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Woodcarving Illustrated Christmas Ornament Exchange

Oct 022011

Well I finally got into the WCI Christmas Ornament Exchange this year. I was so frustrated last year because I found out about it too late to participate. Then I got the thinking about whether or not I felt that I would be able to carve enough ornaments for an exchange in the first place.

This year I got my name in quickly and was confident that I could do enough Santa Ornaments. We ended the entry process with 19 people including one ornament for the magazine.

Here are the 19 Santa Ornaments that I carved for the exchange. They are all lined up ready to be packaged and shipped out to their new owners.

: Hand Carved Santa Ornaments

: More Hand Carved Santa Ornaments

Hand Carved Wooden Santa Ornament Tutorial

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Aug 242011

It’s almost Christmas time again and it’s time to start thinking about decorating the tree soon and what gifts you need to get to your loved ones. An awesome wood carving project that even the beginner can have fun completing, is a hand carved Santa Ornament. These really fun wood carved ornaments can be completed with just a small cylinder piece of wood (2 ½” long and 1” diameter), a carving knife and a small v-tool. They make great ornaments to hang on your own tree or to give as gifts for your loved ones trees. Trust me, you will be asked to carve more when you start handing these things out.

Safety is very important, so to start off this simple project, make sure your wood carving knife is sharp and you have your carving glove ready. Your first step is to mark a ring around the wood about 1/3 from the top of the block. Now draw in a line about a 1/4” above the previous line. Now with your v-tool, create a small separation around the wood that removes the lines that you just drew. When this is completed, it should look like this (click on images for larger view):

Hand Carved Christmas Ornaments

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Jul 072011

Ozark Walking Sticks is in the process of making some really cute Hand Carved Santa Ornaments for the Christmas Season. The Santa Ornaments are all very similar to each other, but are all slightly different also, because they are Hand Carved, not replicated by a machine. Here is an example of what our Hand Carved Santa Ornaments look like:

Hand Carved Santa Ornaments

We also have some nice snowman ornaments this year. Below are two pictures to show what the snowman looks like. These ornaments will be shipped with the nose ready to be inserted when you receive them, to keep them from breaking during shipping.

Hand Carved Snowman

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Lil’ Chief Big “POW” “WOW” Wood Carving Scene

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Jul 012011

After receiving the wonderful book, “Carving Small Characters” by Jack Price, I set out to carve a 2 inch character. The character turned out to look like a small Indian and I decided to further the wood carving, by attempting to put together a complete wood carving scene. I have had wood carving scene ideas floating around in my mind for a couple months and this was the perfect opportunity to incorporate those ideas.

With the Indian theme in mind, I created a scene that included a tipi, a campfire, and a TNT keg. I called the scene Lil’ Chief, Big “POW” “WOW”.

Lil' Chief Big "POW" "WOW"

Small Caricature Carving

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Jun 022011

Well, my plan was to do some carving today and not worry about making any posts on the OWS Blog. After getting some lunch with my family, I sat down with a 1″ X 1″ X 3″ piece of basswood and made a blind attempt at a small caricature carving. Keep in mind that I am just getting started with caricatures, so they are not anywhere near being great.

I started by dividing that wood into roughly three equal sections and began separating the area of the head from the body.

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