The WOOD BEE CARVER’s first love in carving is to carve with a knife in a style called “Whittle-Carving.” The Pirate Bobble Head is one of the Scrapper Series of using small scraps of wood to fulfill the “old carver’s law: Leave No Wood Un-Carved.” The Santa carved using a basswood hen egg is an often repeated design that has been done for several years.  These “Whittlings” along with the photo gallery below represents some recent carving activity of “leave no time go to waste when one can be carving.”

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Each Miniature Santa stands under two inches and stands on a three quarter of an inch base carved out of basswood and finished with artist oil paint and boiled linseed oil.

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ESQUIRE JAKE was carved out of a three inch by one inch square block of basswood with a knife.  Freshly carved with out any  colored finish he still has a regal and yet lazy look about him that gives him a posture of distinction.  Esquire Jake along with all the other “Whittlings” in this posting show the result of “whittling away time” in a most productive and yet relaxing manner.  After years of whittling, the WOOD BEE CARVER continues to live out his philosophy that states, “Would be carvers would be carvers if they would carve wood,” along with his other often repeated saying, “the more one carvers the better one carves.” So dear reader, if you want to carve better then get busy and carve more or at least “whittle away time.”