Do you prefer to sit or stand?

[Northwest29]

I guess I'm just a lazy sort of guy and sit 99% of the time while carving. It occurred to me that some folks might be just the opposite. What's your preference?

Ron

[Dicky]

I prefer to stand and I don't know why.I think it may be because how we were taught "manual arts" in primary and secondary schools using work benches. Time is taking its inevitable toll however and I am beginning to seek ways to carve while seated.

[carver6]

Usually depends on what I'm carving. In the round I'll sit. Relief carving I like to stand.
Garon

[Donsexton]

If I am loving life and hand carving I will have a premium hand rolled and a cold beer sitting. If I am destroying wood with chainsaws and grinders standing.

[Scott Hagerty]

When carving small carving I can hold in my hands I carve sitting, when working on something in a vice or carving arm I stand and hammer away!

[arfer1943]

If I am using a mallet or both hands on the gouge, I stand. I was taught to use my whole body to drive the gouge, as it were.

Again for small detail, I sit.

Haven't YET been allowed to sit up in bed............

[johncarves]

YES! I do prefer too.

[mobjack68]

Depends on whether I am doing #1 or #2....

[kdispoto]

I sit at work all day - so when I carve at home - I stand at a bench.

[BrandantR]

I use a knife and palm tools, so there's no need for me to stand. Sometimes, I even lay down .