Whittling Country Folk, Revised Edition: 12 Caricature Projects with Personality (Fox Chapel Publishing) Step-by-Step Instructions for Carving, Painting, and Staining, with Front, Back, & Side Views - Softcover

Mike Shipley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565238397 ISBN 13: 9781565238398

Publisher: Fox Chapel, 2014

Synopsis

Professional caricature carver Mike Shipley introduces you to a whole clan of colourful characters from his native Ozarks. Whether you're a beginner just learning to whittle, or an old hand looking for some new ideas, this book delivers plenty of fun, inspiration, and satisfaction. More than 100 step by step colour photographs guide you through whittling, painting, and staining. You'll learn Mike's quick and easy 'clean cut' method, plus his original formula for mixing your own wood stain in a blender. All twelve projects feature distinctive patterns with easy to follow cut lines. Whittling Country Folk, Revised Edition also provides valuable 'Getting Started' advice on tools, sharpening, wood, and safety, as well as humorous tales about each friendly country character

About this title

About the Author:

Mike Shipley is a full-time professional woodcarver and teacher with more than 30 years of carving experience. A self-taught carver, he is well known for his distinctive clean cut style of carving and for his santa figurines. Mike is a production carver, creating 120 carvings each month, entirely by hand and finished with his own homemade stain. His carvings are sold at woodcraft shows, online and from his studio in the Ozark Mountains. Mike has been featured in Wood Carving Illustrated magazine. Carving Country Folk is Mike Shipley's fifth book. Other titles include Whittling the Old Sea Captain and Woodcarving the Country Bear. Mike Shipley lives in Dora, Missouri.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fox Chapel
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1565238397
• ISBN 13: 9781565238398
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88