This year I carved a little pumpkin patch for someone with an October birthday. The Snoopy and Woodstock were later additions since she liked Charlie Brown. All pieces are out of hardwoods including Cherry, Walnut, Paduk, Mahogany and Redheart. They are all finished with my homemade beeswax then handrubbed to get a subtle matte finish. The turkeys were a later addition so it could be used for Thanksgiving as well.
Surprisingly the pumpkins are really difficult to carve. Any flat spots or errors in shape stand out much more than in other shapes. I don’t know the science behind it, but the human visual system is highly attuned to seeing errors in spherical shapes.
