Whittle-Carving is carving using only knives to shape the wood.  Whittle-Carving is also “free hand” style of carving in that the basic form of the carving appears as the wood is shaped with the slicing of the knife.  “Free hand” is also an “imagination” guided process of shaping the wood to correspond with the image in the mind of the carver.  Every carving project is a learning project that is also guided by imagination at work in the carving process as the carver learns through the challenge of bringing what is imagined into a recognizable reality.

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