Learn to carve beautiful wildlife themed walking sticks with this informative and easy-to-follow book!Step-by-step projects for making artist-quality sticks, staffs, and canesHow to harvest and cure your own wood for walking sticks, including using reclaimed woodGet the best finishing results with advice on paints, stains, varnishes, acrylics, & woodburningSpecial focus on carving realistic snakes that wrap around the sticksAmazing color photo gallery of finished walking sticksReady-to-use patternsAuthor David Stehly has carved more than 2,000 walking sticks and won 30+ awards at woodcarving showsHand Carving Your Own Walking Stick includes useful information on harvesting and curing wood, plus advice on getting the best finishing results with paints, stains, varnishes, acrylics, and woodburning.Award-winning woodcarver David Stehly walks you through the entire process of making artisan-quality sticks, staffs, and canes that are as functional as they are beautiful. Step-by-step projects and ready-to-use patterns make it easy to get started in this relaxing and rewarding hobby. An inspirational color photo gallery illustrates many of the authors spectacular projects, including sticks adorned with lifelike lizards, magnificent bighorn sheep, leaping trout, and many more. A special focus is on carving realistic snakes that wrap around the sticks, all carved from a single piece of wood.Carve beautiful wildlife walking sticks with step-by-step projects, ready-to-use patterns, an inspirational color photo gallery, and advice on wood sourcing and finishing.
✔ Author(s): David Stehly
✔ Title: Hand Carving Your Own Walking Stick: An Art Form (Fox Chapel Publishing) Step-by-Step Instructions to Make Artisan-Quality Sticks, Canes, & Staffs (Staves), Including Realistic Snakes & Finishing
✔ Rating : 4.5 out of 5 base on (380 reviews)
✔ ISBN-10: 1565238974
✔ Language: English
✔ Format ebook: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, HTML and MOBI
✔ Device compatibles: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle
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