Gouges and chisels are the usual tools for relief carving, often accompanied by a mallet to drive the tools into the wood. You’ll also need clamps or a bench-top vise because the flat wooden ...

THURMONT, Md. (AP) -- Joe Stebbing started out carving wood the old-fashioned way. With chisels and a mallet. Trouble was, it took about three months to make a single carving. Stebbing, a plumber ...

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Mallets and chisels of every type and size abound. Garrity is an artist, able to birth beauty from the wood as a painter brings life to a blank canvas. “I could always draw," said Garrity.

Teaching wood carving is no easy feat and apprentices also must possess certain skills, according to Ac-ac. “I had an apprentice who’s been with me for years, but his work was still the same.

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