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 ...

Tina Bollman approaches her craft like any other artist. She looks at her medium and imagines what it could be, and at her disposal are a wide variety of tools, each with a specific purpose. However, ...

Reedsport was buzzing over Father’s Day Weekend, as an impressive gathering of chainsaw carving artists transformed giant wooden logs into one-of-a-kind, creative masterpieces. Oregon Divisional ...

Sedro-Woolley's Loggerodeo features the popular chainsaw carving competition as one of the attractions at the city's annual Independence Day celebration. The chainsaw carving has a daily quick carve ...

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 ...

Russell Ehart works on a chainsaw carving of Elvis Presley in Tonganoxie. Mclouth? When McLouth artist Russell Ehart looks at a tree stump, he doesn’t see firewood. He sees a bird, a bear – or even ...

When life got rough, Mark Tyoe began transforming blocks of wood into black bears. Shortly after getting laid off from GE, the Salisbury chain saw carver decided to turn large chunks of white pine ...

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 ...

One common joinery method used in wood working is the mortise and tenon. A mortise is basically a hole in a piece of wood and the tenon is another piece of wood cut to tightly fit in that hole. The ...

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 ...