It’s not every day I get to encourage our readers to play with knives, but whittling wood might just be humankind’s second oldest playtime hobby — right after throwing large rocks into bodies of water ...

I’d better make something if I’m going to spend whittling time’,” he told The Gazette in 1955. William Wilker, 94, of Wyoming, Iowa, holds a wooden chain he whittled from a single piece of ...