"Audrey Bergeron-Morin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Slashing with a 5/8" chisel worked very well-- > > What did you use? A woodworking chisel, or a pinking chisel, or > something made especially for slashing?
I ended up buying a woodworking chisel & rubber mallet from Lowe's. The only pinking tools I could find were from Green Man Forge, and the guy who makes them didn't reply to my email until after I'd already gotten my tools. As it turns out, the chisel & mallet work very well: the chisel is shaped to be comfortable in the hand, and the length means that I can set a piece of scrap wood in my lap and cut the design into the fabric bit-by-bit. Only thing to be careful of is hitting too hard and splitting the wood, sending a sharp chisel shooting into one's thigh. This is pretty easy to prevent. I forget if I mentioned this or not, but getting a long slash by putting one right after the other works, although it does tend to have a little jag where they meet--once the slash is properly fulled (by washing & tumble drying), this shouldn't be a problem. But if using a fabric which cannot be washed, this might be an issue. -- Robert Uhl <http://public.xdi.org/=ruhl> Homines est! Dici omnes! Soylens viridis HOMINES EST! _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
