[susieq]

Gwen,
As long as you are making a list for Father Christmas and his helpers....and you are going to power carve.....you might want to ask for a micromotor. They are for fine detail work, not anything heavy, but they are such a valuable tool. The thing that makes a micromotor so much better than, say a Dremel with a shaft, is that there is no shaft. The handpiece is connected only to a power source by a light weight electric cord. You have complete freedom of movement while carving....just like a paint brush. Micromotors have improved greatly since I bought my first one and the improvements have trickled down to the less expensive models. I recently bought a Master Carver based on the higher rpms and higher torque. The whole works is only $300 including shipping where I bought it. I liked it so much I bought a second handpiece for it to keep a different sized collet in. The total purchase cost me less than I paid for my first Micromotor ($600) over ten years ago. I highly recomend a micromotor to anyone power carving and planning to do fine detail work. Santa.....are you listening??

[eric maycroft]

where doos a dremell come in to this?? or any dentistry tools.If its not a chisel or blade why use it ?? Are we wood carvers or engineers ??

[Baldy]

Relax Erick. Some of us are in fact engineers who also are woodcarvers. There are times when cleaning up a carving that there is nothing better than the plain old battery powered Dremel or your NSK or what ever may suit you. There are also woodcarvers who use nothing but power and do work which make the rest of us are very envious. If it works for you and takes away the unwanted wood use it! The art is not in the tools but in the artist.

[susieq]

Dear Eric,
the thread that you are posting in is the "POWER CARVING" thread.......
Power carvers consider themselves as much a carver as gouge and chisel carvers. I have always said it is not the tools but the talent of the people using the tool that makes a good carving. I have yet to be proven wrong on that point. If Grindling Gibbons were alive today, would he use power? I bet he would..........
carving to you, no matte what you use.

[Eddy Smiles]

Susieq... Gibbons? Isn't that the guy who ate granola for breakfast? Ha! Ha!

[susieq]

LOL.....yep, he was a Gibbons too. Not the one I was thinking of but maybe a decendant.

[SeaChips]

Originally Posted by susieq

Gwen,
As long as you are making a list for Father Christmas and his helpers....and you are going to power carve.....you might want to ask for a micromotor. They are for fine detail work, not anything heavy, but they are such a valuable tool. The thing that makes a micromotor so much better than, say a Dremel with a shaft, is that there is no shaft. The handpiece is connected only to a power source by a light weight electric cord. You have complete freedom of movement while carving....just like a paint brush. Micromotors have improved greatly since I bought my first one and the improvements have trickled down to the less expensive models. I recently bought a Master Carver based on the higher rpms and higher torque. The whole works is only $300 including shipping where I bought it. I liked it so much I bought a second handpiece for it to keep a different sized collet in. The total purchase cost me less than I paid for my first Micromotor ($600) over ten years ago. I highly recomend a micromotor to anyone power carving and planning to do fine detail work. Santa.....are you listening??

Susie,
I was actually looking at that Micromotor, and I think that is probably what I want to get. I saw a couple being used at the carving show in Hickory, so I thought it could be the perfect tool without something hanging over my shoulder. Thanks so much for your help

[susieq]

Gwen,
If you buy a Master Carver unit through this guy the shipping is free. I have bought both my first unit and the second handpiece through him. At that time the complete unit was only $299. I sort of wish I had just gone ahead and purchased the whole unit instead of just the handpiece for the second one as there was only $15. difference. I already had a second power source but for $15. I was being penny wise and pound foolish.

My only complaint about the Master carver is that they send you the 1/8 collet with it and an adapter for the 3/32 bit that slips down inside the 1/8 collet and when you withdraw a bit, you have to hook a thumbnail over the edge of the adapter to keep it from coming out with the bit. I did finally break down and buy the 3/32 collet for it because the adapter is a pain in the patoot. The guys name is Eric and he is great to deal with. I highly recomend them . The price was from about 3 months ago. It may or may not still be the same. Carving

http://www.artwooddesigns.com/supplies.html

[Dull Knife]

Originally Posted by Eddy Smiles

Susieq... Gibbons? Isn't that the guy who ate granola for breakfast? Ha! Ha!

Wasn't his name Euell Gibbons??? Jeez some of the stuff he ate?? I wonder if some of that 'stuff' is was killed him???? hee, hee.

[Eddy Smiles]

Dull Knife... Yeah! Too much roughage!