Flexcut Ambassadors
Meet the experts
Alec LaCasse
I started wood carving at the age of 12 when gifted a carving set by my mother. I sat on an Adirondack chair at my front porch whittling a boot from an instructional booklet and didn't so much as look up from my project for 3 1/2 hours. I was hooked. Soon after I met an old carousel horse carver who gifted me some Ian Norbury books and expressed that faces "were amongst the most difficult forms to master!" I took his words as a challenge and soon fell in love with carving the human face. I have since traveled all over the country teaching carving and now teach via my online school called "Fundamentals of Woodcarving."
Artist Details
Location: Oakland Twp, MI
Number of years carving: 18
Specialty or Style: Faces
Favorite Flexcut Tools: Mallet Tools & Knives
Special Recognition
I am the recent author of a book called Carving Faces in wood (Fox Chapel), as well as a regular contributing writer for Woodcarving Illustrated. I have won multiple international awards including the latest in 2023 - "1st in human figure" at the IWC and have taught workshops all over the country including the International Woodcarvers Congress and the Ozarks Woodcarving Seminar.
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