Use the right wood: Regardless of the style of carving, basswood is a great material for beginner carvers. It’s smooth and fine-grained with an ideal carving density.

Most wood carvers use soft, porous woods like basswood, aspen or walnut. They also have knives made specifically for woodcutting, with different shapes and sizes to make sculpting easier.

Learn how to identify the American basswood tree by its distinctive leaves, bark ... Because basswood has soft wood, it can be used for hand carving, and the inner bark is a source for rope ...

Club member Polly White enjoys carving in cottonwood bark and basswood for her projects. ... Items to be auctioned include unique hand carvings, wood carvings tools and accessories. The auction will ...

Basswood (Tilia americana), also called linden, is a beautiful, fast growing tree reaching heights of 130 feet. It has a straight trunk, with most of the bole limb-free, thereby producing large ...

Ramsdell's finished carvings give no hint they were once the blond fibers of a basswood tree. The wing feathers on his red-tailed hawk demand a double-take. Those are wood?

Wood carving festival honors late local Ho-Chunk artist Harry Whitehorse ... Each selected a log of oak, basswood, pine or spruce as their canvas.