Carving and sharpening

I recently decided to add carving to my wood turnings.
Of course a new skill requires some new tools ;).

Just as in wood turning sharpening is a large part of making the craft fun and yielding good work, so this is true for wood carving.

I am not looking forward to putting these fine and expensive tools to a honing surface and screw them up.

After some research I decided to try out the WS3000 sharpening system. After all I have about every other sharpening “thing” in the shop. I like that it is a lubricant-less system and does no heat up the tools. The ability to see the edge while honing was the main attraction.

After receiving my WS3000 I decided it needed some accessories.
I have added a table,wood disks, stropping and lapping disks to the collection of accessories that came with the unit.

I expect this unit to meet all my sharpening needs other than lathe tools.

It looks like you’ve selected quality tools as your starting chisels for woodcarving, how do you like the palm chisels? I see there’s not a lot of carving talk here I’ll post something so at least there will be two posts.

I am an ocasional carver on my wood turnings.
I like the palm chisels for close quarter and smaller work on vessels.