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
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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
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 canes
- How to harvest and cure your own wood for walking sticks, including using reclaimed wood
- Get the best finishing results with advice on paints, stains, varnishes, acrylics, & woodburning
- Special focus on carving realistic snakes that wrap around the sticks
- Amazing color photo gallery of finished walking sticks
- Ready-to-use patterns
- Author David Stehly has carved more than 2,000 walking sticks and won 30+ awards at woodcarving shows
Hand 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.
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