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Bonus Traditional Ornament Pin Patterns

Bonus Traditional Ornament Pin Patterns

Bonus holiday pin patterns based on a traditional Christmas ornament design By Glenn Stewart In Woodcarving Illustrated Holiday 2013 (Issue 65), Glenn Stewart demonstrated how to carve a holiday pin based on a traditional bulb-shaped ornament. Below are patterns for two other variations on that theme.   CLICK HERE to […]

by November 1, 2013 Holiday Carving, Patterns & Projects
Double-Sided Holiday Ornament

Double-Sided Holiday Ornament

                  Ingenious Turkey/Santa ornament is a real attention getter By Glenn Stewart I carved this turkey one autumn for a fun project. A few weeks later, I was carving Santa faces on different things, like clothespins and pencils. The turkey was close by, […]

by August 21, 2013 Fall Carving, Holiday Carving, Patterns & Projects
Holiday Head-Start Articles

Holiday Head-Start Articles

A collection of holiday articles to give you a leg up on hand-made gifts. We know not everyone has been a subscriber from the beginning, so we’ve gone through out back issues and pulled out a few of our favorite holiday projects to give you a head start to make […]

by July 8, 2013 Holiday Carving, Patterns & Projects
Man in the Moon

Man in the Moon

Simple carving uses just a knife and a scrap of basswood By Dave Stetson In our printing of Dave Stetson’s “Man in the Moon” article (Whittling Volume 2), several photos were flipped—and YOU get to reap the benefits of our mistake! A corrected PDF of the full article is available […]

by June 7, 2013 Patterns & Projects, Whittling
Folk-Art Fish Keychain Holder

Folk-Art Fish Keychain Holder

Create a matching keychain holder for all of your carved fish keychains. By John Reichling In the Woodcarving Illustrated Summer 2013 (Issue 63), John Reichling demonstrated how to carve a folk-art fish keychain. He also provided this keychain holder. To make the holder, cut the outline of the design and […]

by April 25, 2013 Patterns & Projects, Spring Carving
Carving a Stone

Carving a Stone

Creating a realistic rock from wood By Kenny Vermillion Photography by Carl Saathoff In Woodcarving Illustrated Spring 2013 (Issue 62), Kenny Vermillion offered a few simple techniques for carving a rock out of wood. Attached below is a full step-by-step article to carve, texture, and paint a stone carved from […]

by February 5, 2013 Patterns & Projects

2012 Woodcarving Illustrated Best Carving Design Contest Nominees

Members of the woodcarving community, take a bow­. You sent a record-breaking number of entries, of outstanding quality, to this year’s Best Carving Design Contest and then turned out in huge numbers to vote. Your enthusiasm, skill, and creativity were a sight to behold. And this happened in a year […]

by July 24, 2012 Best Carving Design Contest Archive

2012 Woodcarving Illustrated Best Carving Design Contest Whittling Category Nominees

There were 16 entries in the whittling category. The editors narrowed the entries down to four nominees, and the winner was selected from those nominees in an online vote. Scroll down to see all of the nominees in the whittling category.

by July 24, 2012 Best Carving Design Contest Archive

2012 Woodcarving Illustrated Best Carving Design Contest Walking Stick Category Nominees

There were 17 entries in the walking stick category. The editors narrowed the entries down to three nominees, and the winner was selected from those nominees in an online vote. Scroll down to see all of the nominees in the walking stick category.

by July 24, 2012 Best Carving Design Contest Archive

2012 Woodcarving Illustrated Best Carving Design Contest Stylized Category Nominees

There were 57 entries in the stylized category. The editors narrowed the entries down to eight nominees, and the winner was selected from those nominees in an online vote. Scroll down to see all of the nominees in the stylized category.

by July 24, 2012 Best Carving Design Contest Archive