Beginner Projects
The projects below are all VERY beginner friendly projects. You can try your hand at these at home, or peruse the youtube channels of these carvers and find some other tutorial that may interest you. The amount of carving tutorials available online is simply amazing.
Whittle a Bonsai Tree
This is a super simple, easy, beginner tutorial that anyone can accomplish as their first woodcarving with minor difficulty. Plus the result is you get a fun knick knack for your bookshelf, desk, workbench, or as a gift for a loved one.
Johnny is a member of the LeadBelt Woodcarving Club, and this video is one of the projects he has available at the meetings every monday for new carvers to cut their teeth on. Follow along with the video if you would like and Johnny can take you through how to carve one, step by step, cut by cut.
Carve a Simple Santa!
Doug Linker is the undisputed king of woodcarving tutorials for beginners on YouTube. Too many folks to count have gotten their start in woodcarving because they have spent time doing tutorials that Doug has posted online. He has a plethora of tutorials on his youtube page, and this is just one of them!
Whittle a Gnome
DYWoodcarving is a great source of beginner woodcarving tutorials. His "Traveling Gnome" is an iconic figure in the woodcarving community, and is rather simple for a beginner to tackle. You can follow along in this video, step by step as David teaches how to carve the figure.
Whittle a Fox!
Whittle a little fox out of a 1x1 piece of basswood with Brian from "Carving is Fun"
Brian's a fun carver, and has several really great beginner projects you should definitely check out.
Whittle Pumpkins
These hand carved pumpkins are carved from a 2x2 block of basswood and are one of several really great beginning projects you can try!
Johnny is a member of the LeadBelt Woodcarving Club, and this video is one of the projects he has available at the meetings every monday for new carvers to cut their teeth on. Follow along with the video if you would like and Johnny can take you through how to carve one, step by step, cut by cut.