Woodcrafting is the art of using handheld and power tools to create and assemble items — like furniture, cabinetry and jewelry boxes — from pieces of wood. A wide variety of finishes may be selected from to ensure pieces are long lasting.

Woodturning is the craft of using the wood lathe with hand-held tools to cut a shape that is symmetrical around an axis of rotation. Like the potter’s wheel, the wood lathe is a simple mechanism which can generate a variety of forms limited only by the imagination of the artist or craftsperson.

Wood carving is a form of woodworking using a cutting tool like a knife, a chisel and mallet or a power unit like a rotary tool, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculptural ornamentation of a wooden object.

Pyrography is the free handed art of decorating wood or other materials with burn marks resulting from the controlled application of a heated object such as a poker. It is also known as wood burning. The term means "writing with fire."