How To Use Clay Carving Tools

Our carving tools are a must-have for artists who need their art to be flawless.

How to use clay carving tools. I also love carving. But certain jobs in the pottery studio like trimming and carving can be made much easier with the right tool. Like wood carving each tool has a shape your can use in your design work.

Luckily this is easy to test pull off a small piece of the clay you intend to use and roll it in your hand until it forms a cylinder about 1cm in diameter and about 10cm long. These are sturdy tools for the price. The quill is often my preference as it has a slight flexibility to it that is fitting for drawing flowing and lively lines.

Create Striking Details with the Best Loop Tools for Ceramics. I have never tried carving but am so intrigued by it. For my needs both the smaller and larger sgraffito tools work best with leather-hard clay.

Here are the different clay tools. I begin incising a drawing into the clay with an African porcupine quill or a ball stylus tool. Open your sealed bag of clay and pinch off the amount of clay that you want to use.

When carving clay consider the first lines incised into the clay to be the skeleton of your design. The tools have a durable and easy-grip design for better handling and movement control that allows you to shape model or carve everything with precision and attention to. Duct tape these to a piece of skewer or a pencil.

And yes I have or had almost all of them. The carving tips can be very sharp so it good to use caution when carving. Cut a ¼-inch-deep slit into the end of your dowel.