Show whittling grows from mere pastime into a distinctively beautiful art whittling lias has developed from a mere pastime into an art today there are whittling prize contests and exhibits in which the skill of uie the jack jackknife knife sculptors form interesting attractions one of the jackknife sculptors whose carvin carvings 9 have attracted a great deal ol 01 or attention is herbert anderson a cowboy who once rode the lange iange in colorado during his spare time thine and at night around tile the campfire andy as he was familiarly known in his ing dg days would take out his jackknife and wi whittle little out figures of the various characters around the camp indians and tough characters were ills his specialty later lie he gave up being a cowboy and established what he called a trading post where he spent all his time carving his strange wooden figures the ex cowboy never took a lesson in his life but his miniatures are unusually true to lo life A jackknife and any kind of wood and a western masterpiece ter piece is the result the kind of whittling which has been developed by herbert anderson is far beyond tile the crude work of tile the ordinary whittler who shaves away at a piece niece of wood merely to kill time the expert jackknife sculptor finds finda an endless fascination lit in carving lifelike statuettes out of pieces of wood M many any of which can be modified to suit some home practical purpose the jackl inife artist knows how to secure the best results by creating a sort of a roughhewn rough hewn effect which he gets by ills his intentional failure to carve his images with unerring accuracy kach each object Is ulu usually ally finished off with sandpaper which further liel heightens bitens tile effect of tile the artistic roughness |