Author name: Guts and Seeds

Mistakes happen to everyone, even experienced carvers. Most carving accidents are fixable, and a repaired pumpkin will still look great […]

This chapter is for grown-ups. Kids and younger teens, the wood carving and clay tool method in Sculpting — With

This chapter is for grown-ups. Kids and younger teens, the wood carving tool method in Scraping — With Wood Carving

This section is for grown-ups. Kids and younger teens, the wood carving tool method in Chapter 44 will get you

Sculpting is what can take a carving from awesome to incredible. Where scraping removes the skin to create a flat

Now that you have your scrape line boundaries cut and your saw hole boundaries sawed, it’s time to remove the

Before you start scraping the skin off, you need a shallow cut along all the scrape lines first. This gives

This step is best done on the day you plan to display your pumpkin, typically Halloween. Every piece you remove

For this step you’ll need a pumpkin carving saw, the small serrated blade that comes in most pumpkin carving kits.

This step is for Styles 3 and 3+ only. If your stencil doesn’t have any black Sharpie areas, skip ahead