“Woodcarving is more the journey than the destination,” is a saying I often use in reference to the actual carving process as being the joy of carving.  The finished carving is nice to view on display, give as a gift, deliver as the completion of a commission or enter in competition.  Outside of that, the real joy is doing another carving, the journey of carving. 

Having said all that, yet there is value in making a “Sentimental Journey” by looking and studying one’s earlier carvings, kind of like a “benchmark” to see where we have been on the carving journey.  This post will show some photographs of such “benchmark” carvings. Read the rest of this entry »