One of the challenges in chip carving, when you are just starting to carve, is to understand where the tip of the knife is currently is and how deeply you undercut this or that facet. Sometimes, but at the initial stages almost always, you think that you didn’t push the tip of the knife deep enough into the wood and you would have to do it a little deeper.. I suggest you, if you have such "problems", to do an experiment: draw several triangles of different sizes (not necessarily, of course, as large as the first one on the picture), make stop cuts inside each of them, and then start to undercut the facets a little bit, one by one until they pop out. And you will see that there is no need to put so much pressure on the knife and push it deep into the wood to completely remove one facet when carving the usual sized chips ðŸ’💛 . {carved in basswood} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #chipcarving #woodwork #woodworker #woodworking #woodworkingwoman #craft #designer #maker #chipcarver #design #woodcarver #woodcarving #differencemakesus https://www.instagram.com/p/B5cSg4xi7jq/?igshid=lqiz21a0vr1w
