Woodcarving is an art form wherein different power tools and objects are used to chisel out a shape, form and style from a rogue and uncouth piece of wood.

The art of carving requires tremendous skills on the part of artist and craftsman. Wood carving renders the wood all the required elegance, beauty and grandeur.

The phrase also largely alludes to variety of  finished wooden products that are hand crafted and molded by individual sculptures. 

Woodcarving  was a predominant styling feature in middle ages in France, Italy and England.

The carvings depicted gothic designs, architectures, and emblems, which were finely done on the wooden surface, primarily Oak and Teak, to embellish the furniture and unifiy it with home surroundings.

Woodcarving is primarily practiced on high quality wood pieces that include mahogany, teak, oak, cedar, and elm because of their hard wood features.

Carving outshines the wooden furniture and so much so that your furniture piece seems to bear a celestial panorama altogether.

Woodcarving is usually done for cabinets, beds, and almirahs on visible wooden surface, in order to render a unique symphony between your rooms and furniture.

Some of the major tools used for woodcarving include back bbent, palm tools, tang, bolster, ferrule and rockwell hardness. 

All these tools are used in various combinationations to give edges of wood a spruced up image.

Most commonly practiced styles of woodcarving include chip, relief and caricature carving, besides,  scandinavian flat-plane, love spoon, treen and whittling.