Work of the carver always begins with production of preparations. Therefore the first, than it is necessary to get, it is a basic set of the tool for processing of a tree. And as the art carving demands rather high precision and quality of processing, the arsenal has to be expanded.
Having all necessary for preparation of details for a carving, it is necessary to collect in an individual order a set of tools for a delicate work. A basis of such set — a set of qualitative fair chisels and cutters of different forms and the sizes. It is possible to go in two ways: to get a mediocre set from 8-12 subjects, or to buy on one-two copies of the high-quality tool lacking for development of a certain equipment or the scheme of a carving.
For study of fine details some knives of the different sizes, one or two shaving, a disk knife, punches of different forms and the sizes have to be available. For acceleration of process and increase of accuracy of processing possibly use of electric engravers, chisels and renovator. The application will be found to dozen of kurkovy clamps, especially at assembly of compound products on glue connection.
Also good joiner is distinguished by correctly picked up razmetochny tool: rulers, squares, surface gages, protractors, calipers, caliper, pencils of different density. Woodcarving is always carried out according to in advance thought over scheme according to which for each separate product the template is made. Therefore get used not to throw out cardboard boxes and scraps of thin sheet materials like plastic or LMDF.