Precision Cutting Tools
Six Prong
This old school tool is still used. This will take off large amounts of ice quickly. To be used like a chisel. It also can be used to nock off corners in the rounding process.
Good tool to have.
Layout jig
This tool helps you create parallel lines with a precise measurements. Works great for making cubes or any rectangular shape.
Try and have two of these, a small and a large. This tool is used almost every day.
Carpenter’s square
This is a standard square with a block of wood attached to it. The wood makes it so the edge can be place on a block of ice to help make accurate measurements and square up corners or your block. Try and use two sizes a large and a small.
Scratchy board
This tool is key for making
discs, columns and basically
rounding of any corner. It is
about 4” x 6” and has nails
or decking plates as teeth,
the nails work better. When you make this tool remember the more nails the less aggressive this too will be.
Sphere Shaper
This is a plastic dog bowl with a large rim. Simply screw nails through the rim at an equal depth and this will make any cube into a perfect sphere. The key is that the corners can go into the bowl while the screws round the rest of the surface. This bowl is about 6” round and can make various size spheres.
Compass
This is can be purchased at any hardware store for $5 and it works on any doll rod. The original design uses a pencil replace that with an ice pick or nail. It can make any size circle up to 36”. Any larger and I use string and ice picks.
If you know of a tool that should be listed in this section please contact us. You can take a picture of the tool write a brief description and tell us if you recommend or do not recommend it for other carvers. Email it to us and we will be happy to put it on the site.
