Bleeding Thumb Whittling Club

Sometimes the best source of wood for an urban whittler is simply the furniture discarded on the street. I don't mean those piles of wet...

Ksenias cut of the week. She is washing off some paper that got stuck in the cut after she gaffa-taped her finger to stop the bleeding.

Whittled by Jack out of birch in the summer of 2009. Too horrible to look at directly, like medusa, it is best viewed via some reflective ma...

Whittled out of pine by Janice in summer of 2009. The eyes are natural knots in the wood.

Bleeding Thumb is ambivalent about this particular update, containing as it does good and bad news. First off, the club has obtained a stock...

A chair was attacked last month by a small gang intoxicated with alcohol and tabasco. The chair was reduced to rubble within minutes and spr...

The Mora knife is as much an institution in the average Swedish household as the Ikea Billy bookshelf. The knife is named after a small tow...

The Opinel knife from Savoy in France is undoubtably a design classic, and is certainly suitable for whittling. In fact, my first whittling...

Jack's cut of the week: "This was a cheeky little cut, I barely felt it, and not much blood to show for my trouble. Later I added t...