Miniature Shelf Squatters are carved out of an inch and half by inch square block of basswood in the Whittle-Carving style of carving only with a knife. The first Shelf Squatters were carved twenty five years ago and for several years were one of the carving projects used in woodcarving seminars and part of carving shows display table.  As a novelty carving project, it served as a simple carving project for the practice of a variety of faces beginning with a square cornered block.

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