The Weekend Crafter: Woodcarving: 20 Great Projects for Beginners & Weekend Carvers. This item is unavailable.The Weekend Crafter: Woodcarving: 20 Great Projects for Beginners & Weekend Carvers

Woodcarving is fun, any way you cut it! Whether your interest lies in chip, incised, pierced, relief, sculptural or architectural carving - or if you just to whittle your weekend away - this book contains what you need to gain self-confidence in the craft. * 50 great projects for beginners and weekend carvers: - trout key chain - letter opener - scotty dog - stretching cat - love spoon - - paperweight - spirit face walking stick - inscribed plate - carved egg - * Basics and traditional carving techniques explained: - Tools - Wood - Patterns & Blanks - Selecting knives & gouges - Cutting - - Carving techniques - Sanding & Finishing - Safety - Ideas & Designs - * Beginners to the craft will find it easy to learn carving and whittling and to make great-looking pieces they will be proud to display and use and to give as gifts. * The Weekend Crafter series allows you to tackle a new craft in a weekend, with projects completed on a short time scale.

John Hillyer was a woodcarving instructor from Asheville, North Carolina, where he taught at the John C. Campbell Folk School, the Folk Art Center, and local community colleges. In addition to his popular wood carving book The Weekend Crafter ®: Woodcarving, he also cowrote The Mountains-to-Sea Trail: Western North Carolina’s Majestic Rival to the Appalachian Trail. He died in 2007 at the age of 81.