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Chris Pye Recommended Tools & More

If you refer to Chris Pye's excellent web site, click here to go to Chris' website you will find a fantastic amount of information that can be downloaded for free. It is a very comprehensive and user friendly site. Make sure you are aware of Chris's teaching programme in the UK and abroad and sign up for his occasional newsletters.
Auriou Chris Pye Basic Woodcarving Tools Ref: CP-A-BWS

British carver Chris Pye began woodcarving in 1975, originally studying under master carver Gino Masero. He is a member of the prestigious Master Carvers Association.

Forge de Saint Juery, home of Auriou Toolworks in south west France has, under Chris Pye's guidance, begun producing (revised and improved) Auriou woodcarving tools - a basic set of 7 to begin with and more to follow.

The basic set of 7 tools, which is being sold as a set consists of 2 flat, 2 medium and 2 deep sweep gouges and a V tool.:

# 3 x 8mm (1/4in.)
# 3 x 14mm (1/2in.)
# 6 x 8mm (1/4in.)
# 6 x 14mm (1/2in.)
# 9 x 8mm (1/4in.)
# 9 x 14mm (1/2in.)
60 deg. V tool x 10mm (3/8in.)

This set gives you many carving choices: deep gouges for shaping, medium for modelling, flat gouges for smoothing surfaces, and the ever-useful V tool; and with these tools you'll have the means of carving a wide range of subjects.

Auriou woodcarving tools have been among Chris Pye's favourites since he began carving. Uniquely their blades are forged by beating out a blank of steel to length before hammering the cross-section profile. This creates a very resilient grain structure in the metal which, when hardened to Rockwell 58C, underpins their great edge-holding properties.

Chris Pye has been working with Auriou on a re-design of their woodcarving tools since 2009. The new gouges have the older, 'allongee' style of blade that splays from the shoulder: they are lighter to use, the corners are more available for cutting, and their thin walls are of a uniform thickness.

Master Carver Chris Pye is confident that you these tools are some of the finest carving tools being made today and is proud to endorse both the tools and the caring, traditional manner in which they are made.

Now Available 2013 - 4 additional carving tools to expand your set to 11 tools - 10mm skew chisel plus 20mm Series 3, 6, & 9 gouges.

Available late Spring 2013 - new lettering tools from Chris Pye.

In the Chris Pye Set bundle which includes DVDs you will receive Letter Carving, Ornamental Carving and Woodcarving, Click here to see the DVDs

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Auriou Chris Pye Basic Woodcarving Tools

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Straight Gouge #3 width 8mm £24.40
Allongee Gouge #3 width 14mm £25.70
Allongee Gouge #3 width 20mm £27.79
Straight Gouge #6 width 8mm £25.40
Allongee Gouge #6 width 14mm £25.70
Allongee Gouge #6 width 20mm £28.40
Straight Gouge #9 width 8mm £28.40
Straight Gouge #9 width 14mm £29.00
Allongee Gouge #9 width 20mm £31.40
V-Tool 60° width 10 £36.00
Straight Skew Chisel width 10mm £18.60
Auriou Chris Pye 7 Piece Basic Set £194.50
8 Pocket Tool Roll £24.50
Auriou Chris Pye 7 Piece Basic Set with Tool Roll & 3 DVDs £290.00
Auriou Chris Pye Set of 11 Tools £289.99


Auriou Chris Pye Lettering Tools Ref: CP-ALC

Double bevel lettering chisels designed by master carver Chris Pye and hand forged in the traditional way by Auriou Toolworks in France.

Allongee chisels with a slim blade section Octagonal handles with brass ferrules.

This is the start of a range of lettering tools that Auriou will be making for Chris. Some gouges will be added during the 2013 autumn period.

Have you got Chris' book on Lettercarving Tools or his DVD? Books and DVDs can be seen by clicking here

Chris Pye introduces the chisels in this short video, click here

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Auriou Chris Pye Lettering Tools


Set of 7 Lettering Tools without tool roll £200.53
Set of 7 Lettering Tools with Linen Tool Roll £234.13
15mm Double Bevel Lettering Chisel £24.00
20mm Double Bevel Lettering Chisel £25.68
25mm Double Bevel Lettering Chisel £27.60
30mm Double Bevel Lettering Chisel £29.40
35mm Double Bevel Lettering Chisel £31.20
40mm Double Bevel Lettering Chisel £33.00
45mm Double Bevel Lettering Chisel £34.80
Set of 7 Lettering Tools with Linen Tool Roll & DVD £258.13


Chris Pye, LETTERCARVING IN WOOD. A Practical Course Ref: CHT0105

The first comprehensive guide to this subject to be published in a single volume. What makes this book truly different, and worthwhile, is that, at its heart, is a well-tried, structured course. Work through the progressive series of exercises and you will end with a strong grounding in lettercarving skills, in several styles of lettering.

Besides the fascination of lettering in its own right, there are the bonuses that such tool skills transfer to your other carving and are readily marketable.
 


Price: £19.95
Chris Pye, LETTERCARVING IN WOOD. A Practical Course

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Chris Pye - Letter Carving DVD Ref: RCDVDCP2


Chris Pye gives Rob Cosman bench side Instruction on Essential Letter Carving Techniques.
Lettercarving is one of the most useful carving skills you can have.
To cut letters beautifully into wood, you need to do 4 basic things, over and over, only adapting these same tactics to your letter size and shape. Chris shows you how. With the right method from the start, and a bit of practice, you can be carving whole alphabets, in far shorter time than you might have thought possible.

* What tools to use for letter carving

* Cutting straight sections

* Mallet techniques (using a mallet with either hand)

* Adding serifs

* Step by step carving of junctions

* Selecting gouges for curves

DVD - 1 hour 29 minutes 


Price: £27.06 (Including VAT at 20%)
Chris Pye - Letter Carving DVD

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