Every winter for the past 4 years I made my grandson a snowman in the backyard. This winter I am not able to make him one since my wife and I have move out and just rent an apartment nearby my daughter's house. Instead, I made my grandson a wooden snowman which I hope he will like just the same.
This snowman is made from a tree branch. I used an x-acto knife to carve this figure.
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A co-worker friend gave me a Sheffield brand box cutter. It works great, better than my EDC knife for cutting boxes, string and whatever need to be cut at work.
It has a pocket clip and quite inconspicuous.
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Wooden chains are one of the fun and simple trick project of old timer whittling and are also called whimsies. I thought it was an easy project, much easier than the ball in a cage but it is not, at least for me. It took me 6 hours to finish this simple 3 link wood chain. There should have been 4 links but I broke one link when I forced to free it due to lack of patience.
3 link wooden chain and Schrade 108OT.
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There is a guy in YouTube named Gene Messer who has tons of video tutorial on woodcarving. He got a video on how to carve a face in wood that is quite easy to follow. I learned a lot about wood carving from his instructional videos.
I used white pine wood 1" x 1" square dowel for this one. Not so bad I think.
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I got a book on old time whittling and will be doing the projects in it. I don't have the wood materials yet although I already ordered online for a box of different sizes basswood. For the meantime I just buy white pine wood from the hardware store.
I also reground an old Barlow knife and a Lipic pen knife for use as whittling knives. In the photo you can also see a piece of white pine wood square dowel 1" x 1" x 24" and the book Complete Starter Guide to Whittling.
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