What tools and common sense do you need to make stone carvings?

Stone carving (Hui 'an Stone Carving) requires the following basic tools.

Sculpture knife: a clay sculpture tool, used for scraping, cutting, sticking, picking, pressing, plastering clay sculpture and modeling.

Stone chisel: it is a steel rod-shaped stone carving tool with a wedge-shaped or conical lower end and a cutting edge at the end. According to the shape of the cutting edge, the lower edge can be divided into sharp chisel, flat chisel, semicircle chisel and tooth chisel.

Stone carving hammer: directly hitting the stone with the hammer surface to produce a rough and heavy sculpture. Chopping axe is used to directly chop the stone surface and cut out neat and parallel thin lines, which can enhance the sense of direction and rhythm of sculpture.

Bow handle. Calipers for sculpture. It can measure the distance, has two ivory-shaped clamping feet, can be opened and closed, and can change the curvature of the clamping feet at any time.

Proportional arcuate handle. It is a measuring tool for sculpture enlargement.