A block of basswood awaits the sharp cutting edge of carving tools to open its potential of a carving project. A New Year awaits with untold carving potential for any carver to put carving tools to the wood to carve new projects. A block of wood holds a secret awaiting to be revealed by carving away wood surrounding the secret. The carver’s mind holds a secret of creativity that awaits being revealed during the carving process. The only way each secret will come to life is for the carver to carve rather than just dreaming of carving. Read the rest of this entry »
Woodcarving Illustrated hosted a Spit-N-Whittle booth at the Artistry in Wood Show, Dayton, Ohio November 14 and 15. Individual carvers were scheduled to demonstrate carving a project for an hour as a way to interact with show patrons and offer encouragement for wood carving. What follows are photographs of some of those carvers during their demonstration hour and visitors listening and watching. Read the rest of this entry »
Welcome to the WAG School Woodcarving: http://wagcarvingschool.com/default.aspx
The WAG School of Woodcarving holds 3 day carving events that join student with some of the finest carving instructors in the Southeast. Included in the cost of tuition is full room and board. There is no need to try and find a hotel or good place to eat. We take care of all that for you. All you have to worry about is becoming the best carver you can be. Read the rest of this entry »
A very great and humbling honor was bestowed upon me when the members of the Caricature Carvers of America elected me along with Mitchell Cartledge of North Carolina as the 2009 new Members into CCA at their Annual Meeting in Branson, Missouri the week end of September 26, 2009.
CCA came into existence to encourage caricature carving as well as showcase caricature carving as ART within the woodcarving genre. This is accomplished through sponsoring an annual mail-in caricature carving competition, seminars in various locations across the nation, publication of CCA carving projects, awarding Merit Award Certificate and Ribbon to deserving carvers of caricatures at wood carving shows and each member of CCA being an ambassador of caricature carving.
A more detailed description of CCA is described at their web site: http://www.cca-carvers.org/
Fred Cogelow receives Best of Show honors for his carving of a young lad sitting on a log while reading a book. Fred was also one of the instructors during Congress week of seminars. Read the rest of this entry »
Denny Neubauer, the founder and maker of “Denny Knives and Tools” is first and foremost a carver. He made his now famous and favorite carving tools first for himself and then founded a manufacturing company to serve the carving community with his speciality tools. In the photograph Denny is teaching at the recent AWC International Woodcarvers Congress a class on carving on Denny Knife handles. Read the rest of this entry »
Don Worley created the No See-Ums and has been teaching these delightful carving projects to various students. The ones pictured here were carved by Caricature Carvers of America member, Tom Brown. Don taught a class for the Eastern Woodland Carving Club, Converse, Indiana last year where Tom Brown and Gary Freeman became “hooked” on carving No See-Ums.
Gary Freeman carved these versions of No See-Ums. More about No See-Ums can be seen in two previous postings on November 21, 2008 and February 2, 2009.
Wayne Shinlever of Knoxville, Tennessee learned from Don Worley how to carve No See-Ums at the 2008 Dollywood Carving Show and since Wayne is a Santa carver he carved his version of a No See-Ums.
No See-Ums have become very popular with carvers who have tried these easy and fun projects. Thanks to Don Worley for introducing this very “addictive” carving project to the carving world.
Today, February 12, 2009 is the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln. In the left hand column of this blog under “Cool Links” click on a link entitled “Abraham Lincoln Historical Site” which is about the “Congressional Funeral Delagation” standing in front of Abraham Lincoln’s Springfield, Illinois home. The site shows photographs of carvings of the twently two congressmen depicted in the historic photograph along with historic biographical information written by historian Gary Kersey.
