Welcome to Byron and Anne's carving page

Byron's Story
Byron started carving in 1993. In the begining Byron and Anne were hikers and backpackers (still are). Sitting under a tarp one rainy trip Byron got thinking about what might be enjoyable to do while sitting around a campfire. He mentioned the his lovely wife (that's Anne) that carving might be an enjoyable thing to do. On Byron's very next birthday he was given a box with some carving knives, a book, and 3 blocks of wood. After many thoughts wondering where to begin a squirrel was created. Carved from a rough-out and a plastic squirrel was used to as a model.

Anne's Story
Anne didn't start carving until 1999. Anne was going with Byron to carving meetings and carve-ins. At carve-ins she would work at cleaning up ghost knots. She finished up the last ghost knot she had. She got bored and looked the community cut-out box. She selected a small duck blank. Then came over to Byron's tools and asked if she could use a knife. She's still carving.

Byron's collection of little guys are a nice size carving to take backpacking. Most of these were carved while we were backpacking.

Byron's Christmas Pins.
Every year Byron carves a Christmas Pin for our 4 daugheters. Here you'll find pictures of the pins carved to date.

Byron's Christmas Ornaments
Byron carves a Christmas Ornament for each of the grandchildren