He has had much whittling practice. When he was a young boy he used to carve his grandmothers ivory soap bars into dogs and various things. She loved them.
He is very talented and mostly self taught. He used to whittle cartoon charactures and I convinced to try carving birds since we both loved them so much. His first cardinal he carved he gave to my mom for her birthday and she loved it. He now hates that bird because he can pick out all the mistakes he’s made.
This was the first big item we made together and we gave it to my niece as a birthday gift.
nthego:Unfortunately I couldn’t watch these but would have liked to.
This is very pretty. You must have excellent dexterity.I recently started a new hobby, which, so far has been tremendous fun! It's called Diamond Dotz, or Diamond Painting. Here's my second project:
Now I'm working on something a bit larger for a friends great grand baby.
Oh yes. I have one of those which I need to use for certain crafts. This isl my floor model. It’s hreat for trimming split ends as well. :laugh:Thank you. I lighted magnifying glass helps!
I will tell him you said so.
I ran into the same problem
