Beginners Guide – Carving is Fun

Wood Burning Inside: Do’s and Don’ts

Wood burning, also known as pyrography, is an incredibly fun art form; you're basically drawing with fire! Resembling a thick metal pen, the wood-burning tool heats up and uses interchangeable tips...

Is Wood Burning Hard to Learn?

Wood burning is the art of using a heated tool to create designs on wood pieces. Its art can be simple or advanced, but is wood burning really as complex as it looks? Is wood burning a hard hobby to...

How to Whittle a Cute Bunny: Step By Step Guide With Pictures

This fun and cute bunny whittling project is perfect for beginners and takes very little time to make. Here is what you will need to make the dog: Sharp whittling knife2.5" x 1" x 1" block of...

The Whittling Knife: Will Just any Knife do?

Over the past 20 years, I have had the chance to whittle with several dozens of different types of knives. Some of these knives ranged from your basic every day pocket knife to specialized wood...

10 Easy Ways to Soften Wood For Carving and Whittling

Sometimes you are going to run across a particularly hard piece of wood to carve and knowing how to make the wood softer and easier to carve can allow you to safely continue carving. The best...

The Best Wood for Whittling and Wood Carving

Over the years, I have carved dozens of different species of wood from the super soft balsa wood to the super dense live oak. Each species of wood vary in carving difficulty that beginners and...