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Carving Pumpkins: Jack-O-Lanterns Of The Twenty-First Century Every year at Halloween, jack-o-lanterns are everywhere. Many of them don't even look like a traditional jack-o-lantern anymore. They could look like a graveyard, a haunted house, a witch on a broomstick or bats flying through the air. They're really fun to make. So let's go make one! Carving Pumpkins: How To Carve A Traditional Jack-O-Lantern If you ever wanted to know how to carve a traditional jack-o-lantern, here it is. It's a really nice skill to pass on. It's very simple, very easy and it can be done in an hour. Wood Carving: How To Make A Gouge Honing Board When your gouge has lost its razor-sharpness, one way to bring the edges back to pristine condition is to use a gouge honing board. You can easily make it yourself in less than an hour. And it works very fast. Wood Carving: How To Sharpen Straight Chisels If you're going to be a true wood carver, you really should learn how to sharpen your own tools. And straight chisels are the easiest carving tools to sharpen. Once you know how to do it correctly, you could sharpen any other straight-edged tool in your collection. Wood Carving: Choosing The Best Tools If you're going to be a wood carver and not just a whittler, you'll need to select a number of tools. You could use just a handful and work with small projects. Or you could use a variety, including power tools, to work on really large projects. There's just no way around it. So what are the right tools for wood carving? Whittling: Whittling vs. Wood Carving Whittling is the most basic form of wood carving but it is not actually the art of wood carving, as it is done today. If you have no care to rush, you want to take your time and see what happens, whittling could be for you. But if you'd like to see just how skilled you can be, how good you are at bringing out details, wood carving may be just what you're looking for.