It’s not every day I get to encourage our readers to play with knives, but whittling wood might just be humankind’s second oldest playtime hobby — right after throwing large rocks into bodies of water ...

Capturing wildlife so it is available to be enjoyed at any time does not always mean encaging an animal, or even taking a two-dimensional photograph. Armed with a chisel or other carving tool, a chunk ...

NEW BRIGHTON — For one New Brighton man, a simple hobby is the best stress reliever — the intricate, woodcarving art of whittling. Cliff Glenz, 62, started whittling in 1988 when he took a ...

Growing up in western Queensland as World War II drew to a close, young Ted Barraclough would carve toys for his brothers out of the timber that grew on his family's farm. Ten-year-old Barraclough ...

Carve the concave bowl of the spoon first. With a curved hook knife, start in the middle and work your way to 1/4-in. from ...

1. Make sure your knife is sharp. 2. Your knife must be really sharp! 3. Don t try carving with a knife that isn t sharp ... You get the point. For more than 30 years, the good-humored Lubkemann, who ...

Does a man whittle in the woods? He does. In this case, the woods are near Garforth, Yorkshire, and the man is a coppice craftsman by the name of Dan Watson. Snuggled in the corner of a farm, ...

Chris Whillock “wood” like to introduce others to the art of carving. To that end, he’s opened the Whittling Shack at 917 N. Broadway in Rochester, and it includes all the bells and “whittles” to get ...