Your cut-straight-to-the-point step by step explanations are very helpful to me to get me started. THANK YOU!!

I've started chip carving and some relief carving as well. The "V" tool is very helpful but one of the hardest to get really sharp. Also it takes a lot more force than it looks to get the cut made. Even basswood is not like carving butter! Good job demonstrating!

Thanks for this video. I've watched some experts chip carve and they make it look so easy! Like butter! You on the other hand give a realistic view of chip carving. If I had seen this video first, I might not have given up so soon. You have encouraged me to try again. Thanks. With lots of love ❤ from sunny 🌅 Arizona 🌵

I am very pleased that you admit to not being a super expert..as a learner I like to see that other people do make mistakes..it gives me encouragement

DUD! Fan-Freeking-Tastik work!! it was a great video to learn from too. I’ve watched a couple of other people & they did such perfect work & made it look so easy that I was getting discouraged trying to copy them. You explained it so even a knucklehead like me understood it. Great video with beautiful work. Thank you

Thanks, I start carving myself and it's nice to learn tips and tricks

Now this is a realistic teaching. Thanks

Real excellent wood work. Great talent and finish with clean cuts.

Really cool carvings 👍👍

Very helpful as I am a newbie to this.

Thank you! Your tutorial was great! I now know how to start and what tools I should start with!

Wow your carvings are amazing

Very helpful for this beginner

My sister dreams of decorating her own mouldings and trims with this technique. I didn't really know what she was talking about. Now I do. Guess it's time to find some basswood... :)

Thanks for making this video. Nice voice and excellent teaching method. Keep it up!

Thanks for the tutorial,you're right there aren't many videos on "how to". I started on staff carving, but my cousin (a wood shop teacher) suggested to look you up. I plan on switching to flatter wood, so this tutorial was pretty helpful, thank you!

"probably gonna end up using a pocket knife on a piece of oak". I feel attacked. That's exactly my first time.

I agree with your comments about Chip carving a great place to start, it’s so transferable to most of the other disciplines. Great video 👏👏

Nice work, I enjoyed the tutorial which was informative and entertaining. Good job!

Great video thanks

Nice sir good job

Thanks!

Very very good video. You stayed on topic and showed relevant details with a great commentary. I’m going to give this hobby a try. What chip carving knife and v-tool (under $25 per tool) do you recommend?

First, thank you for your videos. It takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there like that. Your relief carvings are pretty amazing. You are obviously a skilled carver. That makes makes me really grateful to see you struggle a bit to get perfectly clean elements on the first cut when chip carving. Watching Wayne Barton do this stuff so effortlessly kinda makes me feel like a loser. Having said that, your finished carvings are awesome! I have a question about RELIEF carving. I have been working on an acanthus leaf design and find it really difficult to cleanly take down the background in sharp corners like where leaves meet (like on your green man carving). How do you approach those tight spots? Thanks, Erin

i found most of this video to be useful

Harry, at the beginning of this video you reference that you're not a big fan of the type of wood you are carving arm, I know there's a lot of Puppets in Prague and other places around the world like England, make a lot of their characters from this wood what is your personal add version to it and why?

Do you need to carve the patern or arond the petern

great, best chip carving demo ive seen... thank you..

Werry nice video well done I hope one Day I Will be as much good as you 👏✌️

Hi. U r a lot better teacher than the other guys. Thanks.

This was my first attempt at chip carving he says well I don't need to be watching this video LOL

good start, the v tool seems to be very handy, one observation, maybe a glove or thumb guard would be helpful for the novice

I really don't want to be "that guy" especially since I'm not an expert either and I like your work, but this is an issue of safety. The way you hold your chip carving knife and the way you cut with it is pretty much completely wrong and dangerous! Search youtube for "chip carving basics " and every video will show you the proper and safe way to hold the knife and cut with it. There's a reason why all of these videos show the thumb of the carver being parallel to the blade, because it gives leverage and provides better guidance for the knife. Not to mention it's much easier and safer to stop the knife should it slip in the wood without hurting yourself. The way you show it in this tutorial puts way too much pressure on the blade, making it more likely to either slip if it hits a softer spot in the wood or break while cutting. Keep in mind, these are razor sharp blades we're working with and they'll make nasty cuts if something goes wrong. Not to mention your cutting method is less effective than the proper method. Your way it seems to force you to repeat your cuts way more than necessary because you can't put enough precision and depth to them. The medium-small sized chips you showed first should've popped out after a single proper cut on all sides of the chip. I'm sure these methods work for you, but please next time do at least some research on a topic before making a tutorial on it that contains potentially dangerous and less effective techniques!

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