Having trouble getting your carving tools razor sharp? In Sharpening Simplified, Everett Ellenwood will show you a simple proven method to get your carving tools properly contoured and sharp each time you sharpen them.

Ev is an award winning carver, with more than 30 years of carving experience. He has taught carving classes for two decades, and was an independent distributor of pre-sharpened carving tools for 17 years. Over the years Ev perfected a unique, easy to learn, sharpening technique which he taught to hundreds of carvers. This process was so well received that his students kept telling him "make a video", you need to share this!

Professionally made in a studio, using 3 cameras, his 110 minute video is divided into 9 chapters:

1. Introduction
2. Sharpening Positions
3. Sharpening Stones
4. Carving Knives
5. Gouges / Veiners
6. Flat Chisels
7. "V" Tools
8. Micro Tools
9. Conclusions

Each segment of tool sharpening starts with Ev showing what each tool should look like when it is properly sharpened and why; then he actually sharpens the tool to show how to achieve a sharp and properly contoured tool. Comments accompany each process as he shows you the steps.

Everett Ellenwood has been a carving instructor for more than 25 years. He has made two best-selling videos, Beginning Woodcarving and Sharpening Simplified.

In this one DVD you will be given all of the instruction that is needed to take any carving tool from dull to super sharp. The teaching is concise, straight forward, simple to understand. Everett does a wonderful job of including the whys of his technique and explaining the goals of the process. He takes the student from one tool to the next and builds on the lessons learned. The first time I tried his method I was able to recreate those beautiful curls he displays on his cover and that had never happened before. Now carving is more productive, precise, and the most important thing, it is fun again. I was on the verge of quitting until I learned how to keep my tools sharp using his method. The ironic thing is that I have had other carvers ask me how I keep my tools sharp when before this DVD I was the one who was mystified about the tool sharpening process. This DVD has saved my carving hobby from being trashed like many of my projects. I strongly suggest you purchase this DVD whether your tools are sharp or not. There is something here for everyone.