Carving a Chinese Chop with a Dremel Tool

When you buy a Japanese/ Chinese calligraphy kit they nearly always come with an uncarved (blank) chop (stamp). That way you get to choose for yourself which symbol you use with which to sign your pieces.

The material the flat chop is made out of is quite soft. It's very easy to carve this into any design you wish. In this video we use a Dremel tool, which is a motorized carving device. You can also easily use any standard carving types of tools.

A Dremel tool is simply a hand-held motorized device with interchangeable heads which lets you drill, carve, sand, buff, etc. things that involve rotation. Here's an example on Amazon -

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