Wood chips start to fly at Whittle the Wood 2022
Wood chips are flying and Loudy Simpson Park is filled with the buzz of chainsaws, as artists sculpt their pieces for the city’s annual Whittle the Wood carving contest.
This year there are eight competitors — Damon Gorecki, Kadin Gurney, Nate Hall, Bongo Love, Matt Ounsworth, Joe Srholez, Chad Stratton and Jim Valentine — and they are hard at work turning their logs into works of art after setting up shop early Wednesday morning.
All of the carvers are returning challengers for the Whittle the Wood competition except for Gurney, who is competing for the first time.
Walking through the workstations on day one of the event, the wood carvings were already starting to take shape.
Whittle the Wood will be open to the public for free, so anyone can stop by to watch the artists at work.
Carvers will continue to polish the pieces until Saturday afternoon, when the chainsaws must come to a stop, and the pieces will be weighed by a panel of local judges.
To see a wood carving competition take place in quick time, there will be a live chainsaw carving contest on Saturday where carvers have only an hour to complete their creations.
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