The highest quality basswood is used to manufacture these chip carving practice boards. This board includes several different rosette patterns and it is great for advanced as well as for expert chip carvers. We pre-carve examples so you could see how different chips should be carved. Click on the image below to enlarge the pattern.

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We transfer the patterns using our computerized system to achieve the ultimate precision. A regular mechanical pencil is used for drawing the chip triangles (so it is easy to clean-up) and a red pen is used for highlighting the middle dash lines.

The board features mostly 3-corner chips arranged in circles and rings to form rosettes; these are standard chips with all three facets carved with the same angle. One rosette features 4-corner chips; those chips are carved by using vertical cuts on two sides.

Board Size: 4 x 8 x 1/4″ (10 x 20 x 0.6 cm). The board is 1/4″ (6 mm) thick; it is designed for carving with the angles up to 65 degrees. With the steeper carving angles and/or deep undercutting it is possible to cut through the board; use solid material under the board while carving to avoid accidents. We found that the board thickness is perfect to avoid/unlearn a heavy undercutting habit/mistake.

The board surface is flat but not polished; you may see some very minor tool marks from a thickness/surface plainer on the board. If a surface is sanded the wood fibers will keep some abrasives from sand paper that may dull a chip carving knife faster; therefore we don’t sand the boards. Please contact learn@readNtry.com if you would like to get a sanded practice board as a custom order.

Don’t forget to sign and date your practice board; it may be helpful when you find your carved board decades later. Read a story about how the chip carving practice board project started, tips, feedback, comments and see examples of carved practice boards.