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How To Whittle

From: Vermont Public Radio
Series: Cool How-Tos
Length: 03:15

Dave Tuttle of Walpole, New Hampshire, provides a lesson on how to whittle. Read the full description.

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Today, a lesson in how to whittle. Not whistle, whittle: the urge to carve figures and objects out of wood is as old as the first sharpened blade and it’s still keeping lots of hands busy today. Dave Tuttle of Walpole, New Hampshire, teaches whittling at craft centers around the country. Today he shows us how to carve an eastern bluebird.

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Host intro:

Today, a lesson in how to whittle. Not whistle, whittle: the urge to carve figures and objects out of wood is as old as the first sharpened blade and it’s still keeping lots of hands busy today. Dave Tuttle of Walpole, New Hampshire, teaches whittling at craft centers around the country. Today he shows us how to carve an eastern bluebird.

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