r/Woodcarving

Iranian Walnut wood, what are your thoughts on this?

Antler theme hair sticks

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 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.

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 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!

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

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!