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The multiple lining tool is a burin chisel used in engraving with multiple cutting blades for making parallel lines to create a hatching effect.. The multiple lining tool is also called the multiple tool, lining tool, [1] multiliner, [2] liner, shooter, [3] multiple graver, comb, and half-tone comb.
Burin from the Upper Paleolithic (Gravettian) (ca. 29,000–22,000 BP). In archaeology and the field of lithic reduction, a burin / ˈ b juː r ɪ n / (from the French burin, meaning "cold chisel" or modern engraving burin) is a type of stone tool, a handheld lithic flake with a chisel-like edge which prehistoric humans used for carving or finishing wood or bone tools or weapons, and sometimes ...
A burin diagram, showing the handle, shaft, cutting tip, and face. [1] The bend in the shaft is especially associated with wood engraving. [2]A burin (/ ˈ b j ʊər ɪ n, ˈ b ɜːr ɪ n / BUR(E)-in) is a steel cutting tool used in engraving, from the French burin (cold chisel).
Other terms often used for printed engravings are copper engraving, copper-plate engraving or line engraving. Steel engraving is the same technique, on steel or steel-faced plates, and was mostly used for banknotes, illustrations for books, magazines and reproductive prints, letterheads and similar uses from about 1790 to the early 20th century, when the technique became less popular, except ...
Neolithic stone chisels from Schleswig-Holstein, Germany around 4100 to 2700 BCE A selection of modern wood chisels. A chisel is a wedged hand tool with a characteristically shaped cutting edge on the end of its blade, for carving or cutting a hard material (e.g. wood, stone, or metal).
Burin (engraving) (French burin, "cold chisel"), a tool used in the art of engraving; Graver (surname), an older English name, still common; Graver basis; a neologism derived from "goth" and "raver", primarily used as an alternative term for Cybergoth
Woodcarver at work Wood sculpture made by Alexander Grabovetskiy. Wood carving (or woodcarving) is a form of woodworking by means of a cutting tool (knife) in one hand or a chisel by two hands or with one hand on a chisel and one hand on a mallet, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculptural ornamentation of a wooden object.
Those two chisels are used in combination with a masons driving hammer. Once the general shape of the statue has been determined, the sculptor uses other tools to refine the figure. A toothed chisel or claw chisel has multiple gouging surfaces which create parallel lines in the stone. These tools are generally used to add texture to the figure.