Maybe you could enhance the gouge to make it part of the design? That is the idea behind the Japanese practice of Kintsugi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kints

Maybe you could enhance the gouge to make it part of the design? That is the idea behind the Japanese practice of Kintsugi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi