Woodcutting Tools
Woodcutting Tools
Having acquired the necessary blank wood blocks (lime wood) and planing them flat I, made my own set of woodcutting tools using watchmaker's tools, which are made from higher grade steel, and inserted them into wooden handles.

Above: set of woodcutting tools made from watchmaker's tools.

By Simon Wintle
Member since February 01, 1996
View ArticlesCurator and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.