Wood Carving Merit Badge
Learn carving safety, master essential cuts, select appropriate woods, and complete carving in the round plus relief or chip carving projects to earn this merit badge.
What you'll do
- Carving Safely Explain to your counselor the hazards you are most likely to encounter while wood carving, and what you should do to …
- Totin' Chip and Safety Checklist Earn the Totin’ Chip recognition.
- Tools and Sharpening Explain to your counselor, orally or in writing, the care and use of five types of tools that you may use in a carving …
- Practice the Basic Cuts Using a piece of scrap wood or a project on which you are working, show your counselor that you know how to do the …
At a glance
- Requirements
- 7
- Category
- Arts and Crafts
- Eagle Required
- No
- Updated
- March 29, 2026