Mallets in wood carving kits are also banned from carry-on and must be packed in checked baggage. Read Next: Traveling with ...

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 ...

While carvers in other areas long ago turned to mechanical cutters and polishers, the craftsmen here use only hammers, mallets and a variety of chisels and gouges. Many are self-taught ...

While carvers in other areas long ago turned to mechanical cutters and polishers, the craftsmen here use only hammers, mallets and a variety of chisels and gouges. Many are self-taught ...

Wood carving is an activity that provides just the ... If you start hammering at it with a mallet, you might break it. What you need to know: The spoon knife is another knife with a curved edge ...

One feverishly takes notes; all are silent. All have one goal: to become better at what they love — carving. As if by magic, professional woodcarver Josh Guge guides a shaping tool over a smooth ...

While carvers in other areas long ago turned to mechanical cutters and polishers, the craftspeople here use only hammers, mallets and a variety of chisels and gouges. Many are self-taught, but some, ...

There also will be demonstrations in traditional carving, mallet carving, bark carving, woodturning, wood burning, scroll sawing and painting throughout the show. Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Rice ...