How to Carve Celtic Lettering - 4 Curves

I love incising the curves; it feels like dancing, and definitely more like carving than does chopping in the uprights or serifs.
As before, there is a pattern, an approach to cutting them, and once you have the confidence I'm sure you'll find joy in them too.
If you are not sure which gouge to pick for a particular curve, you'll find a very useful workshop on this channel: Choosing Gouges for Curves, here
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Notes and Alphabet for Carving Celtic lettering:
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[@tinaforster]

I enjoy calligraphy and just beginning to get my head around carving. But my stumbling block is sharpening any chisels for woodwork in general, but the curved blades fill with dread, incase I ruin them. I'm okay with knives, but I guess it's down to trial and error, a journey I continue to persevere with, but your video has just motivated me push on. Thanks, very helpful👍👏🤩

[@woodcarvingworkshop]

@tinaforster - Don't feel intimidated! Carvers have been sharpening their tools for hundreds of years and we all have to learn how to do it. Look at the sharpening videos on our channel and just take ONE tool and works at it step by step. If something goes wrong with the tool, start again. Carving tool blades are tempered to around an inch of the shoulder so, worse thing: the tool will end up a tiny fraction of an inch shorter... Get one gouge right before moving on to another. It's so much easier than calligraphy!

[@tinaforster]

​@@woodcarvingworkshop Thank you. Already selected a block of soft pine to use as a step up. Just need to decided on the font🤔 😉 I'm 5'2", just a little short for reaching the top shelves of cabinets🤦‍♀️😬🤣🤣