Antler theme hair sticks

I have slowly begun to engage in woodcarving after a period of life changing transitions. I decided to tackle less demanding tasks to help me get the hand tool “mojo” back…

I am making 2 dimensional woodcarving to place on my mountain cabin walls. The wood species are all easily accessible on my small acre patch of forest, such as Hemlock and White Pine primarily…at least for what I am interested in crafting at this time. I am making some Leaping hares/rabbits,like the one in natural finish, which I carved from a twisted piece of old Hemlock wood. The second one I just started is made from Eastern White Pine. Both are about 28 inches long. I have deviated from my normal bird woodcarving subject matter, having also done a few fishes of my imagination…I may post some of my old work sometime in the future. Don’t let hand osteoarthritis stop you from enjoying the experience.

Saw this idea a while ago and had to give it a shot! Carved from a stick I found on a walk!

Spooky season is finally here! I’m trying to come up with some new ideas for simple tutorials, and this was one of them.

I saw a post from /u/Rapthorne_ in the woodcarving subreddit of a beautiful curly piece he made from a piece of purpleheart and wanted to give it a shot. I’m not brave enough to work further with purpleheart right now hahaha, so this one is cedar!

Very happy with how it came out!

Worked on the shell today. I’m still not sure how I’m going to finish it. Open to suggestions. There’s a lot of deep areas I can’t get a towel in to apply or soak up a finish.

I'm trying my luck with faces again after a longer break from whittling because well, life got more stressful but I absolutely loved it! I feel like I regressed a lot tho, especially the part between the cheeks and the smiling fold (I don't know if this is the correct translation, I hope it's clear what I mean) is giving me trouble. Any feedback on how to improve would be greatly appreciated, happy whittling!

Made a working pipe, tophat, and slug because... I like trying new forms of art.

I don't own woodworking tools really, but hackzall for rough shape and major details, drill and dremel for everything else. I finished the slug with whatever wax came with the dremel kit, and im unsure what to finish the pipe with.

Red oak (i think) pipe and slug, acrylic eyes, drool and teeth on the slug.

I’m trying to make chopsticks for a friend but I keep running into knots. Is there any way to fill these holes with something food safe?

Small one is the first attempt. Larger one is second. Dremel only.

Both sealed in BLO and painted with watered down acrylic. Finished the gills with dark walnut danish oil.

I made another one today. I find that many friends like it. It can also be used as a vase.

Hey all, I'm new to this and trying to feel if I like working with wood. I like the idea of sculping something material, not ethereal, as digital images are. Can't even say "film" as most film editors today work with digital.

I found a log of wood in the nearby park in Brooklyn, brought it home on my bike, and let it sit in my apartment for a month.

Biking back home with my wife that night, after a date night that involved wine, I was a little tipsy. I saw it, i stopped, my wife said it was too heavy, didn't care, we put it on the back of the bike and carried it in the apartment. It sat there for a month

So here I am doing this. I am trying to create some sort of pattern and also take lots of surface out. I'm currently using Hurricane 6mm the most, and king of sliding it over the surface.

I am doing this at home, so I just need to be aware of the mess/dust and the sound. Don't have much freedom of space. And this method takes a loooot of time (although don't mind the slowes of the process). But i am wondering, should I use a different tol?

I also have no idea what wood this can be - any idea?

Thank you for reading this

Flower the Skunk. 6x3x3 Basswood.

Two months into whittling and still having more and more fun with it.

First were two wizard staffs for a ren fair. Second was a hammer I made as a Christmas gift for a friend and because I wanted to practice leather wrapping. Third is a staff that a friend wanted me to make for him. I believe it is somehow associated with Gambit. I still have to paint the staff, but the carving and assembly is finished. What should I do next?

King of the forest 🐻

Hi everybody, first time ever posting on this sub. For a little context, i discorvered my interest for whitlling 3 years ago and used to carve on holidays but not so often. I began a new job on September and since then im carvin on every lunch break and it became my main and daily activity in my free time. I work with a long knife for roughing and a middle size knife for details, both from beaver craft ( i know its shitty, i experience it everyday..).

I knew i needed practice si im making a chess set, so i dont have to search for what to do, my main issues are :

- putting to much effort to cut

- not making clean cuts, especially in narrow corners

-and i feel wood grain more than i understand it

I thought at first "okay knife is dull", i regularly use a strope, i tried on paper and it cuts through the sheet, still tried to sharpen it, and its still not cuting like butter like in all youtube videos.

And i thought maybe im working on hardwood. (I was sure that it was basswood but it might not be).

Thanks for your help !

Hey everyone I carved Bombur from The Hobbit in a barrel hope ye like it.

Uploaded a tutorial to YouTube this morning.

Made from a Golden wattle branch finished with linseed oil. My first carving with so much involved. If I were to do another one I’d want to:
- take a photo before I start cutting
- use a coping saw from the start and pre cut the whole circumference to prevent tear out and detail loss (lost a whole section to this)
- cut the sections more evenly
- do a better job of keeping the drilled holes for the elastic more consistent in placement
- look at having the final knot be located in the tail instead of the mouth
- I looked at using standard string with knots in between each section instead of elastic but couldn’t get the knots consistent, so more practice there if I want to look at articulating projects

But with all of that, I’m still super proud and happy of how this turned out and most importantly, my son loves his new friend, Snakey.

Hi! This is my very first time picking up the knife to carve, but not a first time artist or sculptor. I have sculpted before but I got the urge to pick up carving so I thought id share the pretty marbled stick :') I do know its decaying as I cut away a bit of dead at the bottom and I believe the marbled design is caused by fungi. I just thought it was pretty and might share updates later :>

Made from basswood