Relief carving knife?

[tm5825]

Doing relief carving which knife do most of you'll use to make all the stop cuts. I got one carving knife and a few that I made. But to me it seam hurt to me. I am new at using the knifes. Maybe dull blade. Tony

[papasar]

I'm so used to chip carving that when I do stop cuts on a relief carving I use my chip carving knife.
Bill K.

[twilli227]

I use gouges to make the stop cuts. The gouge matches the curve of the cut.

Todd

[pallin]

For straight stop cuts I use a chip carving knife. For curved stop cuts I use a gouge with a sweep that matches the curve.

[tm5825]

Thank you very much I'll get a chip knife. I have some gouge to work with. Again thank you. Hopefully this will help me a lot with my relief carving. Tony

[Dicky]

I also find a chip knife easy to control for stop cuts.