Tutorials

In this blog post we'll show you how to trim a wooden gift after you've finished the rough shape.   Continuing from the previous post, we have completed most of the work on the mushroom figurine. As you can see from the drawing, the four points of the mushroom umbrella have the highest, second,...

In this blog post we are going to teach you a lot of techniques for sharpening wooden gifts. We'll continue with the example of the cute mushroom wooden figurine from the previous post.   In the previous post we have pretty much sharpened the mushroom tip, this time we will make another small adjustment...

In this post we continue to take you through the process of learning to carve fun and great looking wooden gifts. Using the mushroom wood figurine that has appeared in previous posts as an example, we'll take you through a variety of carving techniques as we go along.  The first step is to smooth...

Throughout the entire process of making wooden gifts, we repeat two actions that we call the basic carving methods of wood carving, namely, one is broaching, and the other is push carving. Carving wooden gifts in the process of the three knife techniques Pulling Pulling as the name suggests is the action of the...

How to use a combination of saws and carving knives to make wooden gifts? This blog post will take you through the detailed cutting process, and we'll use the mushroom wood figurine from the previous post as an example. Cutting large Starting with the vise clamped on a smooth tabletop, we're going to start...

In this blog post we will teach you how to draw auxiliary lines when making wooden gifts. Drawing the necessary auxiliary lines on a block of wood is a crucial first step that will provide you with an accurate guide on space, rather than carving all from your imagination. Let's continue with the mushroom...

In this blog post we will teach you what size of wood block to choose for carving wooden gifts, and we will use a lovely wooden figurine of a mushroom as an example to teach you in layman's terms what conditions and principles to base your handling of the wood block on. The mushroom...