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Name written in red indicates that the carving is still available.

I usually use walnut wood. It can be in different shades depending on where it used to grow. It's structure is dense enough for carvings this small and, most importantly, it can practically last forever.

I recently started using box wood too (genus Buxus; mine is probably B. Sempervirens). In Serbian it's called shimshir. It's a shrub, widely grown as a hedge plant. It's light yellow (in time turns honey colored) and very dense and hard.

Wanna learn how to do this? Here it is: you take a piece of metal, shove it into some sort of a handle so that you can hold it safely, sharpen it, and then use it to cut and carve a piece of wood until it starts to look like one of these (see pictures above), and then you stop. It's quite simple a procedure, it just takes a lot of time and work. Try not to lose any fingers while learning. If you live in some normal country you can skip the part about home made tools and just go and buy a set of carving knives. That's all there is to it. If you've got it in you it's gonna be a piece of cake, and if you don't you can always hire me.