
simple carvings, but special tools are used for more
complicated work.
 Different woodcarving tools are identified by
– Size in millimetres
– Cross section by number (known as sweep)
– Shape of blade (straight, curved, spoonbent,
backbent, fishtail)

11. Carving tools
 Gouges
− Making shallow
hollow cuts
− Grounding
− Cutting into outline
cuts

12. Carving tools
 Chisels
− Making precise cuts
− Outline cuts
− Creating detail

13. Carving tools
 Veiner
− Incised carving and
details
 Vee tool
− Incised carving and
details
− Deep vee-shaped cuts

14. Carving tools
 Carver’s mallet
− Tapping the
gouges and chisels
during carving
 Grounding punch
− Creating a textured
effect as background to
carvings

15. Sharpening
 The gouge is sharpened on
the sharpening stone with a
sweeping motion
 The burr inside the edge is
removed using a slipstone

16. Suitable woods
Light coloured wood
Dark coloured wood
Sycamore
Mahogany
Lime
Walnut
Pine

17. BASIC WOODCARVING
TECHNIQUES
When carving wood, it should be held
firmly in;
– A vice
– Secured to the bench with a g-clamp
– Held with a carver’s screw
– Held with a woodblock screwed or glued to
the workpiece

18. HOLDING WORK

19. Quiz

20.  Name the tool
− Carving gouge

21.  Name the type of carving
− Relief carving

22.  Name the type of carving
− Chip carving

23.  The top of this jewellery box has an incised carving of a ring.
Describe a tool used to carve the ring on the top of the box.
− Vee tool

24.  Describe how you would transfer the pattern onto the wood,
in preparation for carving
− The pattern is taped to
the wood
− A piece of carbon paper
is inserted underneath
the pattern
− Trace over the pattern
with a pencil
− Don’t miss any lines of
the pattern