Carving a duck out of wood may not be everyone's idea of a good time, but wood carvers are hopeful that their beloved hobby seems to be attracting more women and young people. "I imagine that a lot of ...

A few times a year, a workshop at the Guilford Handcraft Center turns into a place where Geppetto, the woodcarver, would be happy. Here, a half-dozen students arrive eager to turn simple blocks of ...

Hunched over a piece of wood, Hank Sprouse whittles away in his basement workshop in Stratford, Connecticut. What looks like a simple carving now, will eventually become a realistic-looking cedar ...

The feathers of a scissortail flycatcher emerge from a block of wood when Charles Wolfe gets busy carving birds at his garage-turned-studio in Fayetteville. There's an American Kestrel perched on a ...

They look real, take dozens of hours to craft and will cost you if one is destined for your mantle. More than 400 people took in the Columbia Flyway Wildlife Show over the weekend in Vancouver. It was ...

Interested in capturing a bit of nature for your home, office or to give as a gift? The Orangeburg Wood Carvers Club will offer a class in bird carving next month at the Orangeburg County Fine Arts ...

Cedar fan birds are not considered fine art, but still they require skill and artful hands. The birds carved from wood have deep roots in Europe of the past when men, traveling far from home, sat ...

Whether he’s meticulously carving the fine feathers of a pheasant in flight or the sweeping robes of a life-size statue of an Italian saint, 39-year-old Mark Yundt of Bethlehem considers woodcarving ...

Bluegills, crappies and different subspecies of trout glide around pieces of driftwood, mouths gaping open, their eyes unwavering and scales glistening. No, they aren’t real, nor are they mounted ...

THURMONT, Md. (AP) -- Joe Stebbing started out carving wood the old-fashioned way. With chisels and a mallet. Trouble was, it took about three months to make a single carving. Stebbing, a plumber by ...