North Idaho Carver

This bottle was turned by a friend for a class in Glacier he is doing. He wanted something carved on it for a go by. The basswood was excell...

I received this pattern from a friend, Girard Burgess.  The first seahorse I carved, I broke a part on the front. It showed the glue mark s...

Several members of our club has been carving this feather. I carved one in basswood and another one in cottonwood bark. They are about 11 1/...

After lunch this frog started surfing the net. I like looking at cartoons and it is fun to carve the caricatures. This cartoon struck my in...

Girard gave me a cutout of this dragon, and said, because I like to carve small things. This relief is 4 1/2 inch wide and 3 1/4 inch tall....

This carving is from a Edward Curtis portrait of a young indian woman in 1910. She is a Chinookan from Washington state. The tribes were alo...

This carving is from the site woodbeecarver.com. Don Mertz says, "Would be carvers would be carvers, if they would carve wood." It...

A friend gave me this flower he started carving and asked me to finish it. He designed it with four hearts and added some leaves. Girard li...

I made some minor changes on the turtle on my March 25 post. This will be my class project for the Spokane rendezvous this year. The turtle ...

This was a comic drawing with the title "It's been one of those days". It's carved from 1/2 inch thick basswood and painte...

  My eagle plaque carving is only 5 inches long and 3/8 inch thick. I have it hanging in the motor home. That is abalone glu...

Back in January a scoutmaster for the Boy Scouts asked if our club would carve four different subjects for their jamboree in July. Girard an...

This hen reminds me of back on the farm the hen wouldn't lay her eggs in the nest, you needed to hunt all over for that egg.  This hen i...

I had a request to show all the relief carvings that we did as a club project. This is the only picture I have and shows how we displayed th...

This relief carving was mostly done last year but was put aside for other projects. It took me longer than I thought it would. I cleaned a f...

At our North Idaho Woodcarvers club get together we had a visit from a scoutmaster. The Boy Scouts are having a national jamboree in July an...

I recieved my relief carving from a project our club did last year. Members picked a photo of a scene around the Coeur d'Alene area to ...