Wood Carving Merit Badge

Wood Carving
Merit badge requirements
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  1. Give the qualities of wood that are useful for carving. Tell why you chose the wood used in requirements 4 and 5.

  2. Do the following:

    1. Describe five wood-carving tools. Tell their use.

    2. Describe several kinds of sharpening stones. Tell how they are used.

    3. Show how to sharpen a pocketknife and other tools used in wood carving. Use a sharpening stone and a "slipstick" that you have made.

  3. Show the safety principles for using a pocketknife and wood carving tools.

  4. Plan and carve in the round a simple object. Prepare it for finish.

  5. Plan and carve in low relief a design on some simple object. Prepare it for finish.

Merit badge requirements courtesy of Troop 586 Farmington