Whittling a Flower Out of Wood - Easy Wood Carving Project

One of the things I have always wanted to try was whittling a flower out of a solid piece of wood. I have seen where people shave off petals and glue them together to make a flower, but I wanted to make it out of a solid block.
It took me a total of two and a half hours to make but was very much worth it in the end!
Tools used:
Flexcut Detail Knife
OCC Tools Roughing Knife
Basswood purchased from Treeline USA
#whittling #woodcarving #handmade

[@theflyingchicken7997]

i first found your channel from watching the fox video. i thought it was actually such a cool thing to do so i ordered my own knife and some wood and actually did it too. i wanted to do something else so today i followed this tutorial too and made the flower for my girlfriend. i’m so happy i decided to pick up this hobby and it’s all due to your videos. sincerely, thank you!

[@GabrielsTears]

Beautiful!! What I like about even more is that you taught is it is ok to experiment and we don't have to stress over perfection. Just enjoy the process. This gave me hope that I might be able to do one.

[@CarvingisFun]

Thanks! What I have found is striving for perfection can prevent growth and learning, especially for beginners.

[@anritigra4944]

​@@CarvingisFunодной этой фразой, вы поставили себя в один ряд, с великими философами всех времен👏👏👏👍🤝

[@tomevans4402]

Love it. I carve a lot of found wood just for something different. I have some bass wood that’s harder than it should be for some reason. I’ll try the flower thank you.

[@CarvingisFun]

Have fun!

[@kingofcod_yt9234]

Imma try this then let my kids paint it. This is awesome.

[@RAUL7487]

Thanks for the video... I'm on the flower right now and for medium dense/hard wood like pear seems to me pretty tough, pretty many small details. A challenge to me. Thanks again, from Madrid.

[@timlist4173]

Nice job.

[@tonyvice4244]

I really want to get good at this but man is it hard and you all make it look so easy 😢

[@CarvingisFun]

Practice and understanding how the wood is going to cut helps. You got this!

[@andreamazaiegos7779]

Following to make my daughter a birthday gift for her 2nd birthday!! Thank you Would love to see if you could do a swan! My daughters 1st birthday theme this year coming ❤

[@peteroberts7334]

Good carving !!!

[@CarvingisFun]

Thank you!

[@Mikeyfingers22]

Dude thats sick!!

[@michelegrand3921]

Hi Brian, I watch the video again and I see that you are wearing protective gloves which look very comfortable and effective. do you have the references for these gloves please? Thank you for your response, Michèle

[@CarvingisFun]

Howdy Michèle! I was testing out some gloves in this video, they are actually slice resistant welding gloves! They have leather palms to reduce cuts and pokes. This company no longer makes them, but another company, Andanda makes some similar ones and they are quite nice!

[@naterosenthal1019]

Title: *Easy* woodcarving project Him for the first 2 minutes of the video: “Now this might not actually be possible and could totally not work”

[@CarvingisFun]

Ha!! Yep, Im kinda sounding like a hypocrite :)

[@None_of_your_business666]

my first carving was a pipe from a branch i found somewhere. took me 10h.

[@tiebukki1509]

Cool it's so amazing

[@CarvingisFun]

Thanks!

[@michelegrand3921]

So do 👍☺️, it's a real pleasure to watch you work. I discovered you sculpting a tulip in linden. if you give the measurements of the piece of wood I would be happy but for later, because I would like to limit myself to small animals and not to disperse too much. Votre premier couteau utilisé pour la fleur est un couteau à lame fine non biseauté. Est-ce préférable pour ce genre de sculpture fine ? Merci pour votre réponse Michèle

[@CarvingisFun]

I honestly don't know the measurements of the flower as I just randomly decided to carve it and it is currently at my mothers house. But I would focus on carving what you are comfortable with for now. I like using thinner knives without a bevel, they seem to cut through the wood easily and require less work to keep sharp.

[@michelegrand3921]

@@CarvingisFun Merci de votre réponse. En fait, moi aussi j’aime mieux les couteaux non biseautés. Seulement, il est difficile d’en trouver en Europe. Nous avons cherché beaucoup et le seul que nous ayons trouvé était le Pfeil avec sa pointe émoussée et sa lame extrêmement large. Sinon je suis fidèle à l’Opinel. Malheureusement je ne connais pas de couteaux de sculpture de cette marque ;) À vous lire et regarder avec grand plaisir comme intérêt Michèle

[@ParaFox404]

I wanna make a rose seein this, and or maybe a lil lily both terrible ideas, roses are excessively complicated, lily's atleast what im thinking are big flat fucks I have yet to get the stuff or anything rn I am just *absorbing knowledge* watching the cuts and figuring out the methodical process. You not wanting to do the same thing over n over n do random stuff makes me think you would really like Zelda: Breath of the Wild since thats the whole game, doing random stuff just to see what happens. I however have them juicy mental illnesses so getting out of my own head is a bit of a challenge nowadays, so far the way you "teach" for lack of a better word is really encouraging HOWEVER sharp knife look very scary and i feel like I will find a way to disembowel myself doin this, but I am planning to get into knife throwing around the same time so honestly I will get over that pretty quick... or yknow... I'll be dead and its not my problem anymore

[@CarvingisFun]

Absorbing before jumping in fives ya more of a better idea of what you want to get and what to make first, so I encourage it :) I haven't been ablr to play a game all the way through lately and most games just have me playing halfway through n stop for a year or so. This makes most skills based games hard to pick back up and They just sit there unfinished. You learn to work with the knives and by using small controlled cuts will prevent injury. Also, wearing protective gloves will protect your hands as well.

[@ParaFox404]

Absolutely The game is less skill and more creativity, a lot of problems can be solved by thinking outside the box and its a Nintendo game so the entry level skills needed to pick up and play aren't intense, you could if you were really good run from the first area to the last boss straight away, or you can be like me and ignore that completely and just wander in a random direction and mess with stuff, like if you have the money i think you would really like it just from how you approach this stuff Gonna wear full chainmail heheh

[@aaronshaw7852]

How did you clean out around the petals

[@CarvingisFun]

I used a sharp, thin, detail knife with small and precise cuts. The cuts were in a shape of a v, where the tip of the blade would intersect the bottom at the same spot and remove small chunks.

[@aaronshaw7852]

@@CarvingisFun ok thank you I’m really new to carving I will have to look for that knife

[@mahirtek9498]

How long is this tulip in centimeters? Does anyone know? Also the leaves and pot and its head.

[@CarvingisFun]

The original block was 2.8 x 2.8 cm I can measure it when I get home, but you really don't have to have exact proportions. I litterally just winged it :)

[@mahirtek9498]

@@CarvingisFun thanks for the reply, much appreciated

[@CarvingisFun]

Overall height = 13.5 cm Pot height = 4 cm Stem height = 5 cm Tulip height = 4.5 cm Leaf lenth = 2 cm Leaf height on stem = 2.5 cm All measurements are approximate

[@mahirtek9498]

@@CarvingisFun I just winged my tulip too without exact measurements as you have suggested. It turned out just fine I think. Next time will be using the exact measurements tho cuz it turned out a little too slender. Thanks for the reply again.

[@licoriceisgross5131]

I really need to buy gloves

[@the_annihilator5810]

can you do a dolphin?

[@CarvingisFun]

Its on my list of ideas to get around to :)

[@the_annihilator5810]

@@CarvingisFun got someone asking for one and tryna figure out how i can get the *perfect* curve

[@CarvingisFun]

I do an example of how to carve a curve with the wood grain in my ghost carving tutorial. It could be a good start.

[@Nverlayup]

What is your starting block size?

[@CarvingisFun]

I believe this was a 1.5" x 1.5" x 5" block of wood used in the end. I used the practice block from Treeline USA here: treelineusa.com/basswood-practice-block-1/