Every frame member and strut in the old ships was individually carved from a specially selected timber or billet.

Marble pinakes were individually carved, but terracotta ones were impressed in molds, and bronze ones might be repeatedly cast from a model from which wax and resin impressions were made, in the technique called lost wax casting.

For a multi-colour pattern, each colour element is carved as a separate block and individually inked and applied.

The Hungarian Laszlo Kovacs' series of pieces on Hungary in the 11th century are individually carved from marble, an unlikely material for medallic art.

A typical Puppetoon required 9,000 individually carved and machined wooden figures or parts.

The flow sculptures are still capable of demonstrating innovation in art and most are individually carved, in styles that are characteristic of the individual artists.

Small pieces were individually carved in Egypt; they were taken to Hove and assembled in six hours by a team of volunteers in time for the Easter celebrations at the end of April (in Eastern Christianity, Easter is celebrated according to a different calendar calculation than in Western Christianity).

The 19th century printer and typefounder Fournier Le Jeune suggested that Gutenberg might not have been using type cast with a reusable matrix, but possibly wooden types that were carved individually.

It was pointed out that this made the idea of an itinerant craftsman carrying durable models for each brooch pair a nonsense; the further possibility that each mould was individually carved was not entertained.