Wood carvers are a strange lot in that any piece of wood is seen as having potential for a carving project. The lowly golf tee has that potential so here are some caricature examples of using a golf tee as a carving novelty. The shape of the golf tee dictates the basic shape while imagination works to create something in that basic shape. These twelve examples were carved using a knife in slicing cuts in the Whittle-Carving style. Howard Feed-N-Wax was applied to the carved areas to give depth of perception to enliven the carved cuts. Read the rest of this entry »
A Step by Step Santa display was carved in 1998 to be used as an educational aid to show the progressive stages of how a Santa is carved from a block of basswood. In this model the basswood block is three quarters of an inch square by three inches tall.
Viewing from left to right the first step is to begin rounding off the top corners to begin shaping the stocking cap into the shape of a squashed down pup tent. Read the rest of this entry »