When you get tired or bored of working with one knife, often you feel the need to buy more tools, develop your skills and work more. That’s when the option of the best carving sets comes to mind. Getting one like that – and you’ll have the whole arsenal of tools at your disposal, ready and proper for making your carving life exciting and interesting. But how to decide what’s best?
Of course, there are more options of separate carving tools than sets. However, that doesn’t make it a bad idea at all.
- Getting a set instead of many separate tools will, firstly, save you money and trouble.
- Secondly, quite often with sets of tools you get a stropping kit or some accessories that are a very pleasant bonus to your carving time, especially when you don’t need to buy them separately.
- Finally, it’s a good gift for somebody who treasures the hobby since no one would refuse a nice new set of tools.
You might like your current ones alright, but there is always the possibility of improvement, isn’t it?
Selecting a nice set depends mostly on what it consists of. Since getting a set means you want to get as much use as possible from one purchase rather than a few, always make sure you know what comes with it.
Some manufacturers don’t really bother and give you exactly what you need – the tools. Some add a polishing compound to the mix, making it a little bit better already. And then there are the best carving sets possible – with stropping accessories, or with wood, or with carving patterns, sometimes altogether (a diamond, really!)
It might seem too expensive to some of you, but if you think about how many goods there are in one package and, for example, divide the sum to the number of pieces, you’ll understand – getting the whole set together is a great saving tool because the price for one piece would be much less than if you were buying it separately. There are quite a lot of examples for that, you’ll see for yourself if you look for any brand on Amazon. So it’s worth a try, really.
Of course, it also matters how detailed is the information about the contents of the set. If there are measurements of tools, if there are some tutorials or videos on using those, basically you need to understand perfectly well what’s inside or it doesn’t really make sense to buy a whole lot. Economizing is great, but losing in quality or fulfilling your needs because of that won’t do.
And, surely, you know to rely on reviews of other people at least a little. Not everything is true, yes, but still, in the reviews there will be pictures, there will be descriptions so you’ll have an idea of what you are going to get and if it’s what you’re looking for. Read up on what these tools are made of, if they are of a proper quality and all that information that might seem a little too obvious to explain.
Read up on the websites-observers or blogs, such as Woodcarving4u, for instance. Check out wood carving forums and video reviews on YouTube. It’s worth your time since you’ll be completely sure of what you’re getting and if it’s of any use to you at all. Find those best carving sets and enjoy them!
