Choose Your Gnome - Simple Beginner Friendly Woodcarving Tutorial For any Season

Thank you for your videos, I’m only carving around 6 weeks now and your tutorials have gave me a great advantage in the art

I have learned a great deal from your any-experience-level videos. Thank you for everything you do! I just wish I could show you the carvings you 've inspired.

What wood is that?

Hi Doug. First I want to thank you. I decided to learn how to carve after having Neck surgery. I needed something constructive to do while I sat on my butt healing. My first project was Pocket Penguin. I made six of them Including Ice blocks. I have carved several of your other Beginner projects including Chose your Gnome. I am now carving little stylized whales and Whale tail scoops with a direction of learning to carve realism. Thank you so much for your videos as I would not have gotten this far with out your Guidance. I love my new hobby and using it to bring joy to others gifting my creations. One day I garbed a hard wood shaving brush and carved a very simple Viking in to it. I am getting ready to carve another Shaving Brush but want it to be a Gnome or Hillbilly with Bare Feet. Which leads me to my question. Can you do a video on Hillbilly style Bare Feet? Thank you again for all your help and consideration. Sincerely Brian

Thank you again for this video. I used this as inspiration to make a gnome chess set!

Great tips! Thanks so much for posting.

I find myself going thru a real bad time in life. Stumbling across your channel has really helped me to keep going. I got a cheap set of carving knives and I find your tutorials so easy to follow. I have a lot of practice to do in order to be happy with my own work but you make me feel like I can get there.
Thank you for all of your videos

always interesting

I really enjoyed your videos, thank you. I started by watching about carving on my walking sticks and now I can't wait to carve one of these little guys!!!

Thanks

Hello Doug
I started carving about 3months ago and really enjoy it ! I was introduced to it by a close friend but haven't progressed much until I watched your video "choose your gnome" it has been soooo helpful my knife skills have improved exponentially thanks to your videos. Thank you for what you do will be following your videos closely.

Linker, you quickly mentioned "going over it" a bit and something about boiling, could you expand on that? I'm assuming by going over you mean sanding it a little? I'm very new to this. thanks!

great,Enjoyed.

I love this one. Sat down on Saturday and knocked out a variation on this. Thank you.

What is that tool called you used to mark it?

when you carve, it looks like you're carving soap....when I carve ...its definitely NOT! LOL! Thank you for making these videos, I just started and getting better with each one.

Wanted to start whittling and dident know wear to start surched for ages . Then came across your videos it's amayzing made some little bits and have lurnt things on the way . Love your work a great inspiration.

Woohoo a leprechaun. Just getting back into wood carving and whittling. Making special little treats for each of my kids the finished a mushroom fairy house for my youngest now doing a leprechaun for my middle St Patty's Day daughter.

Can I still use the same measurements if I have a 5 inch block of wood.

Very nice step by step guide, i need such things for i am an absolute beginner. Love carving, tho!

At 73 yrs old, you have talked me into a new hobby! Thank you for the great slow paced videos and for sharing your expertise. I've always loved working with wood, but having moved into a small apartment with no place for larger power tools, this is just what I needed to keep my retirement days busy. Thanks again, I'm lovin' it.

Nice, gonna try a Santa gnome since I'm watching in December.

Where do you get your wood? That piece is beautiful!

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I love this channel ;) I’ve just bought my first knife flexicut and I want to start just now but waiting for safety glove ;) I need my fingers😅 I can’t wait to start! We will see!!! Who is starting with me in 2023? Wish you all luck.

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you should collect you chips for your little outdoor coffee stove . Jim's wood shop.😁

I just ordered so tools to get started and I CANNOT wait until they get here! I'm so excited to start after watching a bunch of your videos. I've wanted to try for so long but just never got the guts to do it untl watching you so THANK YOU!

Great carve. I'm going to start my Christmas Gnome tomorrow.

Balsa wood? Cuts like butter

Hey Doug, I love your videos. You have taught me so much about whittling. I watch all your videos, I think? I have not however, seen a video of you stropping a knife. I would love to see your technique on stropping. Thanks for all your carving education!! Much appreciated 👍

Anyone have any ideas on how can I find soft wood? Everything I am working with is either rock hard or very fibrous. Thank you for all the videos and motivation.

Hey Doug, I just wanted to say thank you for taking the time and care you take to make all of these videos! I got into whittling because of them, and it's opened up my life in the most unforeseen ways lol I'm very happy I found your channel and I hope to keep watching and carving until I can't or I cut off some fingers 😂 Thank you and have a great day! 🪵🔪🪵

That's cool yeah man that's cool

I'm starting today! My tools arrived yesterday along with my basswood. Can't wait! Thanks for all your encouragement and teaching. Gosh, I'm even speaking Canadian now!!

Thanks!

It's easy!!!! Just cut away all the wood which isn't face and hat. Even Michaelangelo knew that.

Carving gnomes now, thankyou so much!

you're like the Bob Ross of woodcarving! Great video! I can't wait to make some of these.

Great video. Lots learned from it.

Thank Doug I love these

Oh, this one should have been the Swedish Chef from Sesame Street.

The Bob Ross of carving

Yes! Just what I was looking for! Thanx Sir Doug!

Bonjour, puis je savoir quelle essence de bois vous utilisez. Merci

Hi Doug I am a beginner and enjoying your videos did the Monrovia star today

Thank you Doug for yet one more little project. These are great little practice carvings - not a ton of details to worry about. Many different little characters from the same “design” & lots of room to improvise & customize. Perfect. 👍👏🏻👏🏻

Hi Doug! I'm still here even though I haven't made a coment...as I'm sure MANY, MANY other's have also... I REALLY enjoy your short, simple projects as it gives me sooo many ideas that I can carve for my grand children to play with and 'maybe' inspire them and their parents to become wood carvers also... Wonderful presentation and now I have sooo many ther ideas to carve similar simple and quick projects! AGAIN!!! Thanks sooo much for all you do and inspire in ALL of us!!!

Hi Doug ! How can I clean the strop when it gets dirty ?