What is the function of the round-mouth square-mouth carving knife in woodcut prints and how to use it?

Carving knives, as the name implies, are carving knives, and craftsmen often use them to carve various materials such as wood, jade and stone. This paper mainly talks about the carving knife of wood carving. An excellent master must use his meat cleaver very skillfully and have superb skills. The following will introduce the types and uses of wood carving knives one by one.

Carving round knife

The cutting edge is arc-shaped, mostly used for round teeth and round teeth.

Horizontal transportation of round knives is labor-saving and can adapt to ups and downs and small changes. Moreover, the line of the round knife is uncertain, so it is flexible to use and easy to grope.

According to different uses, the models of circular knives are different, and the size range is basically between 5 cm and 0.5 cm.

The two corners of the circular carving character's knife edge should be ground off and made into an arc, otherwise, when carving clothes lines or other dents, it will not only be pushed, but also damage both sides of the dented road.

If you want to make relief, you should keep the two corners of the knife edge and use the function of its corner tip to carve the corner, so you should equip two kinds.

Round knives also have positive and negative points. Straight-edged circular knives with inclined plane in the groove and straight back are most suitable for circular carving, especially in the stage of discharging and digging. The inclined plane is on the back of the knife, and the straight groove is an anti-circular knife. You can eat wood deeply, gently move the knife or scrape the ground, and the relief is used more.

Carving flat knife

The cutting edge is straight, which is mainly used to flatten the concave and convex on the wood surface to make it smooth and seamless.

Large models can be used to chisel large scales, with a sense of blockiness and proper application, such as the brushwork effect of painting, which is strong, vivid and natural.

The acute angle of a flat knife can carve lines, and when two knives intersect, the toe of the knife can be removed or the pattern printed. Woodcarving figures in Sweden and the Soviet Union mostly use flat knives, which have a strong flavor of wooden knives.

Carving oblique knife

The bevel angle of the blade is about 45 degrees, which is mainly used for chamfering and polishing the seam angle and hollow seam of the work. If you carve the corner of a character's eye, an oblique knife is better.

Knives can be divided into forehand oblique cutting and backhand oblique cutting to adapt to all directions. In boxwood carving in Shanghai, it is usually used to carve hair. Knife transportation adopts the way of choking and twisting, and the carving effect is vivid and natural.

Carving jade machete

The cutting edge is curved, which is a smooth knife between a round knife and a flat knife. There are two kinds: arc and oblique arc.

When flat knives and round knives can't be used, they can be used instead. It is characterized by gentleness, neither as straight as a flat knife nor as deep as a round knife, and is suitable for concave ups and downs.

Carved steel knife

The blade is straight and the sides are inclined. Also known as "printing knife".

The blade mouth of Sinosteel is in the middle, which can keep the front straight and prevent the surrounding parts from shaking. Used for printing characters' clothes and patterns.

Carving triangle knife

The cutting edge is triangular, because its front is on the left and right sides, and its sharp point is on the middle corner.

It is mainly used for carving hair and decorative lines, and is also a common tool for printmaking and watermark woodcut.

When operating, the triangular tip pushes on the board, and the sawdust is spit out from the triangular groove, and the part pushed by the triangular tip draws lines.