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Whittling and woodworking are both extremely rewarding hobbies - depending on how much space you have.
Whittling seemed like something I could do indoors more easily without too much mess. We have a furnace and a giant woodpile so you'd think it'd be perfect, problem is when I try to carve something it's too seasoned* to do much more than carve the bark off. Probably doesn't help that I'm using a gas station knife, but it's probably the wood itself being most of the issue.
I usually had luck with the rotary tool (probably because I usually don't need to get rid of too much material), but once I tried to use the angle grinder with a cheap toothy power-carving disk on a small-ish log and I could barely put a small bevel on it.
*= Requested for carving even, not just something I picked out.