This National Book Award finalist introduces 12-year-old Rob Horton, who encounters a real tiger in the misty Florida woods. That same day, he meets Sistine Bailey, a girl who shows her feelings as readily as Rob hides his. As they learn to trust each other and be friends, Rob and Sistine prove that some things can't be locked up forever.
With a friendly, down-home style, this guide encourages readers to whittle away the hours. Great for beginners looking for an easy way to get started and more advanced carvers looking for a relaxing way to spend their time, this instructional manual provides 20 projects, including knives, forks, birds, animals, trees, and flowers. Chapters detail ...
In the popular and specialised field of making gunstocks look better, feel better, and grip better, this look at how it's done covers virtually every basic pattern, tool and method. This is a book that is meant to be used. It doesn't waste time on fancy words and with impossible art. To have Checkering and Carving of Gunstocks at your side is to ...
This exhaustive reference of dragon designs details how to make realistic dragons based on mythological models. More than 72 patterns cover the range of historical and contemporary dragons, from worms to the shape-changing Drake, and can be used in a variety of mediums. A comprehensive look at the dragon's skeletal structure, scales, and head ...
Practical informative book by noted sculptor covers woods, tools, equipment, finishing, preservation, more. Especially valuable "dictionary of woods." Over 70 photos and drawings. Glossary. Bibliography.
With 50 years of experience behind him, E.J. Tangerman, famous dean of master woodcarvers, has taken the finest projects from nine volumes of his work to create an all-encompassing guide for the woodcarver. A how-to-book from start to finish, the compendium begins with tools and wood selection and continues with hundreds of projects and designs of ...
A good illustration is worth a thousand wood chips! Here at last is a woodcarving book that lays the projects out chip-by-chip, with drawing-after-drawing to teach the craft in the most accurate way possible. With this book beginners don't have to guess how to position the knife or where to chip away. Clearly, explicitly, taking an many ...
Nationally famous teacher and craftsman Charles Marshall Sayers carefully guides the reader through the fundamentals of wood carving. Beginning with tools and materials and how to use them, the book covers incised, relief, and other carving methods--and provides 34 illustrated designs for over 34 projects for the student to create while learning.
An introduction to the fundamentals of wood carving discusses the use of patterns and the basic tools and provides guidance in the carving of an assortment of animals and human figures.
Whether you're a woodworker expanding your talents, a seasoned carver refining your skills, or a beginner newly introduced to this fulfilling craft, this is the only carving book you need. Brimming with expert instruction and nine attractive projects, you'll learn all the classic carving styles and techniques along with the fundamentals of wood ...
A selection of designs for carving, painting or pyrography, this is a book orientated towards the more traditional styles of woodworking and decoration. It includes hints on pattern-making and templates that can be enlarged, as necessary, on a photocopier.
A well-illustrated guidebook that includes the history of totem-pole carving and its West Coast native tradition, and instructions and ideas on how to design and carve a totem-pole as either a traditional design or in a personal folk-art motif.
This book aims to provide beginners and inexperienced wood carvers with a sound grasp of the techniques of traditional decorative relief carving. The reader is first introduced to the basics of selecting tools and materials; then follows a series of carefully graded projects which build up the carver's skills in a methodical way. Finally, various ...
Discover the fun and satisfaction of woodcarving. Step-by-step photos and clearly written instructions guide you through a variety of delightful carving projects, including a classic wildfowl decoy, folk carvings, a cardinal, dancing bears, St. Nicklaus, a tobacconist's Indian, and a chip-carved quilt rack. Chapters on tool selection and ...
Chip carving offers so many choices - and the range of patterns here provides carvers with experience in many styles, including lettering, signs, geometrics designs, positive-image and free-form work. The projects feature more than 125 different ornamental plates, boxes, wall plaques, cabinets, chair backs, house numbers, lamp bases, lap desks and ...
Carving is an area of woodworking that has wide appeal and can start as simply as whittling figures with a pocket knife. Since the cost of entry is so low, many people are willing to give it a try. But some people are put off by the conflicting information about what tools to buy, how to sharpen them and by the bewildering range of carving styles. ...
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