Carving Out a Career in the Design
World
1950s Style
By John L. Jacobus
Published
in Woodcarving Illustrated, Spring 2007
Many woodcarvers got their start
as a youth designing cars for the Fisher Body
Craftsman's Guild competition The Fisher
Body Craftsman's Guild (FBCG) was a corporate-sponsored
youth outreach program, which brought together
boys and young men (ages 12-20) from across America
in a combination industrial arts competition and
a General Motors' (GMC) talent search. College
scholarships were awarded to those demonstrating
the highest technical skill in constructing a
1:18 scale Miniature Model Napoleonic Coach (1930
-1947) or a scratch-built 1:12 scale model "Dream
Car," incorporating their own original styling
ideas (1937-1968).