Best advice for beginners

[Aliciana]

Very Interesting,
not that it matters much what I say,but I have to agree with Whitecree "" Just do it" get a piece of wood and whatever (animals, spirits, santas, driftwood ) you like ,but just do it.
Aliciana

[Nancy Goff]

Hi Loren -- Great to meet you
I was unable to get into you web site and I want to see that badly - - I'll try again later.
I'll right down east Hwy.50 from you . Husband has to go up to Tan Tara for business meetings ever so often.

[Dickie]

What is your best advice for beginning carvers? ...
After you buy the book on carving, buy the best carving glove you can afford, buy a good carving knife, make a strop to keep it sharp and carve the easiest project that you can find.

[Tom H]

Ivan and Dick are right on the money...one of the best teachers I had (not carving) had a knack for taking the most difficult and exacting processes and tricking us to do it. The manner in which he incoorporated the most difficult steps and techniques into a teaching-learning process that produced a finished product was great. We practiced the hard parts withouy even knowing it and learned. And ended up with a good product. And if I recall correctly doesn't the 5 minute owl, as a first learning project incoorporate many of the basic cuts..... Good thread Tom H