Wood carving (in sculpture) and woodworking (in cabinet and furniture making) are two different fields.  Although similar in many ways, the tools for wood carving are not quite the same as those in woodworking.  The basic styles of wood carving tools include the chisel, gouge, short bent, long bent, skew, parting tool and fish tail. The shapes, widths and bevels were all developed for specific purposes to carve decorative motifs with as few cuts as possible. In wood carving the bevel on the tool may be at a lesser angle and the cutting edge is generally thinner.

Sculpture House hand forges and grinds, over 600 different wood carving tool styles and shapes. These wood carving tools are forged from 1095 high carbon steel, tempered in oil, then batch tested, in house, with a Rockwell Black Diamond steel hardness testing machine.

Beyond supplying hundreds of specialty tools, Sculpture House also offers such unique wood carving supplies as wood carving knives, rasps, large combination rasp/files, pneumatic wood carving tools and a variety of unique wood carving tools crafted by our master forgers and grinders. Mallets, canvas carrying tool rolls and slip stones for sharpening wood carving tools are also available.

Pneumatic tools, composed of a handpiece and the pneumatic tool and used with an air compressor, can reduce bulk material in about a third of the time standard handheld tools require. Common shapes of the cutting ends of the pneumatic tools are: short bent, straight chisel, gouge, fishtail, and parting tool.

Many wood carving tool sets are available, each economically supplying the wood carver with a mix of chisels, gouges, parting tools, and/or other wood carving tools. 

Visit our wood carving store to view our high quality wood carving chisels, gouges, parting tools, short bent tools, wood carving tool sets, sharpening stones, mallets wood carving knives, pneumatic tools, and accessories.