Bits and Pieces are carvings  of various subjects and often carved for the fun of it .  Pictured above are Tee Noggins carved in golf tees.  Next are three monkey heads carved out of catalpa wood which is a nice carving wood not often used.  The third photo is of miniature jig saw cut outs that were given to me by my “No See-ums” creator friend Don Worley which I promptly carved and gave back to him. Read the rest of this entry »

The WOOD BEE CARVER’s first love in carving is to carve with a knife in a style called “Whittle-Carving.” The Pirate Bobble Head is one of the Scrapper Series of using small scraps of wood to fulfill the “old carver’s law: Leave No Wood Un-Carved.” The Santa carved using a basswood hen egg is an often repeated design that has been done for several years.  These “Whittlings” along with the photo gallery below represents some recent carving activity of “leave no time go to waste when one can be carving.” Read the rest of this entry »

WHITTLE FOLK TREE NOGGINS are faces carved into basswood tree branches three to six inches tall.  In a previous posting https://woodbeecarver.com/?p=1860 Tree Noggins were featured.  This posting will be simply a gallery of the latest Tree Noggins carved  using a knife  made by Charles Simpson of Alabama made with Personna floor scraper blade as pictured in the photograph to the left. Read the rest of this entry »

The Old Carver’s Law says, “Leave no wood uncarved,” so it became a challenge to carve faces out of a hard maple bottle topper on English Leather bottles.  Using the knife  in front of the bottles  in the photograph which was made by Charles Simpson out of Personna floor scraper blades, a slicing cut was required with every cut in this very hard wood.  Besides the hardness of the wood, the challenge is also to carve a different looking face with each carving.  Such a challenge is a way to learn to carve faces as every face carved becomes another learning experience that fulfills the saying: “The more one carves the better one carves.” Read the rest of this entry »

The WOOD BEE CARVER is primarily a knife carver with the photograph at the left representative of the various knives used in Whittle-Carving.  On the right are two pocket knives representative of the very first and most often used knives for carving.  The two knives on the left are small handled pocket knives that have been “tinkered” with larger wooden handles.  The knives in the center represent custom made knives that are also used in the carving process.  The top and the fourth down are Ralph E. Long knives.  The second knife was made by good friend Larry Piety.  The third knife down is an old Herb Dunkle knife and the bottom knife was made by Dave Lyons.  Even though each of these knives are adequate for carving, yet making one’s own knife is a fun project. Read the rest of this entry »