CALEDONIA — Tyler Keland and his little sister, Kayla, stood in wonder and they watched as logs and sections of tree trunks became an intricately carved bear, pelican and a dog carrying waterfowl in ...

JANESVILLE, Wis.—Dave Wywial’s hobby is a risky business. “You’re carving with the most dangerous tool rated by OSHA,” he said. But in Wywial’s hands, a snarling chain saw is a tool for making art, a ...

Wood shavings fly as Mark Hermington smooths down the body of his salmon carving with a sander during the quick-carve chain saw competition Thursday as part of the Loggerodeo festivities in ...

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 ...

A chain saw seems like such an aggressive tool, but it isn’t always for taking down large pieces of lumber. Shawn and Michelle Corbin know this very well, making a living off creating delicate ...

Tom Thompson rolled a rectangular chunk of ice onto the parking lot of the Pompano Club and set the 40-inch high, 10-inch thick and 20-inch wide mass on a piece of plywood. Next, he turned to the bed ...

There’s a bit of Michelangelo in all of the woodcarvers working in Frederick this week: that ability to see something more refined inside a solid mass and cut it out for the rest of the world to gaze ...

Competitive chainsaw sculptor Steven Higgins airbrushes finishing color onto a seven-foot carving of a great blue heron in Liberty, Missouri. With most of his carving competitions canceled due to ...

With a chain saw in his hands, Phil Bryan is an artist. From old palm tree trunks, the Indialantic resident carves pelicans, toucans, parrots, eagles, pineapples and dophins with the 2-foot-long saw.