Sculpting Blades, 18-Piece Set | Carving / Sculpting tools

Tools of forged double-layered steel for all-purpose carving. The blades have socket tangs....

Tools of forged double-layered steel for all-purpose carving. The blades have socket tangs. Mixture of forms (flat, flat/skew, curved, V). Coarse ground, no handles.

Traditional Chinese Carving Tools

These exceptional carving tools emanate from two forges on the southern Chinese city of Dongyang, a centre of the sculpting craft. With the small chisels, the durable blades are sharply tapered into a pointed tang. The larger tools have a socket-shaped throat which holds the handle and prevents splitting. The carving blades are made of carbon steel (C 60, approx. 58 HRC). In line with Chinese tradition, the chisels are only roughly ground by the blacksmith. It is the user who makes the chisels ready-for-use by fine grinding to the required sharpness and mounting the handles.
Note: Due to the entirely manual production, the stated dimensions are subject to relatively wide fluctuations.

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