# Wood Carving Merit Badge Requirements

- Eagle-required: No
- Category: Arts and Crafts
- Official requirements: https://www.scouting.org/merit-badges/wood-carving/
- Pamphlet: https://filestore.scouting.org/filestore/Merit_Badge_ReqandRes/Pamphlets/Wood%20Carving.pdf
- Last synced from scouting.org: 2026-03-29
- Overview: https://merit-badge.university/merit-badges/wood-carving/index.md
- Digital Resource Guide: https://merit-badge.university/merit-badges/wood-carving/guide/index.md

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.

## Requirements

- **1** *Carving Safely* (Do all) Do the following:
  - **1.a** Explain to your counselor the hazards you are most likely to encounter while wood carving, and what you should do to anticipate, help prevent, mitigate, or lessen these hazards.
  - **1.b** Show that you know first aid for injuries that could occur while wood carving, including minor cuts and scratches and splinters.
- **2** *Totin' Chip and Safety Checklist* (Do all) Do the following:
  - **2.a** Earn the Totin' Chip recognition.
  - **2.b** Discuss with your counselor your understanding of the Safety Checklist for Carving.
- **3** *Tools and Sharpening* (Do all) Do the following:
  - **3.a** Explain to your counselor, orally or in writing, the care and use of five types of tools that you may use in a carving project.
  - **3.b** Tell your counselor how to care for and use several types of sharpening devices, then demonstrate that you know how to use these devices.
- **4** *Practice the Basic Cuts* (Do all) Using a piece of scrap wood or a project on which you are working, show your counselor that you know how to do the following:
  - **4.a** Paring cut
  - **4.b** Basic cut and push cut
  - **4.c** "V" cut
  - **4.d** Stop cut or score line
- **5** *Choosing the Right Wood* Tell why different woods are used for different projects. Explain why you chose the type of wood you did for your projects in requirements 6 and 7.
- **6** *Carving in the Round* Plan your own or select a project from the Wood Carving merit badge pamphlet and complete a simple carving in the round.
- **7** *Relief or Chip Carving* Complete a simple low-relief OR a chip carving project.