Chip Carving: Tips for Beginners 

This video kept me very interested. I enjoyed watching and learning. Thank you.

This is great. I'm trying to get into wood carving, and this is a great intro video. Really appreciate you taking the time to make a quality video like this.

Great and concise explanation of the technique. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

Happy new year! Thank you so much for this vid. I've been looking for tutorials on carving cuts with palm tools. This was exactly what I needed.

LOL “I’m just a beginner at this....” turns out amazing! Hahahah you make me laugh. Very well done!

Thanks for this clearly-shot and well-explained video.

EXCELLENT VIDEO. THANK YOU!!!

Best video I've seen so far 😍 Thank you, nice and clear and everything made sense.

The voice over is magnificent, and the info on the video is very useful!

I just began chip carving today using my grandma's old knives, this video helps a lot thank you

Very good informative video, thanks.

Exactly what I needed. Thanks !

Well Kari, I don't know if you ever go back and look at comments on your 10 year old videos... But I wanted to take this opportunity to say "Thank you" for these RU-vid posts. 10 years ago I wouldn't have been interested, but just tripped over your channel, and.. "Thanks". Watching you do the chip carving.. while 'not an expert' was quite fine. I just started and would be quite content to be as good as this video. :-) And the other videos... WWIA, Peter Folansbee... Yeah, very glad I found these, and that you posted them. :-)

You have whetted my appetite for beginning...Thank you

Cool carvings, now I see how you decorated your handplane. Thanks.

Blow me down. That was good ! Pure poetry in motion. Thank you for a great vid. Inspirational+++

Great video!

I just started today (practicing). Thank you for the video

I've been carving for several years. I have carved faces, Celtic spoons, relief, etc. I go to a carving class, but I only carve at class. I need to carve daily like when I first started. I'm going to work on chip carving. It's on my bucket list!

Thanks kari You are a Golden Mine Please post more videos

Great tips. Never done chip carving but will do soon :)

Loved this video :)

@chriscornelladdict The song is "Boys of Melody" by The Hidden Cameras.

very very very good of job (100)

My pleasure. :o)

kari, your video is *excellent.* one person in a million plans and scripts a video. i just discovered your vids, and i'll be a steady viewer. i notice that you never once said, "whatyouwannado, youwanna..." bless you bill price

Just found your videos. They are great, really. Good background music too. Have you stopped making them? Love the sound of your voice and the way you introduce and present your subjects. Hopefully, there will be more to come...

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This has inspired me to try this! However, no results are produced when I search for "primary" knives, and all the standard chip carving knives seemed to be bevelled. Can you tell me what I need to search for to find similar knives so I can get started?

That is basswood in the video. You can chip carve other woods such as cherry. You'll need to sharpen your knife more often with hardwoods, but it's doable.

What kind of wood do you use?? It looks so soft

Have you done any chip carving in wood that does not have a flat surface? Thanks.

Which kind of would we use

Seriously impressive...and you're a beginner?!!!!

What is the title playing in the background? It's lovely.

Nice vid Kari. Is Basswiid the best to learn on? How about pine?

that is interesting video. so where can i find the caving knifes please?

Hi - that is a good video! I'm guessing that you are working with basswood? That is not so easy to find where i'm living. Do you (or anyone reading this) have any suggestions on similar material? I'm just starting with carving and have so far just been using pine. It feels mostly soft and easy to handle (and cheap), but I think it has too much/big grains.

Hi, I really liked the video, congratulations. Would you like to know the name of this knife?

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Do you have any suggestions where to purchase these knives

Can you just use a whetstone? is the leather strop and compound step totally necessary?

Where did you get your ceramic stones? I'm not quite sure what to get for sharpening.

I can't believe you carve the wood on your lap! You're brave!

I question the perfect pinnacle statement as a blade that thin would break apart. Your knife has obvious rounded bevels seen at 0:13 and 1:05. Other than that, nice video. Spruce is also a nice wood to carve as I make violin tops from it and it carves very easily.

I'm confused by this video. You state that there should be no bevel on the knife and yet your still at 0.13 clearly shows a bevel. I would really like to get into chip carving and have seen a Flexcut chip carving knife (KN15) but am worried it isn't suitable. Can you take a look and clarify this for me? BTW, great video

This is the way you chip carve--with the board in your lap. Other forms of carving require you to clamp the wood so both of your hands are free. Not so with chip carving.

What kind of wood is easy to carve?

Where can I find graphite transfer paper???

I am left handed. Do you have to order chip carving knives for left handers? Thanks for your reply

Tyler, I purchased my knives from Wayne Barton, www.chipcarving.com.

Is that balsa wood?

Why?

which wood people use for chip carving?

So, first of all - congrats for doing it this way but for me, this way is to complicated, griping the knife this way does not relax your hand and gives your muscles pain on the long term. Chip carve started hundreds of years on this lands (Romania today) and I study it since I was 7 (now I'm 28 years) in one of the multicultural centers available then. The knife is a little different than yours and allows the grip to be something like holding a pen (much more relaxing I can assure you) and most important, a griping position that allows really fine and exact cuts. What I'm trying to say here?, when I was doing this kind of art nobody gave a damn, now when I'm doing 3d animation I see more and more chip carve lovers... life is strange but trust me, I know what I'm saying and from time to time I chip carve myself. If you want to know more just hit a reply. Thank you.

It's wrong to hold the wood in your lap while carving!!

I made it by myself thanks to Stodoys website.

Your vid is informative but I didn't finish watching it because the noise blasting at me between your instructions hurt my ears, other than that i liked it.