Scouting/BSA/Wood Carving Merit Badge

Requirement 1
Do the following:
 * A. Explain to your counselor the hazards you are most likely to encounter while wood carving, and what you should do to anticipate, help prevent, mitigate, or lessen these hazards.
 * B. Show that you know first aid for injuries or illnesses that could occur while wood carving, including minor cuts and scratches and splinters.

Requirement 2
Do the following:
 * A. Earn the Totin' Chip recognition.
 * B. Discuss with your merit badge counselor your understanding of the Safety Checklist for Carving.

Requirement 3
Do the following:
 * A. Explain to your counselor, orally or in writing, the care and use of five types of tools that you may use in a carving project.
 * B. Tell your counselor how to care for and use several types of sharpening devices, then demonstrate that you know how to use these devices.

Requirement 4
Using a piece of scrap wood or a project on which you are working, show your merit badge counselor that you know how to do the following:
 * A. Paring cut
 * B. Basic cut and push cut
 * C. "V" cut
 * D. Score line or Stop cut

Requirement 5
Tell why different woods are used for different projects. Explain why you chose the type of wood you did for your projects in requirements 6 and 7.

Requirement 6
Plan your own or select a project from this [Wood Carving] merit badge pamphlet and complete a simple carving in the round.

Requirement 7
Complete a simple low-relief OR a chip carving project.