My boys (ages 12, 11, 9 & 7) all love to carve wood. We use different pocket knifes and they work great, for a set of wood carving knives we just went to Menards (store) and bought a kit. It is really nice and it’s like $15. Now it isn;t top of the line but it’s giving them real experience with using the differnent blades. As far as wood we just cut down trees on our land we have 10 acre’s. So can’t help you with that. Though you can find many sites online if you just good whittling, carving wood or something like that. Hope that helps somewhat!