The Wood Carving Site dedicated to the designs, themes, and ideas for your next project! Background Work Using a Depth Gauge In relief carving of any style, there will be large amounts of excess material to remove from the background areas of your work. Using a depth gauge will make this work easier by removing the guesswork as to when enough wood has been carved away.
There are several quick depth gauges that you can make at home and throw into your carving kit. Take a new pencil and whittle the end to a long taper on one side of the pencil, mark the depth on the final cuts with a pencil along the taper. This can be dropped into the background cuts and used to judge how much more wood needs to be removed. For detail work as incised lines use a toothpick for depth gauge. Even a piece of cardboard can be cut and saved in your kit. The cardboard can include 'ears' on the side of the edge that can be slide along the high areas of the carving.
As your carving pleasure grows, you may wish to purchase a depth gauge from your carving supply catalogs or obtain a hemline gauge from your local sewing store. A sewing gauge is shown in the first image for this section. Article Courtesy of Classic Carving Patterns
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