Tutorial: How to Carve a Linocut 

quick tip as a knifemaker.........get yourself a polishing wheel and some compound. That'll keep your tools shaving sharp with a mirror finish and will be remarkably fast. Love your work, I've been getting back to printing lately and I'm loving the process

Thank you so much, you gave such helpful information. I will be buying my supplies this week to start lino printing and i am so excited. I have wanted to do this for years. I love your videos and you do the MOST amazing work ❤

Thank you Emil. That was an extremely useful tutorial. As with all your videos, this one looks great too.

Thank you for the lovely tutorial. Your careful commentary was so helpful and generous. Beautiful and inspiring work!

This was extremely helpful! I've been wanting to try this for a while and this is exactly what I was looking for.

Hello Emil, I admire your work and your style. For me, you are by far the best Linoleum engraver on RU-vid 🏆 If I may, in the description bar of the video, you made a small mistake regarding the Pfeil tool L 11/3 and 15/6 ... the shape is a U and not a V 🤔 Innocuous but very useful question before purchase: Why do you prefer/recommend the L 11/3 instead of the L 11/0.5 ? Same, Why do you prefer/recommend L 8/7 instead of L 8/3 ? Thanks from FRANCE 🇫🇷🙂

Thank you very much

Very good safety tips! Thanks for sharing your talent!

This is wonderful, thank you ☺️

Thankyou Emil. It is a joy to see your work and this video was very helpful indeed.

Thank you so much for this tutorial. It was really informative and also so satisfying to watch.

What a great and informative video. Thank you for your focus on safety and the importance of breaks and stretching. You do beautiful work.👍👏

Great video, thank you

Thanks a lot! Very helpful and well explained :)

Excellent video, as always, thank you Emil.

Brilliant video. Thank you !

It's such a good introduction to linocut that it's very similar to what I know about woodcut. And your sharpening explanation it's the most simple and direct I ever saw. Thank you for the video!

hi, thanks so much for this! I am super into Lino at the moment, but was never actually taught how to do it so this is amazing x

Thanks for the deep-dive!

Thanks so much for sharing Emil!

So much useful information. Thank you.

Thanks for this video, it is an excellent introduction to linocut generally. The best I've come across so far.

So inspiring, thank you!

Thank you ! Great tutorial!! 💛

Great tutorial and tips : thank you for sharing your knowledge !

Wow, that was a wonderful tutorial. Thank you

I love your channel. Thank u!!

Thanks a lot for sharing the knowledge and experience. It is really difficult to find linocut classes in my city 😂

Thank you so much for sharing this excellent video here. It's greatly appreciated and your work is truly beautiful and inspiring! 👌👏❤

Such a helpful video! Thank you so much ❤

Thanks for the video. I’m amazed by your skill with that large V shaped tool 👍

Great tutorial thanks!

I really enjoy your videos thank you for making them, I've just started with linocut again after many years, your videos remind of how calming it can be :)

Great thank you

Thanks for sharing

thank you for sharing

Thank you so much.

I did lino cutting both in school and college. None of us had bench hooks. The amount of times i came close to badly stabbing myself was preeetttyy high. I've not used one yet but they have always seemed like a reeeaallly good idea to me. 😅

Thanks!

Hi Emil, amazing video. Got me back into linocut actually. There is one thing though: I believe that symbols for two chisels got swapped with eatch other. L11 is U-shaped (and 3mm wide here) and anything above 12 profile is a V-shape. Besides that - great primer for everyone wishing to begin printmaking or refreshing a little bit, aka me.

I remember first learning how to linocut. Our project was a 5" x 7" and I stabbed myself many times the first week. I had to learn to keep my fingers well away from those blades. Thankfully, they only took 2 or so days to seal up.

Wonderful video. I am fairly experienced with linocut, and I have to say one of the best discoveries I have made is the Slipstrop tool. With it and some fine sandpaper (500 to 2,000 grit), I am able to not only keep my Pfiell tool (just one, an #12) but also my Flexcut tools sharp. And, after some more rigorous sharpening, I can hone and maintain my Speedball cutters too. I love the profiles of the Speedball tools, but they come from the factory like a butter knife manufacturer tried to make razor blades and never noticed the difference. The Pfiell tools are really the best, but I only recommend the finer ones. The wider cuts can be covered very well by the Flexcut brand (really very good and significantly less expensive) and wider than that I would recommend the Speedball tools when sharpened properly. The high-quality tools go super shallow angle for the wider cuts, and a slightly deeper cut results in a much wider relieved area and vice versa, like the tide running a hundred meters up a low-angle beach for a few centimeters of increase. The same goes for an E.C. Lyons tool. The narrow one is basically a narrower wide tool - if I could control the cutting tool that well, I would only need one size (not to mention the ink rolling over into the shallow cut). Wider tools still need steeper shoulders, so that is why I love the wider Speedball tools (once properly sharpened).

Great video, i love your work!

Great video! Do you need to start honing the tools with the slipstrop right away or can you use the Pfeil tools for a few weeks or so before buying a slipstrop?

Hello! I loved your video. What do you mean by a "compound"?? What is it made of?

thanks for such an informative video, which I find a little confusing is the difference between the small v gouge and the large one. (aside from how deep you can cut, can't you do the exact same thing with both?)

Thanks for this. I was wondering something. I have the hard lino type, grey board and when I cut the lino comes out clunky. I have had this lino for a while but I remembered when I initially got it and cut my cuts were alot sharper. Would you have any idea what may have cause this? I sharpen my tools regularly, so they are pretty sharp but I live in a hot high humidity country. Any recommnedations on a possible remedy? Putting the lino in the freezer?

So the carving is used for paint prints?? I've never seen this before and am curious.

could you also please share the brand of the honing tools and compound you are using? thanks,

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I've beeb viewing for a while...very informative. How do I become a supporter...?😅 m

hi, what is the carving-wood gauges you use?

Why not use pneumatic carving tools?

I don’t see any videos on your patreon.

Maybe stupid question here, but is there a reason to do this manually? why not using something like an X-Carve, 3D printing or even just like a Dremel? Like for someone doing this just as a hobby for the pleasure of doing it maybe it wouldn't make much sense but if you do this for a living then it would save you lots of time (specially with bigger prints)

Emil I want to join your patreon but I see it charges the full amount even though it's the middle of June 2023. Can you advise if this is the case please?

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Ohhhh....Pfail! I've googled them before now and I still thought people were saying file 😂