All the pieces on this page are each whittled from one piece of
wood using only a selection of knives and scalpels.

 

Here we have nine balls in seperate cages on the top and the same on the bottom, with three revolving cages inside each other, with a ball in the centre, for the middle pillar. It stands 5.5 inches high and is 2.5 inches square, carved in lime.

 

 

 

The fan is a real challenge for any whittler. Carved from one piece and then split into 32 blades 1mm thick when wet.Just make sure that the timber has a strong grain to assist splitting after carving. This fan is 8.5 inches across the diameter.

 

This ball cage is whittled from lime and is 6 inches high by 2.5 inches in diameter. It is an eight bar cage which contains two free balls, and rotates inside another eight bar cage.

A wheel chain designed by the late Cecil Houghton, whittled in lime and is 6 inches in diameter and 1 inch thick

Chain mail, whittled in lime with links 1.25 inches in diameter. The overall size is 5.5 by 7.5 inches

This chain tower, in lime, has 8 chains around a solid centre pillar. It is 6 inches high and 2.5 inches square. I am still working on it, and, as I make each link thinner, so the chains will get longer.