Wood Chip Carving A Family Habit
My Grandfather used to wood-chip carve on his front porch in the evenings. As a small boy I remember watching him squint as the sun set over the mountains till finally it was too dark for him to see any longer and he would grumble and wander inside.
I always thought that when I was just a little bit older I would sit on his lap and he would teach me how to make those same careful cuts. Unfortunately he passed away before I had the chance.
All of this had passed from my memory until recently at a doctors visit my Doctor told me that if I didn’t find a way to relax at night my heart would give out. Suddenly the image of my Grandfather sitting on his porch every night flashed through my mind. I decided I need to learn how to whittle.
After a brief local search I finally turned to the internet for instructions on how to begin. I watched youtube and bought booklets and nothing really had the information I needed. Finally I found a professional wood carver that said he could teach me, and even better I wouldn’t have to fly to his remote cabin in Nova Scotia to do it!
He wrote the book I was looking for. It started out so simple all you need is a box cuter. Well when I first got the book I poured over it’s pages and within 15 minutes I was Knife Whittling
There were wood shaving all over the living room floor and my wife was furious but deep down inside me I felt that connection to my Grandfather. I was a little boy again sitting on his lap.
I started to carve up everything I could. Old kitchen chairs lost their legs, broken picture frames were devoured, I even whittled a broken wooden spoon into a candle. Albeit not very creative I was reliving my childhood dream of whittling.
The Legacy left by my Grandfather was alive again and I owe it all the that book about Carving Wood
Now the you know the history, let me share with you the instructions I received, instructions the every whittler should know:
Just Start
That’s it! He told me
“Your going to get cut until you figure out how not to get cut. Your going to screw upuntil you figure out how to fix it. Your going to shatter every small piece you start till you figure out how to not do that. The key is KEEP GOING.”
And really that’s all you need to do, get a chunk of wood (the softer the better) and a box cutter… and of course bring your Band-Aids!
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