Category: Whittling

Master facial proportions and balance, from realistic faces to exaggerated expression caricatures, with study sticks as your reference. Here are 9 tips for carving faces from Expert Carver Harold Enlow.

For a complete beginner or an expert looking for an insider tip, we broke down the basics for you with these 10 whittling tips and tricks below.

Around here we take handmade gift-giving seriously! We’ve put together a round-up of Christmas past and present and the very best gift ideas from Woodcarving Illustrated Magazine.

Carve tiny caricatures with expert small carver, Jack Price! Sample his new book, Carving Small Characters in Wood with this tutorial on how he carves hair.

How does Santa know if children have been good throughout the year? Award-winning woodcarver Russell Scott has a theory. Santa goes undercover! Preview 6 Santa wood carving designs from Russell Scott’s Carving Undercover Santas.

This simple wood carving can be done in just a few hours with a dowel rod and your whittling knife.

These woodcarvers are expressing their love of food with these realistic food sculptures! We’ve all heard the term “too pretty to eat” but what about art “too realistic you want to eat”? Here are two culinary carving masterminds that will have your stomach rumbling — but remember they’re made out of wood! 

Soap carving is a great way to introduce children on how to carve wood.  It is also an economical way of finding out if you like carving enough to graduate to a whittling knife, gouge, and wood. This Whale of a Tale project is fun to learn this soap carving technique, but the real fun happens in the bathtub.

This little porker is big on personality but can be completed with just a few basic tools. Beginners can expect good results with their first attempt, and more experienced carvers can fill a pig pen in a weekend.