Craving in dried state

[firefly]

How many people have tired this tech?

Making your general shape first in the wet state and then craving the design out by hand after it has dried?.....without breaking the piece.

[Metalman]

I love carving into the Dried clay. I have a number of 1 to 2 mm woodcarving gouges - these work great on the dried clay - and once you are done you dampen the clay and put additional wet ornamentation on to your piece.
Scalpels, knife blades and files all work great for this.
One Note: Keep you blades good and sharp so you get nice clean cuts in your clay

[firefly]

And yes I am aware I misspelled carving... 

[Russ Nobbs]

<lol>
You are not the first. It's a common misspelling as they both look so similar.