Carving a Woodspirit Into a Hiking Stick

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Geez, let me know if you know what this wood is. All I know is that it is horrible to carve!
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[@whittler0507]

Great woodspirit Alec ..love your teachings ..Thank you for sharing

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Thanks Gene!!

[@tqcoghill]

Great video Alec and even greater talent ! Love your carving tutorials as they are constantly helping me hone my carving skills. I have carved a few dozen sticks in green maple and have always gotten really nice results... give it a try sometime. I'll keep watching and learning. Thanks !

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Thanks so much! love maple!

[@ewagner8476]

Love this video Alex, great teaching, learn something every time I watch your videos.

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Thanks so much!

[@emilypaulsen479]

Love this!! Really relaxing to watch. You’re very talented! Plus funny and cute ^-^

[@fouroakscrafts7240]

Great wood spirit Alec. I like how you have him nestled in there. My Home Depot has a great selection of burrs for the Ryobi rotary tool.

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Thank you! Yes thanks for the reminder!

[@omareduardotroncoso107]

very nice work, I'm very bad at drawing but I'm going to try watching your video, thank you very much

[@hughtempleton8640]

Fantastic carving of a wood spirit Alec 👏 . You can see that wood is a nightmare to carve . 😀

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Thanks Hugh! It was indeed

[@suecove2458]

Your knife is beautiful Alex

[@connieeveritt5704]

Love it, thank you for sharing. 😊

[@131dyana]

I have a walking stick nice idea. Thanks.

[@rickgroshong250]

Really cool work! I found a nice (?) stick in our pond, and I’m going to give it a try.

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Do it! Thanks!

[@clivegreen5492]

Love that you have picked up one of Gene's famous catchphrases "In other words"..lol..great video again.

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Haha, thank you!

[@glennnielsen2425]

Ha ha god forsaken wood. Struggled with that about as much as that juniper lady carving ! Lumbering along here , Kudos for the attempt with the knife ! I too carve walking sticks, everyone always says what kind of wood is that? I don’t know but it is so hard like steel! I have been using a Dremel, and it still a bear to cut . Always nice to see you carve

[@tabathaosborne6447]

Hey Alec, this video came just in time as I have some walking sticks I am gonna put wood spirits on so thanks for the video, probably gonna use my Dremel also for the finer detail.

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Awesome Tabatha! Enjoy !

[@mikE_6-28]

Hey Alec. Great carve! I’m gonna vote for Hickory. It looks like the one I just finished (not as good as yours) but a little smaller in diameter. I used the power tools, of course, for everything except the eyes. The Dremel struggled too. Thanks

[@duser2326]

I feel your pain. I found an interesting piece of wood on a hike. A vine had grown around the tree and left a nice spiral pattern in the stick. I carried it home and tried to carve a wood spirit in the stick. I am not as patient or talented as you so after an hour of struggle I gave up. I never thought of trying to complete the project with the Dremel. I have to see if I saved that project or used it as a fire starter. Thanks for sharing your time and talent with us.

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

I didn't feel very patient! I'm right there with you!

[@clintoncollier]

Thanks!

[@hemanttripathi3175]

Nice one

[@rocktruckrob]

Your comedy is right on par with the muppet fozzy bear🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣just messing with ya… great video….going to try👊✌️

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Hahaha, I unfortunately agree! Thanks!

[@banjoroo1515]

Brilliant commentary on how to carve an eye

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Thanks Andrew!

[@WIZ-IN-PA]

Another great video Alec! That wood almost looks like White Sycamore to me. Maybe not but looks similar.

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

It does look like that! But seemed harder to me, could be wrong!

[@westbsa7424]

[@jerrystark3587]

Is that Sycamore or hard Maple? If it is either, then that would explain the lighter appearance, the diffuse grain, and the hardness. Just a WAG, 🤔 You mentioned Ironwood as a possibility, but I have the impression that Ironwood is generally darker and more brown in color. It certainly is hard. For sure. Whatever that wood is, it is certainly hard enough to make your knives "chirp". This is another great video. Thanks!

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

I think you're right! Definitely not ironwood!

[@edusam666]

Been working on random sticks for a while. It does take a lot of patience with just a knife. But i guess when one is out on a hike it is not practical to carry half a workshop along.

[@lizakin1274]

Could that be Maple? I just finished a walking stick for a friend. It was Maple and very hard to carve on.

[@conk8636]

Don’t know why or how I knew? Know I know and Knew. Thanks

[@Strudle_Baker]

Could the wood be white oak? That's my guess.

[@MessickGreg]

Don't blame ya Alec I got a stick hard as cement

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Haha!

[@grassyknoll4702]

thanks Alec... I struggle with guilt, that I'm am cheating the carving world if I pull out my dremel... this gives me permission to do so, if Alec LaCasse can use a dremel, so can I!

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Glad to help! lol!

[@DeboWorks]

Looks like the wormy maple I have tried to carve

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

It could be some sort of horrible rock hard maple!

[@mijnosnah7599]

It looks and works like Sycamore very very dense dose it smell foul

[@ernestowen8271]

go get it

[@robertseeburger869]

With wood that hard, put it in the vice and use mallet tools. Much easier.

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Truer words haven’t been spoken

[@Sheepdog1314]

beech is heavy, oak as well, but oak is fibrous. Doesn't look like oak....check the bark

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Doesn’t carve like oak either!

[@bobrenda1618]

Chisel and mallet maybe?

[@markcroft1303]

Was it hard wood I don't think you mentioned it 🤔

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Hahaha

[@colinstorey4991]

Hi Alex great video but you'll have to sort out a better Microphone for your narration, even with headphones on I can still miss what you're saying.

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Working on it ! Sorry

[@lhall9381]

I'm not the expert here. Wouldn't it be better to spray the stick with water? (to soften it) before carving.

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

That would have been worth a try!

[@timward2884]

Why are you using the back of the blade! Use the sharp side Alex!

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Hahaha

[@duser2326]

BTW with the spalting on the wood it looks like a very old piece of maple to me. I am no expert just an opinion.

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Could be!

[@TheAstriapo]

Looks like Sycamore.

[@jimwolfe8594]

Just use the dremel

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Agreed, horrible idea to keep going with the knives!

[@misterdudemanguy9771]

Sycamore.

[@artcooper5867]

Maybe....Ash...?

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Could be!

[@jerrodbates8480]

Looks like sycamore

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Didn't carve like it though!

[@dickfantasticalism9946]

Hickory dried and set for atleast a year. Becomes rebar