SHERRODSVILLE ‒ Using a chainsaw and a few other tools, Dan Kidd can transform the stump of a dead tree into a work of art. Kidd, 66, owner of Conotton Creek Woodworks in Scio, has been carving wooden ...

A career in chainsaw carving wasn’t always in Heath Bender’s plans. Marrying a fellow chainsaw artist was even further from his mind. But that’s exactly what happened and Bender, of Cedar Mountain ...

DIVIDE • Michelangelo saw the angel in the marble and carved until he set it free. Johnny Busby sees the bear, eagle or bigfoot in a tree stump, and whittles at it with a chainsaw until he sets it ...

Shari Staiduhar added a new highlight this week to her long career as a chainsaw carving artist. She did that by making her first appearance as a featured performer at the Lake County Fair. Staiduhar, ...

EDWARDSVILLE — In much the same way that grisly car crashes draw drivers’ attention from the road, Brian Willis’s carved owls are drawing drivers’ attention from a stretch of Franklin Avenue. “Wally ...

Chainsaws are the most brutish of power tools, which makes them seem unlikely to be used as a carving utensil. But a small band of chainsaw artists have elevated their craft, and created some amazing ...

Football fans, the Lombardi trophy is at the Iowa State Fair. So is a bear doing a handstand. And an eagle carrying the American flag in its mouth. And soon, Caitlin Clark will join that group. The ...

Watching a woodcarver use an assortment of chain saws and tools to transform a stump, branch or entire section of a tree trunk into a bird, bear or other mammal is downright fascinating. Todd ...

CALEDONIA — Dressed in a pink hat and shirt with pink shoes and gloves, Sherry Lou Martin doesn’t look like your typical chainsaw artist. She is “a chick,” the 55-year-old Caledonia grandma says. She ...