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 ...

HICKORY, Miss. -- Tucked away in the woods just off Interstate 20 lies a 20-year-old cabin that has become the studio of two cabinet-makers turned artists who turn discarded pieces of wood into ...

MOBILE, Alabama -- Though some people might call what Ron Johnson does in his spare time “whittling,” he calls it carving. The difference between the two, he explained, is that in whittling, the ...

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 ...

MILL HALL, Pa. — Chainsaws will echo across the Clinton County Fairgrounds this weekend as more than 50 wood carvers take part in the 10th annual Hooskow Carving Festival. "We have carvers from all ...

YORK COUNTY, Pa. — One York County man is skilled with a chainsaw. So skilled, in fact, that he can create wooden sculptures with his cutting tool nearly at the drop of a hat. Robert Wood showed off ...

During a vacation trip to Wisconsin several years ago, a wooden hand-carved gnome beckoned to Nancy Allan. She was going to buy it to bring home to North Mankato, but her husband, David Allan said, “I ...