#19 Shaver Tool

This tool was designed to dig around corners and smooth the surfaces inside a sculpture. It has a comfortable handle, is pretty, and is well made. Unfortunately it just doesn't work.

Oh, it will carve sand all right. It just does so slowly that I wind up not using it. It has proven useful for delicate outside smoothing, but I have better ways of doing that.

It was a useful step in the evolution of tool making, because it showed that having an edge that projected adze-style back toward the user did make it easier to control. This also needed less pressure for carving. The scorp-style tools are the more practical outworking of this idea.