"You Carved That from What?"

[Coffeeman]

Hey, thought this might be something of interest for your club too?

First of all I need to thank fellow board members TNARTIST (Forrest) and Claude, for planting the seed in my mind on turning their prior carving posts into a monthly carving project I've titled "You Carved That From What". So thanks Forrest for the Cedar Block & Peach Seed postings and to Claude for the Dowel (ear ring) postings. In addition, thanks to WCI staff because I remember a prior issue on the Jenga block carving project. Again, Thanks to all.

Anyway, for 2009, I'm proposing to our club (we meet once per month) that each month we put out a club challenge project to carve something out of an ordinary everyday item. Then the following month, bring your carved item back in for display, and we'll have yet another different item to take home to carve for next month, and so on.

We all have our own carving projects, but I feel this little club project will give us something to look forward to each month with much curiosity,crativity and anticipation of whats next. The club will supply the items each month and its the members option to take on the challenge or not. Also think, that at our annual carving show, we can put together a nice table display of our various monthly challenges too.

So folks, I need to start up a list of 12 carvable items, icluding the ones above: cedar closet blocks, wooden dowel, peach seeds, jenga blocks,......what can you suggest?

I'll start.....Larger Pencils

Thanks, Bill

[againstthegrain]

What about some of these?

Cypress knees, golf balls, wooden eggs, and olive pits?

WCI has an article here on carving different fruit pits:

Carving Unusual Materials - Wood Carving Illustrated

[Curly Early]

Thread spools and wooden thimbles, sounds like a great project and will get lots of others involved. Earl

[oregoncarver]

I just finished carving 25 miniture snowman scenes, the snowmen are from 1" - 1.25" tall and carved out of chop sticks. I carved a mini Christmas tree and package and put it all under a mini display case dome.

Arthur

[Raparee]

How about those inexpensive wooden spoons, spatulas, etc, that you can get at a dollar store? The old fashoned clothes pins might be interesting. Maybe a six-inch length of their Christmas tree.

[Buckskin]

Wooden finiales from your local big box home improvement store. Bowling pins, pepper mills, rolling pins....

[Don by the lake]

How about old fashioned clothes pins. The ones that are one peice.

[Thomp]

face carving from apples and sweet potatoes let them dry into wrinkled old men...

carving lighter pine or rich knot's...

tom h's 5 minuet owls..

[big dave]

I Saw One Carved The Other Day Out Of A Tongue Depressor And A Grain Of Rice.you Can Also Do Soap Stone

[Clifford_Parker]

Golf ball, Ivory soap, wooden spoon, thread spool, wooden egg, rolling pin, old fashioned clothespin, length of dowel. Many of these can be bought at you local "big box" hobby store or local K-mart/WalMart.