A local knife maker, Pappy O’Machearley, commissioned the WOOD BEE CARVER to carve a caricature likeness of him posing in front of a blacksmith’s anvil shaping a red-hot steel blade.
Whittle Scrapper Heads are novelty carvings that are the end result of carving practice heads. Every carving project is a practice in experiencing “the more one carves the better one carves.” There is never a wasted moment when doing practice carving because one can experience the interplay between creative imagination guiding the dexterity skill of the carving hand maneuvering the slicing tool to shape the wood to correspond with the imagined subject.
Making carving knives using blades from old junk pocket knives has been a fascination for the Wood Bee Carver. The four knives in the photo above are the result of rescuing four blades from a well-worn old souvenir knife with “Paris” and the Eiffel Tower etched on the plastic handle cover. The only clue as to its origin was the etching on the master blade of the name “PRADEL” which is a famous cutlery company founded in 1920 in France by Mr. Pierre Dubost. The first photo below depicts what a similar pocket knife looked like in better condition showing it multiple blades while the second photo is the junk knife used to make four carving knives.