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This video is me talking about a set of 7 tools from Auriou: 5 gouges, a fishtail gouges and a fishtail chisel which, together with the Auriou Lettering Chisels, precisely incise the alphabet I have designed for the download below. You can of course use these gouges for your normal carving too.
The wider gouges are 'allongee': splaying the blade from the shoulder, making these tools lighter and with more visibility and knife-like corners at the cut. Forged to great resilience and edge-holding, as always, by Forge de Saint Jeury.
Important note: I have designed the complete set (chisels and gouges) to cut a particular Trajan Roman Aphabet (font) at 45mm. You can download this accomanying alphabet, full size and with all sorts of helpful notes, below. Other styles and sizes of alphabets will almost certainly need different gouges.
These tools should be available from:
| 04 June 2024 10:46
Darrin - You can, and it wouldn't hurt you to have both those tools in your armoury. A lot has to do with how you make use of the tools; for example, you can often usually make the #5 do the work of the #6. And it doesn't take much of a change in letter size to throw your regular sweeps out.
You want to get used to carving the letters by feel rather than precise number, if that makes sense.
| 31 May 2024 20:04
Hi Chris. These are beautiful tools, but are not always readily available unfortunately. You've said elsewhere that as long as one has a tool reasonably close to what you recommend for the various projects, one can make it work. I assume this apply to lettering gouges as well? I'm finding it difficult to find the exact #6 gouges you recommend in your Lettering in Wood book. Is it possible to get by with say #7 or #5, which for some reason seem easier to come by? Thanks!
