Once the stone laborer has picked their wood, he or she begins a general trim process using gouges of various sizes. The gouge is a twisted front line that can remove immense parts of wood effectively. For harder woods, the craftsman may use gouges sharpened with more grounded slants, around 35 degrees, and a mallet like a stone carver's. The terms gouge and engraving are accessible to disorder. Adequately, a gouge is a device with a twisted cross fragment and an engraving is a gadget with a level cross territory. In any case, capable carvers tend to imply them all as 'draws'. Smaller models may require the wood carver to use a sharp edge, and greater pieces may require the use of a saw. Notwithstanding what wood is picked or instrument used, the wood stone specialist should constantly cut either transversely finished or with the grain of the wood, never in opposition to what might be normal.

After the cutting and finishing is done, the skilled worker may seal and shading the wood with a variety of trademark oils, for instance, walnut or linseed oil which shields the wood from earth and soddenness. Oil similarly offers a sheen to the wood which, by reflecting light, empowers the observer 'to examine' the shape. Carvers just all over use shimmer Varnish as it makes too much shining a surface, which reflects so much light it can jumble the shape; carvers suggest this as 'the toffee apple affect'. Articles made of wood are a significant part of the time finished with a layer of wax, which anchors the wood and gives a fragile splendid sheen. A wax finish is almost sensitive be that as it may and proper for indoor carvings.