Reverse-bevel gouge?

[TobyB]

Am I not looking in the right places?

Just been carving the legs for a shaker-type pedestal table - having done the dovetails I was trying to fit the leg to the curved pedestal. Using my AI carving gouges realised I wanted a tool with a sharp flat convex external surface and the bevel on the concave internal face ...

I haven't got one, and looking around web sites I'm not finding these in the obvious places ... unless I'm just not looking ...

 

[AndyT]

I think what you are describing is not a different tool, it's a different way of sharpening. For many sorts of carving cuts you need a bevel on both sides of the blade, so your cut can be curved. But it's something you define and maintain on the tool yourself.

 

[woodbloke]

What you're looking for is a scribing or pattern makers gouge - Rob

 

[Alf]

Ah, you're looking for an in-canel firmer gouge. Um, such as... these. No idea if they're any good, as mine are all old 'uns. Very useful tool and a puzzlement to me as to why they're not more readily available. Sure, you could regrind an out-cannel, but crumbs, what a fuss and waste of steel.

ETA: Scribing. That's the word I couldn't put my finger on. Thanks, Rob.

 

[AndyT]

I think Rob's right - if when you wrote 'sharp flat convex external surface' you meant 'straight along the length, but curved across the width'. Like this:

 

[woodbloke]

ETA: Scribing. That's the word I couldn't put my finger on. Thanks, Rob.

We aim to please Alf :lol: :lol: - Rob

 

[TobyB]

Thanks everyone - now I know I'm looking for an in-canal gouge, I've searched and found a few options ... and for my own sake went back to various sites selling under titles like "carving tools" and "chisels" and didn't find them listed there, so at least I wasn't being stupid!

 

[Richard T]

I had an idea that these are called paring gouges ... did a google with that - lots of hits.

 

[bugbear]

Sure, you could regrind an out-cannel, but crumbs, what a fuss and waste of steel.

Not if it's a (really) old laminated one!

BugBear

 

[Alf]

A sensible warning, but I was meaning the modern ones.

 

[bugbear]

A sensible warning, but I was meaning the modern ones.

Yeah - I don't suppose there are that many gouges old enough to be laminated!

I'm pretty sure someone on OLDTOOLS ran into the issue though.

BugBear