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10/14/2026

🍨 Try using the Arc blades to make a single round scoop. With practice, you can get it real smooth and all it takes is a single twist. The different sizes and shapes of blades will change how your scoop turns out. This one is using the Medium Rounded, and makes a decent sized circle. The slight arc of the Arc blades helps grab the clay, and instead of pulling, twist the whole tool to cut a clean little spiral.

10/09/2026

A combination of Arc blades and detail blades can create interesting and intricate patterns. The depth you get from the Arc adds defining grooves, like this circle divot with fanning grooves. The detail blades fill the space between with relief edges and add the final triangular cuts. Those triangular cuts in particular make a big difference even though they are the smallest addition. The round divot shape next to the first set of Arc grooves creates these small triangular spaces around the edge. That’s exactly where the Pointed blade fits in, cutting away a tiny triangular piece of clay and making the edge of the dimple expand into a star shape. These small details will fill with glaze and darken, leaving distinct focus points on the finished piece.

10/08/2026

What the 🦆

These silhouettes are actually fun to make. The body is a Medium Pointed Arc blade, and at first it just looks like a short scoop with a trailing line at the end. Add shapes for the head and wings with some detail blades, and your brain will fill in the rest of the details.

10/06/2026

There's a reason for everything in BuschKraft products. The slot in the metal ribs is no coincidence. It gives you a reliable finger grip that you can vary as you work, and it also fits the Forge handles when you want an extra dimension to hold on to.

10/03/2026

The P-Shape and Chisel were both originally designed for relief carving. Exactly these moves where you want a sharp edge on one side, tapered off on the other. They obviously have many more uses, but going back to this style is one of my favorite types of carving. The subtlest of edges, textures, and lines show up, making every stroke particularly meaningful.

10/02/2026

Arches and fins 🏝️

10/01/2026

🔼🔽🔼🔽 The Pointed Arc blades can make wonderfully simple designs. For this one, it helps to have some guides but they don't even need to be this defined. The first groove is a full stroke, be sure to follow through and scoop out of the clay to achieve that nice tapered point on each end. The first set of grooves can be pretty closely spaced, but leave a tiny gap between. The tapered shape is what creates miniature little triangle shapes along the top and bottom guides. The Pointed blades conveniently fit into these triangles, this time instead of following through, stop abruptly and pull the blade straight out to break it off right on the line. Practicing these two types of strokes will give you two different effects, and is especially useful when working along edges like this.

10/01/2026

Tightly spaced divisions leave little room for detail between. Adding negative space shapes and repeating create a stained glass effect, bold borders and sharp corners.

09/30/2026

⏹️⏺️ The Rectangle and Circle are two of the most basic shapes, but these ribs are essential for all sorts of work. The Rectangle straightens walls and smooths flat surfaces, has both sharp and rounded corners, and the guides make it easy to measure or standardize your lids.

The Circle compresses and shapes bowls of all sizes, and works great for dividing a piece into sections too.

09/29/2026

A quick look at the completed butterfly vase. This piece is mainly focused on the actual butterfly, but the most interesting part for me is the backside, where it needed a way to tie it all together, essentially connecting the wings into one continuous design. Carving negative space shapes first helped build some structure for that, and adding parallel lines around all the shapes created an overlap effect to finish it off. The wings end up wrapping mostly around, but transition into an organized weave of lines that brings them together.

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