chisels
Sculptor's cutting tools
Chisels are hand tools with a sharpened metal blade used for cutting or shaping wood, stone, or metal.
The blade is driven by striking the handle with a mallet or by hand pressure.
To chisel is to cut with such a tool, or figuratively, to cheat or swindle someone: He chiseled me out of fifty bucks.
A chiseled face or body has sharply defined features, as if carved from stone.
Concave carving blade
- malletSoft-headed striking tool
- carveCut to shape
- mortiseCarved slot for joining
- tenonProjecting joint piece
dovetail · joinery · cabinetmaking · whittling · bevel · sharpening · firmer · paring
Recrystallized limestone rock
- graniteIgneous rock, quartz-rich
- limestoneCarbonate sedimentary rock
- sculptorArtist shaping solid materials
- carveCut to shape
pitching · mallet · splitting · quarry · masonry · lettering · monument · headstone
Pointed engraving implement
- inciseCut into material
- inscribeCarve letters into surface
- etchingAcid-incised metal print
- intaglioCarving cut below surface
woodcut · printmaking · stipple · glyphs · lettering · monogram · sgraffito · linoleum
gouge
Concave carving blade
tenon · dovetail · joinery · cabinetmaking · whittling · bevel · sharpening · firmer · paring · tang
marble
Recrystallized limestone rock
- graniteIgneous rock, quartz-rich
- limestoneCarbonate sedimentary rock
- sculptorArtist shaping solid materials
carve · pitching · mallet · splitting · quarry · masonry · lettering · monument · headstone · relief
burin
Pointed engraving implement
intaglio · woodcut · printmaking · stipple · glyphs · lettering · monogram · sgraffito · linoleum · copper plate
bolster
Strengthen or buttress
- punchStrike with fist
- forgeFurnace for shaping metal
- blacksmithIron-shaping craftsperson
steel · cutting · rivets · sheet metal · splitting · shearing · hammering · hardened · tempered · edge
Michelangelo
Florentine sculptor and painter
clay · statue · bust · form · figure · bas-relief · frieze · texture · patina · studio
- stonemason toolshammers, mallets, trowels, wedges, levels
- luthieryluthier, luthiers, violin making, violin maker, bow making
- sculpturestatue, sculpture, sculptor, sculpting, bronze
- woodworkingwoodworking, wood, saw, hammer, drill
- Workshopworkbench, toolbox, tool chest, tool cabinet, tool rack
- art studioseasels, canvases, brushes, palettes, paint
chiselswelders
Those who fuse metals
glue guns · adhesives · soldering irons · clamps · joiners
chiselsgives
Transfers possession freely
donates · compensates · reimburses · bestows · gifts
- hammer and chisel
- chiseled jawline
- cold chiselHand tool for cutting metal
- wood chiselHand tool for carving
- chisel tipFlat, angled writing edge
- stone chiselTool for carving rock
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