Wood Carving Skill

Wood Carving is a kind of special skill. It takes patience, concentration and time. There are so many beautiful wood sculpture on sale at market, but do you know how does the craftsman work on a piece of wood? In brief, there are mainly three kinds of wood carving skill.

1. Handmade carving. This wood carving skill takes longer time and more concentration. Usually, a carver begins a new carving by choosing a quality wood, decided by the approximate size and outer-shape of the wood the carver wishes to create, if the carving is to be large, several pieces may be fix together. Once the general shape is made, the carver may use a variety of carving tool for creating details. (some of the tools are carving knife, gouge, Chisel, V-tool and veiner) After the carving is finished, the carver may seal or color the wood with some natural oils, such as walnut or linseed oil which can protect it from dirt and moisture.

2. Paper model. This is the most common used skill in this field. Some of the wood work manufacturers do not have skillful carvers. So they often draw out the shape of the characters they wanted to carve on the wood on paper, and then paste the paper on wood for the carvers work on the wood by following the lines on paper. The paper model wood carving is much time-saving, but the finished wood carving is not vivid enough.

3. Machine. Machine carving is also often used in it nowadays. As we all know machine can just work on the flat board, so machine carving is impossible to create a three-dimensional work.

By comparing the sculpture skills listed above; we can easily answer the question "why handmade carvings are much expensive than other?"