[danyoyo]

hi guys, can you tell me please,your opinion about Henry Taylor woodcaving tools, which are better for hard wood Henry Taylor or Phiel..?
thanks..!

[AlArchie]

Henry Taylor tools come to you "factory ground" and will need your help in getting them to working sharpness.

Pheils are fairly well sharpened and honed.

My opinion only; either will work fairly well in hardwoods, but I think most all carving tools unless specially ordered are sharpened for general use, which does not mean hardwood. As Taylors need to be worked over, anyway, you should be able to put a little steeper bevel on them when you do the initial sharpening.

Again, my opinion only; your choice of bevel angles is going to depend a LOT on what you find works best for you, and may take some experimentation. Some carvers seem to do well with the factory bevels in any wood they carve and others demand custom grinds for different woods.

Al

[heineda]

Hello,

Ity is my inderstanding that the Pfeil tools will have to be re-ground to a lower angle for carving in hardwoods. I use the Stubai tools, and would never consider any other. They are of the finest possible quality, and are ready for hardwoods riight out of the box.

Carving,
Dan Heine

[Dylan]

I have a set of the PFEIL "Swiss Made" tools, and they have served me well no matter what I've carved on.

Dylan

[Paul_Guraedy]

I have a few Henry Taylor tools, along with a smattering of others. I have also used most of the major brands and have come to the conclusion that it is usually a "preference" made by the carver, rather than an actual superiority of one tool brand over the other.....as long as we are talking about one of the major brands.

I started out with a mix, settled in on Flex Cut and then moved to Pfeil. I "prefer" these to my other tools. Can't say why exactly. They just seem to be more comfortable to me.

But then, I am a "multigenre" carver and would not attempt to carve hardwood (or even the softer ones) exclusively with hand tools. This may be why the Pfeil tools work for me.

I do not think you could go wrong with Henry Taylor, or Stubai, or Flex Cut, or Two Cherries or........so long as you stay with one of the established brand names.

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

My Stubai needed a bit of work before they were usable and they are good tools, but my Ashley Iles were ready to go and I prefer them over the stubai.

[buckbeans]

I recently started a thread on this very subject and I got most of the replies favoring the taylor tools.
Wood craft recently had a sale on this brand and I bought one tool at a time using it on black walnut and apple . If it worked well I kept it. If it didn't I would take it back. So far I have yet to return one.
I was very pleased with the ability of the chisel with an 18 to 20 degree angle to maintain an edge possibly better than a pfeil.
I have no hesitation now to grab the Henry taylors for hardwoods. I still favor the pfeil's for basswood though.
I am very surprised how much better the taylor was for hardwood.

[danyoyo]

thanks everyone i really appreciate it