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 ...

along highway 101 in the town of Garberville is a G whiz pit stop. Why if nothing more than to marvel at what one man did with a single piece of wood or logged exact. This is the famous one log house ...

“What do you think?” I said to my hunting partner as I reached across the tent to hand him the piece of wood I had been whittling. He looked at it for a minute and said, “It looks like a hot dog with ...

In a wide open room near the back of his house, full of 2x4's and small knives, Walt is whittling wood. It's how he spends most of his free time. "If you're in a hurry, don't whittle," he said with a ...

PALERMO — Dorothy Creamer started wood carving more than 20 years ago. She first saw it done in Southern California, tried it and liked it right away. When she and her husband, Bernie Creamer, moved ...

WHITBY — Wood chips lay scattered on the blue tablecloth in front of Lloyd Thomas, his hands sweeping them away as he chats with passing curious carvers. The chunk of wood on the table is starting to ...

Mike Budesilich remembers sitting on the back porch in the small company town of Cowell, watching his grandfather carve farm animals from a small piece of wood. “He carved chickens, ducks, horses, ...

Dec. 2—THE WARM and quiet basement of a Victorian era home on Elm Street in Manchester is a laboratory for two young brothers who delight in drawing, whittling and chiseling history and nature in wood ...

Georgia Boyse has three distinct wood Santa Claus carvings, each representing a different time period in her 36 years as a wood carver. One is a small ornament, while the other is more sleek and ...