caricature carving - tools for rough out

[Robert R]

what is every ones favorite tools for carving caricature roughouts?

[JIM QUILICI]

Right now.......I'm using "ol stan "........(sheet rock knife......made by stanley #299 ) some people call it...." ol reliable" ...not me ........I call it by it's real name....STAN.....lol

Jim Q

[Blake Lunsford]

Ron Wells/Mike Shipley roughout knife works for me!! I also use a Denny roughout knife that works good too. I also have a good Drake knife I use for details. As long as it is sharp, it will work!

Blake

[Kenny_S]

Shilpley, Denny, Murray, Flexcut,Drastra, whatever I grab a hold of.

[Anthony Filetti]

Robert,
An assortment of #9 sweep gouges works well on roughouts as it matches the blade cutting them out. That and a good knife will do you well!

[Iowa Carver]

Denny Ortel V Gouge and 1 /4 V-tool and as Tony does a number of #9 gouges and of course my Shipley knife.

Corey

[Soggy]

Ron Wells/Mike Shiply medium size,and detail size. I picked up a Stanley #199 aka "Old reliable" and find that to be very useful and I'm using it more and more all the time.
Wayne

[Mitchell]

No offense, but you don't actually carve a "roughout" (noun). You buy them. It's a terminology thing. To take off excess wood, you do "rough out" (verb) the carving.

Maybe you should be more descriptive with your question...more specific, I mean.

To rough out, I use large gouges, a Denny "Ortel" tool (or Drake), and/or a 'larger' knife. By larger, I mean longer than 1 1/2". I'm partial to my Allen Goodman upsweep and my Ralph Long straight blade knives.

[Gulf Coast Handyman]

Drake, Ralph Long, Denny, Helvie.

Dave

[big dave]

a allen goodman or ralph long knife, and denny soft v