10 simple whittling projects and ideas to get started on, with just a knife and a stick.

A selection of ten simple back-to-basics whittling or wood carving projects that most people will be able to manage with just a knife and a stick. They make a great pool of ideas of Scouts. The only exception to the stick requirement is the crocodile, which uses a traditional wooden clothes peg (the 'peg game' is popular on Scout camp, so this so there should be plenty around). Most of the projects would benefit from from sandpaper and some oil, but I haven't included this as again, a stick and a knife should be all you need...
Please be safe while whittling. I recommend wearing a cut-resistant glove on your off-hand (the one without the knife) and some kind of thumb protection if you're using pull cuts.
#whittling #Scouts #carving #woodcraft

0:00 Intro
0:31 Magic wand
1:10 Trees & flowers
1:46 Mushrooms
2:26 Crochet hook
3:30 Acorn
4:19 Arrowhead pendant
5:39 Clothes peg crocodile
7:34 Spiral-in-a-stick
8:29 Wooden knife
9:41 Wizard

Thanks for watching. Let me know in the comments if there's any other Scouty / Crafty stuff you what to see.

[bannanaboy]

This video is so good. I saw another "intro to wood carving", which listed hundreds of dollars in gear, special ordered wood, and specific techniques all "required" to start. It totally turned me off from ever trying! But thanks to you, I've tried carving two wizards and want to do so much more!

[potatoman]

love the fact all of these (other than clothes pins) are from just branches and pieces of wood instead of showing a "here's a block with a template i glued onto it"

[meganaccordino]

I found a nice looking stick in my backyard and YouTube brought me here! Lol! I'm excited to try some of these! Thanks for the video!

[thehairywoodcarver]

Some great simple projects here, loved the mushrooms 🍄👍👏

[BrendaLopez-vkup]

Simple, affordable and brings me peace . Ty

[peeweesermon]

Love this! Thanks for the whittling tips

[smellslikenoodles]

I can't afford Basswood right now so this was perfect to get me started! Really creative

[tianreskers]

Thank you
Now i have my own shadow wizard gang on my table) 4of them around frog

[G_scootzz]

very good video, I have been trying to make a wizard and it is very easy to follow the video!!!

[juliennebearss]

This is great... just getting some students started on whittling. "Find a Stick!" lol your supplies are literally everywhere. What is the toe tapping melody that starts playing partway into the carving of the crocodile/alligator clothes peg? I love it!

[fouroakscrafts]

These are some nice whittles! I like your channel and just subscribed. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[kennanblake]

Just started my acorn! I've gotten decent at inlay carving, but really struggle with the more 3 Dimentional aspect of whittling. The acorn is really helping my hand eye coordination and making sure everything is as symmetrical as I can make it. I tried carving a fox a couple months ago and all the features were poorly placed 😂 tail off to the right, head off center, but that's part of the learning process :) thanks for some more basic ideas to get me started! I thought it was a great video.

[Cowmookaze]

Instead of the spiral just having a base, you could even turn the base into a snake's head!

[felipfelop]

Excellent and thank you, just hoping that these old bones can carve this stuff, i suspect your young enough to be able to crack on, i gotta give a few of these a go

[siyonashukla]

I have done the magic wand
Cause am kid and I love Harry Potter

[jamehunsley]

Im gonna give my DM a wand with some personal flare

[AikoAmami]

how do u get the sticks so clean cut?? I cant cut it for shit lol

[themomandpopyoutubeshop]

I can barley whittle through the stick it is insanely hard for me to even make a roll

[craig]

What knife are you using for these items?

[taylordonahue]

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