Give Jim Calkins a piece of wood and a carving knife and he's a happy man. He's been carving Santa Claus figurines for 27 years. He also creates snowmen and angels -- all starting from a simple block ...

It starts as 48x4x8 block of wood, but when Norman Altman sits behind his work bench in Syracuse, he sees Santa Claus in the raw material. Each year, Norman Altman hand-carves and paints wooden Santa ...

SALEM, Va. (WDBJ) - “A little piece at a time, see, you can shave it,” says Thomas Crickenberger as he works on another carving. All he needs to stay entertained for hours is a pocket knife and a ...

Goody’s Decoys, the name on a shop on Elkridge’s Main Street, disguises what really goes on inside. Seated at a workbench is a jolly man with a silvery white beard and a round belly. Late into the ...

BROCKTON — If you drive through Stoughton regularly, you may have seen a man sitting outside doing wood carvings of little Santas. He is 76-year-old Warren Dahlin and his creations aren't actually ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo.—About 50 years ago, Jim Siegl picked up a block of wood and an X-Acto knife, and he began to carve. Soon that block of wood was transformed into a tiny elephant—and Jim had begun ...

The challenge is daunting. Sculpt the hunk of wood in front of me into a Christmas tree using the reverberating 13lb load. Without losing a limb, finger, or anything else, in the process of course.

Small carved figurines are displayed beside the front door of 97-year-old Arnold Leshovsky’s apartment at retirement ...