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wood carving
Hawkdancer:
Stuck,
Thanks for the info, I'll check them out.
stuckinthemud:
Safety glove? Really? The possibility of drawing blood teaches good technique: gloves lead to a tighter grip, a cavalier attitude toward the blade, blunter tools and a refusal to learn to use a tool equally well with either hand. I never allowed gloves in any of the carving classes I taught, never had a serious cut, except when one student reached over his knife to grab a coffee, even he only needed sticking plaster.
Hawkdancer:
Yeah, I know! OSHA rules and union rules or some such! Got to remember to keep the coffee on the working hand side >:D. Being left handed, I am fairly able to work with either hand, but nowhere near equally when it comes to fine carving. Most of the classes around here require the glove, though.
Hawkdancer
stuckinthemud:
I'm also naturally lefty, taught to be a righty, so I'm mixed handed, but, if the students need to switch hands, they'll have to take the glove off, put on a different glove and then carve? Doesn't encourage good technique... I got lazy last summer and stopped switching hands, now I got tendonitis so I gotta carve with the 'wrong' hand, my own stupid fault, but an important lesson in there somewhere
ohma2:
Stickinthemud post us up a carving to view ,like looking at other peoples work
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