1. Those who want to learn olive stone carving must have a certain foundation in painting, and secondly, they must have three-dimensional imagination. The quality of your painting will directly affect your work. Unless you have strong three-dimensional imagination, you don't need to draw and draft.
2. Tool preparation: pencil or oil-based pen, toothbrush, flat knife, bevel knife, round knife, V-blade knife (sharp knife), clamps and sandpaper of thickness.
3. You can make the knife yourself. You can buy round steel, sharpen it yourself, and install a handle. As for the size, it depends on the work you want to engrave. 1~3mm is fine. Any clamp that can hold the olive pit will do. Use a printing bed and two nylon holes dug in the middle to secure the olive pit.
4. Using a clamp when you are a beginner can prevent the knife from slipping and hurting your hand. When carving, you can be more courageous if you have a fixed position. After a period of time, you can find the feeling without using the clamp. Regardless of whether you use a clamp or not, just use the knife when carving. The middle finger of your hand must press against the olive pit to control the distance of the knife and avoid the knife from slipping and injuring your hand. When carving, don't use a knife that is too big, that is, don't carve too large pieces of olive pit fragments, because the olive pit is relatively brittle and will damage the parts that should not be carved (observed under a high-power magnifying glass). Generally, one knife can carve Divide the dropped area into three knives and that's it.
5. When carving, carve out the outline first, and carve in turn while carving, step by step until the carving is fine. Don’t stare at one place all the time. Generally, flat-blade knives are commonly used, round-blade knives are used for engraving round bottoms, V-blade knives (pointed knives) are used for straight lines, and oblique-blade knives are used where none of the three knives can be used.
6. Next, you need to be patient and meticulous.