It’s not every day I get to encourage our readers to play with knives, but whittling wood might just be humankind’s second oldest playtime hobby — right after throwing large rocks into bodies of water ...

YELLVILLE — Violet Hensley, a noted fiddle maker and musician known as the “Whittling Fiddler” and as the “Stradivarius of the Ozarks,” celebrated her 109th birthday Tuesday, Oct. 21, surrounded by ...

1. Make sure your knife is sharp. 2. Your knife must be really sharp! 3. Don t try carving with a knife that isn t sharp ... You get the point. For more than 30 years, the good-humored Lubkemann, who ...