MINSKE WOODCARVING

Hello. My name is Norm Minske. (My oldest son built this website for me. So, as requested by "him" let me officially state he is my favorite "oldest" son.) I feel compelled to admit I have a hard time being serious for more than 5 minutes at a time* so please consider yourself warned... I've been a woodcarver in some manner of speaking since I was about 8 years old. My dad was a whittler. I was amazed at how real his carvings were. So, I started whittling...knives, swords, forks, Cub Scout/Boy Scout Neckerchief slides and other stuff I don't recall. I stopped carving for a period of time then restarted again about 16 years later when I carved a Santa ornament out of a piece of 1 X 4 pine with a jack knife. For about 10 years, "Santa" ornaments were pretty much all I carved each Christmas till I attended a Mid America Woodcarvers Association show in late Aug of 2009. There, I was introduced to both Cottonwood Bark as a carving medium and Bark Houses as a... thing to carve out of the..