It’s not every day I get to encourage our readers to play with knives, but whittling wood might just be humankind’s second oldest playtime hobby — right after throwing large rocks into bodies of water ...

along highway 101 in the town of Garberville is a G whiz pit stop. Why if nothing more than to marvel at what one man did with a single piece of wood or logged exact. This is the famous one log house ...

Almost any wood will work fine for whittling. If you’re anxious to get started and are curious about whittling techniques, just find a stick or piece of wood and start slicing away. If you want to ...

1. Make sure your knife is sharp. 2. Your knife must be really sharp! 3. Don t try carving with a knife that isn t sharp ... You get the point. For more than 30 years, the good-humored Lubkemann, who ...