These are pattens from the "Whittlin' Jim" column that ran for many
years in Boys Life.
Sadly, they discontinued it, probably because so few people were
whittling anymore.
My father got a lot of his ideas from these, and clipped the
columns and used them in his classes; there's a lot of good stuff
in here, for
beginners and advanced carvers.
There are several other collections of these, even here on this site,
but I think you will find that these have been scanned at a
higher resoluvtion and thus will print out more clearly.
NOTE: Many of the "Whittlin' Jim" slides come from the era before
"political correctness", when caricatures of people, including native
peoples, were considered amusing and acceptable. If any of these
images disturb you, that's too bad.
