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Chip Carving Central-

Your Supply Store For All Your Carving Plates

Carving plates for chip carving in a variety of styles and sizes. Favorite carving plates of beginner and experienced chip carvers. Carving plates can be finished in many ways such as; wood stain with clear coat, unstained with clear coat, painted on the outer surface with the carved area showing as lighter wood color.

 Carving plates come in variety of designs and sizes. Carving plates have suitable surface areas to apply carving patterns to be cut with chip carving knives.  

The choice of carving plates size and shape is determined by the complexity and appearance of the carving patterns that will be cut by chip carving knives. A detailed and complex carving pattern would not look good on a small carving plate, and would be difficult to do with chip carving knives.

Carving plates are made from Basswood, a preferred wood by most carving plates carvers. It typically has a clear grain without dark and light growth rings. Carving plates made from Basswood have an easy to cut but firm wood texture.

The carving patterns you lay out on your carving plates and cut with your chip carving knives will become a piece of art, and possibly a family heirloom.

 Many carvers take portions of different carving patterns to put on their carving plates that they will cut with chip carving knives, and combine them into unique carving patterns of their own to apply on their carving plates.

Chip Carving Central carries a good variety and supply of carving plates for applying carving patterns and cutting with chip carving knives