The Modern Book of Whittling and Woodcarving
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Estados Unidos de América
: McGraw-Hill Book Company
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Table of Contents:
- By wayay of Introduction.
- Grooves Can Be Carving Enough Silhouette Identifies the Figure.
- Laminated Silhouettes: Simple but effective.
- More Silhouettes: Lapel Pins, Charms, Pendants.
- Portable, Paintable Farm Barn: Simple Animals Provide 50 Toys in One.
- Low Relief for 3-D Effects: Men, Animals, Spoons, Batons, a Mobile.
- More 3-D Effects with Low-Relief Carving: Calabashes and the Magi Candlesticks.
- Curls and Fans: Tricks with Wet Wood.
- Whittled Footwear: Sandals, Sabots, Clogs, Klompen, Geta, Zori.
- Dynamic Wooden Toys, Mostly Slavic: Articulated Pine Assemblies.
- More Carved Wooden Toys: Seven Classics from Bogorodsk.
- Basics in Carving Animals: Elephants and Deer Provide Practice.
- Surface Texture: What It Can Do to Help.
- More Animals to Carve: Five Pages of Ideas and Patterns.
- My Kingdom for a Horse: How to Carve Equines.
- Mobile of Bali Birds: Assembly of Eight Ebony Fliers.
- Basics in Carving Birds: Realistic, Stylized, Caricatures, Details.
- An Ark for Noah
- Basic Design.
- Noah's Legendary Ark: A Tradition in Many Lands.
- Miniatures and Models: Weapons, Trains, People, Animals.
- Articulated Caricatures: How to Get Movement into a Figure.
- Masks for Wear or Decoration: Fun with Faces Is Good Practice.
- Gadgetry: Bellows, Nutcrackers, Cord Pull.
- Skipper Sam'l: A Quaint Whittled Figure.
- Hobo Hank: Mostly Nostalgia.
- Mére Marthe: Swiss Peasant Woman.
- Gaspard the Sailor: A Breton Figure.
- A Sampler of Caricatures: Some Forms and Techniques.
- A Study in Contrasts: Eight Figures for Comparison.
- Latin American Indians: Some Self-portraits.
- From Scandinavia: Farm People, Fishermen, Lapps, Trolls.
- Caricatures Should Be Fun: For Both Carver and Subject.
- Realistic, Cartoon, Caricature?: More Comparisons.
- The Professional Touch: Proved Examples by Skilled Sculptors.
- The Human Head and...: RelatedBody Proportions.
- Tradition Shapes These Figures: Some Are Almost Symbolic.
- How to Carve a Nativity Scene: Créche, Krippe, Nacimiento.
- The Angels Sing-and Play: Three Types and Three Scenes.
- The "Exaggerated Realism" of Emil Janel: An Album of Figure Ideas.
- How to Carve in Low Relief: Design Techniques, Procedures.
- Mahogany (in part) Rocking Horse: Panoply Saves Wood.
- Antique Breadboard: Maple or Walnut, Prayer or Word.
- Fun with a Coat of Arms: Plaque, Mailbox, Statuette.
- Humpty-Dumpty Rocker: A Fairy Tale in Wood.
- Carved Fist: A Novel Knocker.
- Pre-Columbian Trim Motifs: Trophy-room Furniture in Low Relief.
- Pierced or Openwork Carving: Relief-with No Background.
- Appliqués and Assembies: A Background Can Emphasize.
- Improvisations: You Carve What You See.
- More Improvisations: The "Bug Tree".
- A Start for Polyglot Carving.
- Polyglot or Montage Carving: Panels, Compound Curves, In-the-round.
- The Ecology Door: A Case in Point.
- A Montage of Monsters: Diptych in Polyglot Design.
- Carving Plastic Foam: Wave-edged Blades and Saws Do It.
- Eskimo Carving: Soapstone, Ivory, Bone-and Wood.
- Elaborate Carving in a Soupbone.
- Bones, Stones, and Shells: You Can Carve Them All.
- Carved Ivories: Many Materials, One Problem.
- Observations: Remarks from Your "Friends". Tangents-Thoughts and Comments.
- Checking and Cracking: What to Do-If Anything.
- Repairing Broken Carvings: Solving Some of the Problems.
- Carving Tools and Accesories: From Knife to Riffler File.
- How to Sharpen Tools: Essential for Good Carving.
- Woods-Kinds and Characterisitics: How to Select Them.
- Finishing and Finishes: Sanding, Filling, Polishing.
- Index