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WOODCARVING
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAMERIT BADGE SERIESWOOD CARVING“Enhancing our youths’ competitive edge through merit badges”
Requirements1. Do the following:a. Explain to your counselor the hazards you are most likely toencounter while wood carving, and what you should do toanticipate, help prevent, mitigate, or lessen these hazards.b. Show that you know first aid for injuries that could occurwhile wood carving, including minor cuts and scratchesand splinters.2. Do the following:a. Earn the Totin’ Chip recognition.b. Discuss with your merit badge counselor your understanding of the Safety Checklist for Carving.3. Do the following:a. Explain to your counselor, orally or in writing, the careand use of five types of tools that you may use in acarving project.b. Tell your counselor how to care for and use several typesof sharpening devices, then demonstrate that you knowhow to use these devices.4. Using a piece of scrap wood or a project onwhich you are working, show your meritbadge counselor that you know how to dothe following:a. Paring cutb. Basic cut and push cutc. “V” cutd. Stop cut or score line5. Tell why different woods are used for different proj ects.Explain why you chose the type of wood you did for yourprojects in requirements 6 and 7.6. Plan your own or select a project from this merit badgepamphlet and complete a simple carving in the round.7. Complete a simple low-relief OR a chip carving project.35967ISBN 978-0-8395-3309-2 2016 Boy Scouts of America2016 Printing
.ResourcesResourcesScouting LiteratureDeck of First Aid; Emergency First Aidpocket guide; Be Prepared First AidBook; Woodwork merit badge pamphletVisit the Boy Scouts of America’sofficial retail website (with yourparent’s permission) at http://www.scoutstuff.org for a completelisting of all merit badge pamphlets and other helpful Scoutingmaterials and supplies.BooksBarton, Wayne. The Complete Guide toChip Carving. Sterling, 2007.Beiderman, Charles, and WilliamJohnston. The Beginner’sHandbook of Woodcarving.Dover Publications, 1988.Butz, Richard. How to Carve Wood.Taunton Press, 1984.Ellenwood, Everett. The Complete Bookof Woodcarving: Everything You Needto Know to Master the Craft. FoxChapel Publishing, 2008.Expressions and Characteristics Withthe Legendary Harold Enlow. FoxChapel Publishing, 2011.Green, Larry. First Projects for WoodCarvers: A Pictorial Introduction toWood Carving. Schiffler, 1996.Hillyer, John. Woodcarving: 20 GreatProjects for Beginners and WeekendCarvers. Lark Books, 2002.Johnson, Skylar. How to Carve aWoodspirit in a Hiking Stick. AlpineViews Publishing, 2004.Lubkemann, Chris. The Little Book ofWhittling. Fox Chapel Publishing,2013.Pye, Chris. Chris Pye’s WoodcarvingCourse & Reference Manual: ABeginner’s Guide to TraditionalTechniques. Fox Chapel Publishing,2010.———. Woodcarving: Tools, Materials &Equipment, vol. 1. Guild of MasterCraftsman, 2002.Tangerman, Elmer. Carving Animals inWood. Dover, 1995.———. Whittling and Woodcarving.Dover Publications, 1962.Enlow, Harold L. Carving FacesWorkbook: Learn to Carve FacialWOOD CARVING 63
Resources.Tools and SuppliesIf you have trouble finding supplies, trysome of the places below.Bob Reitmeyer, whittler—wood craftsupplies for ScoutsWebsite: http://www.whittlerbob.comMoore RoughoutsToll-free telephone: 800-825-2657Website: http://www.roughouts.comMountain Woodcarvers Inc.Toll-free telephone: 800-292-6788Website: http://www.mountainwoodcarvers.comPaul’s SuppliesTelephone: 303-948-2767Website: http://www.paulssupplies.comWoodcraftToll-free telephone: 800-225-1153Website: http://www.woodcraft.comAcknowledgmentsThe Boy Scouts of America is indebtedto the late Jeff Springer, a devotedScouter and master wood-carver whoprovided the Safety Checklist forCarving and the plans reproduced inthis book.The Boy Scouts of Americaalso thanks lifelong Scouter PaulMcClain of Boulder, Colorado, for hisassistance, in particular with the sectionon chip carving. Thanks also to devotedScouter and master wood-carver DavidOakley, Lincoln Park, Michigan, for hisassistance and support.The BSA gratefully acknowledgesthe assistance of the Circle Ten Council,Dallas, Texas, the Jayhawk AreaCouncil, Topeka, Kansas, and longtime64 WOOD CARVINGScouter George Bain, who has beencarving and whittling for more than30 years.The Boy Scouts of America isgrateful to the men and women servingon the Merit Badge Maintenance TaskForce for the improvements made inupdating this pamphlet.Photo and Illustration CreditsDynamic Graphics Group—page 59 (background)Billy Humphries, Forest ResourcesConsultants Inc., Bugwood.org,courtesy—page 4 (inset)Shutterstock.com, courtesy—cover(woodcarving tools at right, Taigi);pages 15 ( battler), 16 ( hecke61),17 ( ConstantinosZ), 18 ( AVNPhoto Lab), 20 (tree, LilKar), 21(tulip tree branch, anmo), 22 (blackcherry tree branch, Madlen), 24 (all, goldnetz), 25 (wood annual rings, KaKrue), 26 and 29 (back saw, RedDaxLuma), 51 (stick withleather strap and bent wood handle, Claude Huot; squirrel, enchangedfairy), 53 (palette, Africa Studio),54 (lermsak), and 62 ( noomcm)All other photos and illustrations notmentioned above are the property ofor are protected by the Boy Scoutsof America.Gene Daniels—pages 4 (background),58, and 60John McDearmon—all illustrationson pages 19, 27, 35, 39, 45–46,and 50–53Brian Payne—cover (frame, carvingtools on left); pages 14 (both),29 (chip carving knives), and55–57 (all)
on chip carving. Thanks also to devoted Scouter and master wood-carver David Oakley, Lincoln Park, Michigan, for his assistance and support. The BSA grateful
