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The Barry McKenzie Chip Carving School is located outside the city limits of Lebanon, Missouri in a quiet country setting. I have no fixed shop hours and on the front of the barn it says "PLEASE CALL AHEAD" 1-417-532-8434." If I'm here I will be glad to open up the shop to show you around to my many one-of-a-kind chip carvings on display.

You might find me in my connecting wood working shop building something to chip carve on, or at the computer in the house or out in my gazebo in a rocking chair reading a good book or watching the fish jump in the pond or in my easy chair in the house chip carving. Please feel free to stop by to ask about chip carving. Please call ahead 417-532-8434

Summary of my activities:

My goal in life is in the preservation of chip carving by promoting chip carving as we know and practice it today. Having taught for 15 years the art form of wood carving called chip carving- my technique is to find methods and styles of chip carving that works best for us.  

The "Chip Carvers Quarterly" newsletter is the only newsletter for chip carving today. Sarted on April 1995 with 63 issues published to date. Each issue is free of advertising with 24 pages just for chip carver with information you can use. This means over about 15 years over 1200 pages of related chip carving. Back issues of the newsletter are a valuable source of information and inspiration shared by the chip carving community.

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My Background:

My 30 years in mechanical drafting and design as a mechanical design draftsman and Lead Senior Electrical Wiring Designer in design engineering in Power Plant construction was the aquired knowledge in understanding the mechanics of Why things work the way they do and a way to apply this discipline to my chip carving.

Many come to my workshops to learn chip carving the right way by learning the mechanics first. Any bad habits are corrected and replaced by sound techniques that will work best for them. I feel many instructors do not cover working the wood grain enough.

I cover not just the traditional geometric angular deep chip but also shallow chip and "Old World" style chip, icicle ornaments, lettering, piercing through thin wood  and my "new" leaf design. The icicle ornament is always in demand.

My travels meeting chip carvers in Switzerland, Italy, Sweden and the Netherlands has given me exposure to those "Old World" methods of non-traditional chip carving I apply succefully in my chip carving today.

I have sponsored chip carvers to the USA from Sweden, Italy, Romania and The Netherlands in the past to teach chip carving here in the US which has given us more insight in the various "Old World" style methods and styles of chip carving expanding our worldly views in the community of chip carvers.

Resently my development of the leaf design, tramp art  and leaf design in my chip carving has taken my chip carving to a whole new level and direction. This includes chip carved wooden Christmas Tree icicle ornaments.

WELCOME TO MY WONDERFUL WORLD OF CHIP CARVING!

Enjoy this website as a overview into my activity in chip carving.