New Carver Needs a Recommendation - carving small eyes

[Mitchell]

Originally Posted by Spirit Carver

Thank you for all the additional suggestions. The problem I have when using a knife to carve small eyes is that when I set my stop cuts and try to chip out around the iris, I usually break material off around the outside of the iris or in the pupil, hence ruining it and then I have to hollow out both the pupil and iris to try to save the carving. I will practice on scrap pieces with only a knife but it seems easier to me to use a veiner for eyelids and a small gouge to carve around the pupil (iris area). For the small eyes that I carve I may be better off with the tiny 2 mm dockyard tools rather than a knife. Anyway, could someone please direct me to pictures of their carvings (insert images) in which they carved the eyes out just by using a knife? I am interested in seeing the results obtained by just using a knife. Thanks again!

Jeff

For pictures - Did you check the links that I supplied? There are some threads with pictures - lots of them. Matter of fact, there is a thread that asks the same question -> Eyes on a carving! Plus links to other sites not just on this site.

Here's an example:

It was found here: http://woodbeecarver.com/?page_id=385

Also, not just eyes, but relating, take the quiz at the bottom of this page: http://www.littleshavers.com/Faces.html