Posted by: woodbeecarver in Knives
The Wood Bee Carver has always been “tinkering” since childhood play activity explored the activity of discovering to make things to fulfill curiosity of making things for play. Pocket knives were the tools of play through whittling and creative making whatever imagination guided to make into existence. Once in an old cross road’s country store the observation was made behind the counter of a wooden handled knife hanging on a nail that had been cobbled together using a pocket knife blade inserted into a wooden stick for a make shift knife of necessity. That idea made a home in the mind of this tinkering youth to use that idea someday. So, it was from childhood play came the tinkering with making “Other Knives” for carving purposes by salvaging usable blade material to be inserted into a wooden handle. Blades rescued from old broken or worn out pocket knives have found a new home in the “Other Knives” as well as other suitable metal material that could be utilized for a knife blade.
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Every carving project begins within the imagination of the artist and is enhanced by doing research to bring the imagined project into focus with additional visual memory. The “Three Confederate Soldiers” carving project allowed for learning more about the subjects to enhance the project. The soldier wearing the yellow kepi cap depicts a Calvary officer. The gray kepi cap on the second soldier represents the infantry soldier. The Artillery soldier is wearing a red kepi cap. The colors of the kepi cap and trim of the uniforms distinguished their respective branch of service rather than a whimsy of personal choice.
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