Tips
        This page provides carving tips and techniques.

Bob Williams, SWCA newsletter editor, suggests the following:

1. Carve with a buddy.
   
   If you cannot manage a face-off, pick up the phone.   Talk about the project they are carving.  Attend your local club's meeting.   Organize a mid-week carve-around.
   
   
2. Try carving something new or different
   
   We often get bored with carving the same types of project time-after-time.  Change from carving-in-the-round to relief carving.  Change from carving birds to caricatures.
   
   
3. Start carving on one of those blanks in the box under your workbench.
   
   We all get started carving on a project and lay it down.   Dig into that block box.  Try to remember why you started on this project.
   
   
4. Visit a woodcarving show!
   
   Viewing the projects of other carvers can get those juices flowing again.  Checkout a vendor's booth.  Would a new book provide inspiration?
   

Reprinted from:
The Southeastern Carver, March 1999