PRIMITIVE WOOD CARVING TOOLS

Primitive  Wood Carving
From the age of Neolithic man wood has been fashioned from stock pieces be it in pole or a block form.
This was mainly along utility lines for such items as spears or utensils including such products as North American wood fish hooks believe it or not!
Down the ages the first form to emerge was that of the human figure which became more and more refined. Towards the Medieval period where it enjoyed a kind of renaissance especially in a religious form in the churches where the use of wood became extremely widespread and of very high artistic quality.
Of course along this journey of wood sculpting the tools to render this evolved as well.

Tools for Primitive Wood Carving

Adze

 This involves scooping out wood in reverse motion similar to that of raking in the garden

Mallet choppers

 Removing wood from piece from the  side sideways action chopping down. Heavy head axes have a similar principle to the normal axe. 


Greenstone Hand Palm Wood Carving and sculpting knife
Greenstone Hand Palm Wood Carving and sculpting knife


Greenstone Wood Carving and Wood Sculpting Chisel with Wood Handle
Greenstone Wood Carving and Wood Sculpting Chisel with Wooden Stock Handle



Maori Carving tools
In ancient times Maoris carved wood with shaped Greenstone fashioned tools such as choppers and chisels. After their contact with the mariners at the time of Cook they came into contact with and obtained some supplies of steel mainly large nails and spikes. These they flattened and fashioned into knives and chisels

Types of Green stone chisel
There has been reported that there were a few types of tools used  here , There was a wooden shaft mounted greenstone  head with the dimensions and edge being similar to today's chisel with widths of about an inch wide. This chisel could be used with a mallet type hammer to effect cutting. Other tools include a spike type tool out of one piece of greenstone with a very narrow cutting point at the tip for finer detailing.

Greenstone Wood Carving and Whittling Hand Chisel
3 Flat sided point Greenstone Wood Carving Chisel


Then there was a knife type stubby flat stone shaped and sharpened with an oblique edge for removed wood in the carving by a slicing action.The tool was shaped for placing in the palm of the hand. There was also probably available an adze type stone tool for roughing out wood carving.

The features of using these primitive tools was that there was a limitation to the depth of cut and the time taken to complete the work . Also the stone wood carving tools did not give as clean a cut as contemporary  tools


Primative type Wooden Chisel Mallet





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