“Whittle Folk Spuds” –  an article written by Don Mertz,  is  in  the  current Sring 2011 issue of Carving Magazine  http://www.carvingmagazine.com/issues/current.shtml  This “how-to” instructional article offers a step by step verbal description accompanied by appropriate photographs.   The article  in Carving Magazine is  in  more detail that a previous posting entitled “SPUDS ” https://woodbeecarver.com/?p=4554   Also in the same issue, my good woodcarving friend Mark Akers has a tutorial on carving a Civil War Soldier as in the photograph below.

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