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Introduction

This text is written with the new carver, or someone looking to try carving, in mind. The instructions, with accompanying photographs, take the reader cut-by-cut from a small block of wood to a completed Little Guy. Experienced carvers should expect to move through these steps fairly quickly, adding their own ideas to the figure as they go. There seems to be no shortage of books in print showing how to carve cowboys, hillbillies, Santas, and hermits, so it is my intent to use an occupational study that most of us are more familiar with on an everyday basis: the executive. If your boss is a great person, you could carve a caricature of him. If not, I’m sure psychologists everywhere would agree about the therapeutic value of a knife in one hand and a representation of your authority figure in the other. Just be sure to keep track of your thumbs. But anyway, with a little change here or there, the executive can become a soldier, hunter, fireman, doctor, fisherman, Native American, and so on.

I’d like to add a disclaimer here before we get going. The book is about carving Little Guys, but please don’t think I have anything against carving Little Gals, or Little Girls, or even Little Women. Some of my favorite carvings are females, as are my favorite wife and daughter. My intent is simply to avoid a text full of he/she, his/her, and Guy/Girl. Thanks for understanding.