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20 Folk Bird and Fish Patterns by Al Streetman
Al Streetman takes devoted readers and beginning carvers alike back to the wonderful world of folk carving, which leaves less to "the rules" and more to the imagination! In older days, folk art was a way of transforming plain everyday objects and materials into decorative accent pieces to brighten the home.
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20 Pencil People Patterns for Carvers by Al Streetman
Veteran carver and instructor Al Streetman cleaned up his shop and came up with yet another hot book, this one presenting a thin cast of characters carved from leftover wood scraps. Streetman takes novice and advanced carvers alike through a step-by-step process of carving and painting these unique creations made from piles of narrow leftovers.
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29 Cowboy Patterns for Carvers by Al Streetman
Even in this modern age cowboys and the "Old West" still capture our hearts and imaginations. This book is written in response to many phone calls and letters after Al's earlier book, 25 Gunfighter Patterns, requesting more cowboy patterns. Whether you have been carving cowboys for a long time or want to for the first time, this book is for you. Here are 29 patterns for great cowboys, plus added ideas for settings. With Al Streetman's helpful advice, this book can be used by greenhorns and saddle-worn carvers alike.
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Art of Chainsaw Carving: An Insider's Look at 18 Artists Working against the Grain by Jessie Groeschen
Meet the World’s Most Unique Sculptors Learn more about the fascinating people who practice an art form that combines beauty and danger. Noted chainsaw sculptor Jessie Groeschen introduces you to the leading chainsaw artists practicing today, and provides an overview of the art form—recounting the advent and growth of chainsaw carving in the United States. Finally, try your hand at chainsaw carving with a how-to chapter on chainsaw carving a chair, with step-by-step instructions and a full color photo gallery of finished chairs.
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Carving Cigar Humidors with Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe brings together two of his great loves in this new book: the love of wood carving and the love of a good cigar. While there is much ado about cigars today, Tom has been an aficionado for many years. Now he brings his carving skill to that all important piece of equipment for the serious cigar smoker, the humidor. From a caricature Texas Troubadour Humidor to a simply elegant decoy humidor, Tom opens a new range of carving for both novice and experienced carvers. The results are useful objects that catch the eye and the imagination. They will look good on the mantel, and even better on the carver's table at the local carving show. An amply illustrated gallery and many patterns make this book a vital addition to your carving book collection.
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Carving Comic Clocks by Larry Green & Mike Altman
Carving Comic Clocks by Larry Green & Mike Altman. Time will fly when you open the pages of Carving Comic Clocks. In fact, you'll find yourself whitt-ling away the hours carving Larry and Mike's whimsical creations. The book features 10 clock patterns carved in the relief style from 3/4" wood. Larry's step-by-step instructions illustrated with full-color photos will lead you through carving a delightful Dancing Clock, a noble Wood Spirit Clock, and a humorous Wood Worker Clock. Other patterns include a Sir Night Clock, a "Nice" Clock, a Cholesterol Alarm Clock, A Mantle Clock, Mr. Sunshine Clock, a Santa Clock, and a Grandfather Clock. The Wood Worker clock placed first in the most humorous clock category in the 1994 Klockkit, "Create a Clock" contest. A pictorial gallery is included.
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Carving Pins by Mary Finn
Wooden pins make wonderful handmade gifts and can be carved in a minimum of space with small equipment. Here, accomplished woodcarver and teacher Mary Finn guides readers through the creation of five colorful designs: a sunflower, cardinal, bunny, Santa, and rose. Mary suggests ideas for developing pin designs as well as methods for creating blanks that can be used many times. Step-by-step instructions and color photography present the process of carving the blank, adding texture and other details, painting, finishing, and attaching a pin to the back. Whether you want a dainty pin for your best friend, a funky pin for your little sister, or a bolo for your favorite uncle, this book will provide the tips and techniques for creating just the right look.
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Carving Signs: The Woodworker's Guide to Carving, Lettering, and Gilding by Greg Krockta
Whether carving signs for personal use or starting a business carving signs for other people, this book is filled with the information professional and hobbyist woodworkers need to get started making wooden signs. It includes tips on which woods work best for outdoor signs, indoor signs, and boat signs, as well as design tips on finishing signs and sign shapes. In addition, techniques for embellishing signs are provided, including hand-carving letters and numbers, carving appliques and relief carvings, and gold leafing.
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Celtic Carved Lovespoons: 30 Patterns by Sharon Littley
Celtic Carved Lovespoons by Sharon Littley and Clive Griffin. Inside you'll find a comprehensive guide to lovespoon symbols, step-by-step instructions on spoon carving, a portfolio of lovespoon patterns, and tips and techniques on incorporating traditional symbols into your carvings. Include 30 patterns.
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Complete Book of Gourd Carving by Jim Widess
Jim Widess and Ginger Summit, the best-selling authors of The Complete Book of Gourd Craft and Making Gourd Instruments, produce another winner to delight the many gourd crafters. Large, lavish, and astonishingly comprehensive, this breathtaking volume introduces every tool and technique, offers fabulous projects that advance in difficulty, and presents a gallery of works designed to inspire. See how to choose and prepare a gourd, impress the surface with a design, and work with green gourds. The magnificent methods of decorative carving covered include fretwork, engraving, chip carving, carving with gouges, relief carving, inlay, and deep relief or sculptural carving. Throughout, color photographs of exquisite carved gourds present crafts styles from countries around the world.
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Complete Book of Woodcarving: Everything You Need to Know to Master the Craft by Everett Ellenwood
From making the first cut to applying the finish, this comprehensive reference details every aspect of woodcarving. All the essentials are covered for beginning woodworkers, such as how to choose appropriate woods; how to set up a wood shop; how to select, use, and sharpen tools; and how to perform fundamental techniques, such as the push cut, pull cut, stop cut, and slicing cut. General carving styles, from classical to whimsical to rustic, are also covered, as are the basic steps of power carving. Eight projects designed to help newer woodworkers build proficiency and a handy resource section round out this fully illustrated, must-have resource for woodcarvers.
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Complete Guide To Architectural Carving by Kurt Koch
Complete Guide To Architectural Carving by Kurt Koch. If you are looking to add architectural elements to fireplace mantles, archways, seat backs or any other item-you will not find a more comprehensive collection of patterns! From the simple to the ornate, this collection from Master carver, Kurt Koch, provides 63 designs that can easily be transferred to wood.
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Easy Woodcarving: Simple Techniques for Carving and Painting Wood by Cyndi Joslyn
Simple Techniques for Carving & Painting Wood. With hundreds of color photos and easy-to-use patterns, Easy Woodcarving is the step-by-step guide for beginner carvers. No previous carving knowledge is needed. Anyone can learn the basics of carving with the easy-to-follow skill-building exercises, clearly defined terms, and the informative chapter on choosing tools and selecting wood. New carvers will discover just how "easy" this craft can be!
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Folk Carving with Shane Campbell
In this wonderful folk carving book, Shane Campbell takes you step-by-step through the process of carving two attractive wooden figures. The first is an articulated angel named Ruby and the second is a whirligig figure named Angelene. Project patterns and over 260 color photographs accompany the straightforward directions. Shane also provides instructions for both painting folk figures and for aging them using a method that is delightfully simple and effective. A color gallery rounds out the book and provides examples of additional folk figures sure to provide every reader with new ideas. This book has something to offer everyone from the beginner to the most advanced wood carver.
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Great Book of Celtic Patterns by Lora Irish
Now wood burners, carvers, scrollers, and artists can adorn their finished work with custom Celtic designs. With more than 200 original patterns and clear, expert instruction, this book unravels the secret to creating Celtic knot work and its beautiful twists, braids and textures. More than a pattern book, artists of all skill levels, working in any medium, can learn how to create their very own stunning Celtic art.
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Great Book of Fairy Patterns: The Ultimate Design Sourcebook for Artists and Craftspeople by Lora S. Irish
The history, mythology, and composition of angels, cherubs, fairies, pixies, and sprites are detailed in this handbook of fairy patterns. More than 72 fairy patterns for all mediums are featured, including dragonfly, sugar plum, and woodland fairies.
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How-to Book of Birdhouses and Feeders: Attract the Birds You Want with 30 Easy-to-Make, Clever and Sturdy Projects by Paul Meisel
Bird lovers and woodworkers alike will enjoy the results from the projects in the How-To Book of Birdhouses and Feeders. You'll find 30 fascinating-and often humorous-projects that will help attract many popular species of birds to your home. Inside, you'll find: - Helpful guidance on squirrel control, bird seed and more. - The proper dimensions and alignments of holes and perches to ensure that the right birds are attracted to your yard-something that many similar books do not cover - A full-color illustrated chart of hole sizes as a handy reference - Unique designs for 16 birdhouses and 14 birdfeeders that range from classic to fun, straightforward to comical More than just a simple how-to book, the How-To Book of Birdhouses and Feeders is a comprehensive reference guide to help you attract the birds you want to your yard and create backyard conversation pieces that are easy, clever and sturdy. Woodworkers of all skill levels will be able to find a project that they can complete using common woodworking tools found in most home workshops.
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Lelooska: The Traditional Art of the Mask, Carving a Transformation Mask by Lelooska
This is rare look into the traditional ways of creating the beautiful masks that have brought such admiration to the native American carvers of the Pacific Northwest. The masks of the Kwakiutl people of the Pacific Northwest are noted around the world for their bold colorful designs. Used for dramatic recreations of the ancestors' adventures, they carry a depth of social, historical, and religious meaning. Lelooska has spent a lifetime creating these masks, a privilege bestowed upon him by the Kwakiutl. He has recreated many of the ceremonial masks which were lost or destroyed when the potlach was, for a time, outlawed. His masks are used in the traditional dances both at the revived gatherings and at recreations of the dances presented by the Lelooska Foundation in Ariel, Washington. Now he shares the traditional carving techniques with carvers everywhere. The Kwakiutl carvers are known particular for their transformation or opening masks, which change or open to reveal a second, inner mask. The mask carved in this new book is just such a mask, beautiful in its design and its complexity. Each step is illustrated and described to help the carver recreate the mask on his or her own. This is a unique and much awaited book by one of America's foremost artists.
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Make Your Own Model Dinosaurs by Danny Downs
Make Your Own Model Dinosaurs by Danny A Downs with Tom Knight. You will find patterns and insturctions for cutting and assembling 7 different dinosaur projects.
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Making Wooden Boxes with Dale Power
This book presents the reader with a variety of box making techniques, illustrating every step taken with over 260 color photographs. The projects range from the simple to the complex. The techniques necessary for creating simple band saw boxes are discussed first. The projects become more complex as the book continues, exploring several different joints available to box makers, including mitered corners, rabbet, spline, and false spline joints. Instructions for successfully cutting loose lids and hinging them are also provided. Following the discussion of box assembly, Dale guides the reader through several different finishes available to make your own boxes stand out among the rest. Finally, a gallery with many different box types is provided to fire the imagination of every wood worker. The novice will find this book challenging, but rewarding, and the seasoned wood worker will enjoy the details.
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MHCrafters Easy Woodcarving Kit - Includes wood, tools, safety gear, and the book: Easy Woodcarving by Cyndi Joslyn
MHCrafters Easy Woodcarving Kit - Includes wood, tools, safety gear, and the book: Easy Woodcarving by Cyndi Joslyn. Includes the simple to follow and instructional book (Easy Woodcarving: Simple Techniques for Carving and Painting Wood by Cyndi Joslyn), a palm tool gouge, bench knife, thumb and finger guards, two easy-to-carve basswood blocks, measuring 2 x 2 x 12 inches. Everything you need to get started with your carving hobby. Joslyn's book illustrates many other tools and products also available through MHCrafters to continue expanding your tool collection as you perfect your skills. This is a great book for beginners, but also a fun set for professional carvers. Makes a great gift! Enjoy this value saving package exclusively through MHCrafters. See details for more...
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Practical Woodcarving by James E. Seitz
If you're a woodcarver seeking inspiration for that next carving project, look no further! This book is full of ideas for designing and creating a myriad of unique and hand-made projects, all of which can be used in and around the house or given as gifts. A total of 155 different projects are illustrated, including desk accessories, boxes and cabinets, tableware, coin banks, walking sticks, and name-plates. Appropriate for experts as well as new carvers, the book covers important principles in design and decoration. The text is presented in easy-to-follow language and supplemented with over 200 photographs and 70 drawn patterns. The book also illustrates different methods and styles of carving as applied to the items shown. Written by an experienced woodcarver, designer, and author, this comprehensive book provides a wealth of information for all who want to use and enjoy their carving projects.
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Relief Carving Wood Spirits: A Step-by-Step Guide for Releasing Faces in Wood by Lora S. Irish
From transferring the carving pattern to preparing the wood and evaluating the various levels of depth, every cut of the carving process is carefully illustrated and explained in this beginner’s guide. Carvers will learn which tools are best for which cuts and why; how to create realistic eyes, noses, and other facial features; and how to add texture to their projects. Ten additional projects await once the first whimsical tree spirit is completed, each of which includes three styles of patterns: an outline for cutting the basic shape, a depth pattern indicating the levels of relief, and a shaded pattern indicating texture and shadow.
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Scrimshaw A Complete Illustrated Manual by Steve Paskiewicz
This manual details the antique craft of scrimshaw, engraving done on ivory or ivory substitutes. Step-by-step instructions include how-to techniques that will teach readers to select tools, add color to designs, transfer patterns, and select ivory substitutes. A pattern section and a list of resources for tools and materials provide helpful information for both beginners and experienced scrimshanders.
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Scrimshaw: A Complete Illustrated Manual by Paszkiewicz & Schroeder
Create your own authentic Scrimshaw art. 2nd Edition includes expanded gallery section featuring eight different scrimshaw artists.
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Sculpting Traditional Bowls by Rip Mann
Handhewn bowls are one of the oldest crafts known to humanity, but one which has been almost lost. This new book will help reduce the trend and revive interest by introducing the carver and woodworker to exciting new possibilities. Using only hand tools, the bowl adze, a bowl shave and a carver's hook, Rip and Tammi lead the carver or sculptor through the steps of this satisfying art. They begin with a blank and conclude with an oil finish process that makes the bowls beautiful and perfectly safe for use with food. Each step is illustrated in color, with a complete description of design and technique concerns. Both the beginner and the experienced woodworker will enjoy the creation of these functional, beautiful pieces.
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Sculpting Wood: Contemporary Tools and Techniques by Mark Lindquist
Learn how to use both traditional and nontraditional tools and techniques. Step-by-step projects for sculptures, decorative pieces, chairs, bowls, and more. "It's a beauty...an inspiration...expect to return to time and again."--Popular Woodworking.
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Sculpture in Wood by Jack C. Rich
Down-to-earth, practical book by noted sculptor covers everything you need to know-woods, tools, equipment, carving techniques, finishing, preservation, etc. Especially valuable dictionary of woods covers geographical distribution, physical properties, carving characteristics, more. Over 70 photos and drawings illustrate methods and techniques, works by Brancusi, Henry Moore, Leonard Baskin, other artists. Glossary. Bibliography.
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The Book of Signs by Rudolf Koch
Famed German type designer renders 493 symbols: religious, alchemical, imperial, runes, property marks, etc. Timeless.
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The Wood Stash Project Book by Kerry Pierce
All woodworkers have a pile of wood scraps lying about, but aren't sure how to put it to use. Kerry Pierce helps them work with this perfectly good material in fun and creative ways. In 18 projects, Pierce shows woodworkers how to turn their leftovers into great gifts using carving, turning and hand-tooling techniques. Step-by-step photos and instructions are included with each project. Save 50% OFF
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