It starts as 48x4x8 block of wood, but when Norman Altman sits behind his work bench in Syracuse, he sees Santa Claus in the raw material. Each year, Norman Altman hand-carves and paints wooden Santa ...

Give Jim Calkins a piece of wood and a carving knife and he's a happy man. He's been carving Santa Claus figurines for 27 years. He also creates snowmen and angels -- all starting from a simple block ...

Goody’s Decoys, the name on a shop on Elkridge’s Main Street, disguises what really goes on inside. Seated at a workbench is a jolly man with a silvery white beard and a round belly. Late into the ...

SALEM, Va. (WDBJ) - “A little piece at a time, see, you can shave it,” says Thomas Crickenberger as he works on another carving. All he needs to stay entertained for hours is a pocket knife and a ...

BROCKTON — If you drive through Stoughton regularly, you may have seen a man sitting outside doing wood carvings of little Santas. He is 76-year-old Warren Dahlin and his creations aren't actually ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo.—About 50 years ago, Jim Siegl picked up a block of wood and an X-Acto knife, and he began to carve. Soon that block of wood was transformed into a tiny elephant—and Jim had begun ...

Jack York, an avid wood carver is using his carving talent to make eagle head canes from basswood for wounded soldiers returning from the War on Terror. York carves ...