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.
From time to time there comes an inner creative urge to the Wood Bee Carver to tinker again with making Other Knives for personal use utilizing rescued pocket knife blades. The process includes reshaping the blades into experimental shapes to enhance the Whittle-Carving experience as well as shaping the handles. Here is the latest results of this modification urge.
From time to time there comes an inner creative urge to the Wood Bee Carver to tinker again with making Other Knives for personal use utilizing rescued pocket knife blades. The process includes reshaping the blades into experimental shapes to enhance the Whittle-Carving experience as well as shaping the handles, many of which have been modified from broken knives. Here is the latest results of this modification urge.
The stuff we learn as a kid and stored in our memories become the benchmark of experience that influences some of the things we do throughout our lifetime. When we enter the Twilight Zone of our advanced years we tend to reflect upon those memories to give a sense of where we have come from on our journey of living.
The Wood Bee Carver has been known to have carved miniatures as one expression of Whittle-Carving of using only knives to carve. Here are seven recent carvings of two inch miniatures that are now on display at Peter Engler Designs in Branson, MO.
The Old Carver’s Knife Law:” One knife is dandy; two knives are handy and three knives are never enough.”
As the old saying goes, “Nothing ventured is nothing gained,” therein is the motivation within undertaking a “venture” which becomes an “adventure.” Venture is defined as “an undertaking involving chance, risk or danger.” Or, “a venture is a project or activity which is new, exciting, and difficult because it involves the risk of failure.” Add to this meaning of “venture” is an expansion of it meaning to become ADVENTURE which is defined as “an unusual and exciting, typically hazardous, experience or activity. Adventure is a journey of life as in learning, imagination, new experiences, experimentation, inventing, and hobby that expands the mind and skills with opportunities to grow and learn.
Carving is an art form and art in its various forms is basically an “interpretation” of the imagination of the artist. Woody of Toy Story is a cartoon figure toy who became the subject carving project interpreting Woody as a caricature figure. In 2011 Jesse of Toy Story was carved as a caricature and now Woody has been carved to join Jesse as a caricature figure.