[heineda]

Hello again,

Marv does not hav a web site, but I have posted below a couple of links relating to him:

http://www.cca-carvers.org/kaisersatt.html

http://www.whillock.com/

Here you can see the book cover:
http://woodcarverswarehouse.com/cata...d71b3542e5313f

Good Carving,
Dan heine

[photodog]

My first instructor had 6 of us aged 14-66yr. and we were very slow for beginners. Our teacher would not touch anything but his example and his knife. He did have the verbal skills to convey what we needed to do by making us look at what we were doing while we were doing it and follow directions, step by step.
"Give me that and I'll show you." were not in his vocabulary. Look, listen and do was his motto.
He did have something similar to the tutorial sticks. He took the covers off of golfballs ran an all thread through about a dozen or so balls and after carving the balls, used them as his examples of carving progression. He said that he liked the balls because you could change them out if you did a better one.

[Thomp]

I agree that the golfballs would be easier if you got-um, but would it be as cheap as a $1.00 practice stick of 1x1x12" basswood?, and if you messed up a section you could always segment the stick, never the less which method, If you carve a teaching stick its keeping you in practice.. and giving you the ability to pass it on to a begainer for example.

i find carving a teaching stick a really good project when your mentally blocked up from a good idea but want to carve something, ot just need to do some thinking.
nothing says the segments have to be of the same item or even same species. a hand a foot eye nose ear all on the same stick wouldnt be a problem. its all practice. or carve a totum...

i keep cast off projects for such time, i certinly keep about an eggbox of examples and half done items round here, if i need to carve a hand to see what it looks like , i pick up a cast off and carve a hand... if the hand comes right i might use it.

i am just short of calling them junk, but maybe a pecaso style may one day come in fasion and ill be ahead of the market.

[Thomp]

found a eye stick tutorial at http://www.texaswoodcarvers.com/Pages/face_study.htm
its not a new one,
but i followed the instruction today and carved one in a couple hours, sorry for lack of detail in photo its from inexpencive low quality webcam.... but the eyestick looks right in realisitc setting

[4stichesl8er]

hello everyony MERRY CHRISTMAS...
i found a place that sells some neet stuff
http://www.roughouts.com/teaching_aids.htm

[Thomp]

Its great they sell the sticks at a lower price than i seen other places,
looking at them from the web dont show enough detail to learn from, You need them in your hand to learn how to make the cuts to produce a cheek or a nose...

Although the teaching sticks are a good start i bought pete leclairs books the first 2 deal with a chip by chip method of making the caricature, his book on the head is the best i have found, although i had a little difficulty matching my tools to the ones he uses in the book, but by not teaching you measurements he makes you decide from your selection of tools v tools and gouges, this way there is not a size restriction to your learning, (a hurtle later to overcome)
i like petes method of teaching although i didnt understand it at first...

[Driver]

Are you carving the nose and chin on the corner of the block? Thank's Driver

[Thomp]

driver,
the old man taxi driver looking stick was carved nose to corner edge,

i found it easier to carve one totaly done at bottom then work the steps backwards.. this stick was 1x1x12" basswood, the heads were carved inside 1x1x1" section each

its not the only way to carve them but i elected to carve it that way so i could get the boggest face from the stick..

pete leclair carves his faces nose center of the flat side of the stock but he shapes the nose side of the block to wedge shape which incompasses nose cheeks and chin in the patterns i have seen in his first 2 books

[Thomp]

Thoughts of needing to carve some Christmas ornaments and such i decided to carve a Christmas study stick..

santa standing on a stack of toys and presents in the' Dr suse fasion" santa trying to push them all in the small sack.

its about half way done, but i thought it might be something to show as i finish it. maybe to inspire some one else to try one of a different color....

Although not normally thought of as a study stick,
its more on the aspect of a friendship cane,
but its just another way to carve a study stick as well as just making faces..


made of a 1x1x12" basswood stick of my own design but heavily influenced by other carvings here on the wci..

it follows as
santa standing on a ball the ball is on a book, the book is on a pair of inline skates which is on a package, I've carved a teddy bear laying in a li'l red wagon below that another package, then 3 train pieces, and thats where its planned to at the moment.


guess i need to carve a doll baby, falling over board.
i couldn't figure out how to incorporate a tricycle in the stack with out to much complication.
Enjoy

[D'Marie]

Recently got to spend couple of weeks with Janet Cordell, an awesome instructor! She made a wonderful "lip" stick for me for making a pretty mouth.
I learn so much more when I can glance back at what something is 'really' supposed to look like.