About two years ago I began carving faces, flowers, and bugs on the scrap pieces of wood that I cut off my walking sticks. For years I looke...

In an earlier blog entry someone suggested that I have a fire building contest where the Scouts must boil a pot of water to win. During Janu...

Some dictionaries define fixation as an unhealthy preoccupation with something, but looking at it from an educational aspect in the woodsho...

For more than 5 years I've been using this American flag for the relief carving requirement when my Scouts are working on the woodcarvin...

How could I let February slip by without mentioning the centennial of Scouting in America . Although it first originated in the United Kingd...

I know that I'm the teacher but I continue to learn volumes in knowledge from the students in my woodshop class with every passing year....

With the best winter weather in years I just can't seem to get enough "snow" to satisfy my needs which is something that...

This is a quick one minute clip from one of my woodshop classes last week. We build, carve, and burn a variety of projects but, like today...