For his 13th birthday, Michael Blaine’s mother enrolled the avid young whittler in a wood-carving course. “I was the youngest person there, and the second youngest was 35,” Blaine says. But his ...

Michael Blaine sliced, shaved, jabbed and poked at an 8-foot-high white pine log with his assorted chainsaws until the form of a cowgirl emerged. Periodically consulting photographs of the woman he’s ...

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 ...

If you’re looking for a setting where it’s socially appropriate — and safe — to play with knives, be sure to check out the 47th annual Red River Valley International Wood Arts Festival, which runs ...