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 ...

May 28—RED LAKE FALLS, Minn. — Where many people might just see a log — sometimes a very big log — Joe Wavra sees potential. And he's perfected the art of bringing that potential to life, so to speak, ...

Faye Braaten found her inspiration the moment she picked up a chainsaw. The Loveland woman had always loved to paint and draw, but had never before carved until one day in the late 1990s when a friend ...

After spending 35 years working on residential and commercial buildings as a stone mason, Chris Pascoe has found a different way to create works of beauty. But in his new full-time career, he’s cast ...

BATAVIA — The chainsaw artist at the fair was able to carve a new path for herself. Elaine Foy is a chainsaw artist from Middlesex, N.Y., a small town east of Canandaigua lake. To view our latest ...

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 ...

One part of the Iowa State Fair that continues to please the crowds is chainsaw carving. KCCI's Max Diekneite shows why you need to see it live. One part of the Iowa State Fair that continues to ...

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 ...

Shari Staiduhar added a new highlight this week to her long career as a chainsaw carving artist. She did that by making her first appearance as a featured performer at the Lake County Fair. Staiduhar, ...