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Clyde Daugherty began carving in the late 1980s while serving in
the military. It all began when he saw a photo in a magazine of
"the old man of the wood," a carving of an old bearded man in a
slab of tree trunk. Clyde was very impressed with the carving
and thought, "I can do that." So he found a slab of wood and
started with a pocket knife and Exacto blades to carve his own
"wood spirit."
About two weeks later Clyde had a carving that he was totaly disgusted with and thought, "I guess I can't do that." He was so dissappointed with his carving that he gave up on it before it was finished and left it on a table in his back yard. The carving then ended up on the ground and lost in the back yard. Clyde admitted defeat and realized he was not cut out to be a carver. Months later, during a visit, Clyde's mother noticed the rejected carving laying in the grass. By this time the sun had aged it to a dark gray and tiny crackes had appeared all over it. But she fell in love with it. Clyde was actually ashamed of it, but he cleaned it up and gave it to her. She liked the piece so much that she brought it home and hung it on her fireplace. This encouraged Clyde to give it another try.
And that was the beginning of Clyde's carving career. He purchased
some real carving tools and continued to develop his own "old man
of the wood." That was several thousand carvings ago. And Clyde's
mother still has his first piece hanging on her fireplace.
In 1995 Clyde began to see a new career opportunity in his carvings. He left the military and moved back to western Pennsylvannia to carve out a new career in wood. The discipline and training he learned in the military paid off immensly in his new business. For three years he spent fifty to sixty hours a week carving faces on everything from walking sticks to live trees. As a result, the quality of his carvings increased very rapidly. The many ribbons now hanging on his wall are a testimony to his abilities. In 1998 Clyde's business took a new direction. He began molding his originals and developed a way to reproduce them in stone so they are safe for outdoors in any weather. He markets his cast stone pieces at fine art and craft shows across the north east and offers them on the internet. Clyde enjoys helping other sculptors and sharing his talents with those around him. He is a past president of the Mahoning Valley Wood Carvers Club, and demonstrates his techqines to its members and other clubs in the community. He also enjoys carving trees in his community. He hopes that the many trees he has carved in the area will be a legacy for years to come. One of Clyde's goals is to make his home town of Mercer, Pennsylvannia known as "that town with all those trees carved in it." |
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