Quick Bevel/Swivel Knife Q

[PapaWolf]

Before I go and leave this thing unfinished or screw it up, after you cut with your swivel knife you bevel the outer or inner edge? And you bevel to open the cut up a little and make it more defined right?

[Regis]

Well, Yes, yes, and maybe. There are a lot of reasons to bevel one side or the other but, I can tell you one where you bevel both sides of the cut. For example, you may want to show and animal's foot touching the ground and you would bevel both the foot (to begin rounding up the foot) and the ground (to begin showing it comming nearer to you). Same hols true for many things like rock on bare ground or squirrel sitting on a log.

The best way for me to visuallize one side or the other is with an oak leaf carved standard then inverted.

There are lots of folk here that can do better job of explaining.

Regis

Edited April 11, 2008 by Regis

[TwinOaks]

Yes, papawolf, that's the basic premise. For 'standard' carving: draw a circle (arbitrary object); beveling the outside of the line will have the effect of 'raising' the circle. Alternately, if you carve the inside of the line, it would 'sink'. In inverted carving, the entire circle would 'matted', or compressed. This makes what I can best describe as a negative image. I think you're talking about standard carving. Regis has it right regarding beveling both sides too.

If you bevel properly, you won't actually open up the cut, but will lower one side of it.

[ferret]

Might be worthwhile getting Al Stohlmans "figure carving finesse", it explains about reverse bevelling and double bevvelling and lots of other useful technical stuff.

[Regis]

Ferret is right, that is a GREAT book.