WOOD CARVING
- Show that you know first aid for injuries and illnesses that could
occur while wood carving, including minor cuts and scratches and splinters.
- Do the following:
- Earn the Totin' Chip recognition.
- Discuss with your merit badge counselor your understanding of the
Safety Checklist for Carving.
- Do the following:
- Explain to your counselor, orally or in writing, the care and use
of five types of tools that you may use in a carving project.
- Tell your counselor how to care for and use several types of
sharpening devices, then demonstrate that you know how to use these
devices.
- Using a piece of scrap wood or a project on which you are working, show
your merit badge counselor that you know how to do the following:
- Paring cut
- Basic cut and push cut
- Score line
- Stop cut
- Tell why different woods are used for different projects. Explain why
you chose the type of wood you did for your projects in requirements 6 and
7.
- Plan your own or select a project from this merit badge pamphlet and
complete a simple carving in the round.
- Complete a simple low-relief OR a chip carving project.
BSA Advancement ID#: 118
Source: Boy Scout Requirements, #33215E, revised 2002
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