Wood carving for beginners with three basic cuts: the push cut, the pull cut, and the stop cut. See how we carve a complete ghost with just these three.
🔸 The kit we used: Ghosts Wood Carving Kit → https://beavercrafttools.com/products...

Beginner tutorials can pile up the names of carving cuts until it feels like you need to learn them all before you can start. In this video, we take a basswood block and one knife and carve a complete ghost using just three basic cuts. We also show what happens when a cut goes past the pencil line, how a stop cut can help prevent that, and what these three cuts can't do on their own.

In this video we:
strop the knife before the first cut
show the push cut, the pull cut and the stop cut up close, and which thumb does what in each
repeat a cut that ran past the line, this time with a stop cut first
explain where these three cuts stop being enough
carve a ghost from the kit pattern, with a label for each cut, and paint its face

Chapters:
0:00 The cut that didn't stop
0:25 You don't need a list of cuts
1:00 The three cuts
2:37 Why three go so far
4:05 What these three can't do
4:54 One ghost, start to finish
7:35 What to carve next

Tools we used:
🔸 Ghosts Wood Carving Kit → https://beavercrafttools.com/products...
🔸 C2 Wood Carving Bench Knife → https://beavercrafttools.com/products...
🔸 Extra tape for when the roll in the kit runs out: NCT6 Cut-Resistant Finger Tape → https://beavercrafttools.com/products...
🔸 BW7 Set of Basswood Carving Blocks → https://beavercrafttools.com/products...