A life-long wood carver shares tips for getting started in this rewarding hobby. A pocket knife and a piece of wood is all you need to start.

While some River Valley Carvers create relief carvings of landscape scenes, others practice chipping away at a block of wood until it turns into a miniature bird or small animal. There are members ...

Why one man has spent 30 years carving only abstract wooden spoons. ... It’s called "Ditch Digger," and the wood used in the tiny sculpture is from the big walnut tree from his grandfather’s ...

Carving a tradition in wood. ... brothers John and Ben — with grandfather Benny McDaniel at the end — all silently working on Stars and Stripes deep-relief projects, carving intricate waves in ...

“Put the wood to your ear and it talks to you,” Shook explained. “I came to carving 12 or 13 years ago to do relief carving and I have yet to do relief carving. I sat next to a guy who did ...

Local artists Dave and Barbara Shields attended Monday’s class to help students work on intricate, wooden low-relief carvings of wildlife, which they drew with the help of a taxidermied fox ...

A 74-year-old novice wood carver is creating a 6ft (1.82m) carved wooden pillar for Comic Relief. Annabelle Braven, from Dunster in Somerset, called it her "impossible project" after starting out ...