Hello!

Mark N. Akers · #11 09-09-2007, 08:37 PM

Bob:
Welcome to the site,hope you enjoy it here.

bwegesin · #12 09-10-2007, 12:22 AM

Well, people, here goes my attempt to get some pics online. Remember... I'm a beginner, so "be gentle!" LOL!

bwegesin · #13 09-10-2007, 12:24 AM

And one for the 'old school'.... He's not finished, but you can see where he's headed, altho his feet can't!

Tom H · #14 09-10-2007, 08:54 AM

Bob, Pretty good carvings there. I especially like the stylized huntin dog. Haven't seen many carved in the stylized manner, and yours is real nice...Thanks for sharing, and keep on doin it. Tom H

bwegesin · #15 09-28-2007, 02:27 PM

I am trying to replace two specific paperback carving books which I had owned (prior to moving to a new house....). I can no longer find either of these two books..

They were, to the best of my knowledge:

BOTH designed for the 'whittler or woodcarver' working with knives and/or mallet & gouges. (They did not mention powercarving 'way back in the 80's' when I bought the books.)

One book has on the cover a picture of a woodcarving of "the woodcarver carving himself free from the wood," (NOT a picture of the actual carver, just the carving itself!!)
He is about halfway out of the wood.. i.e. ... the upper torso is there, carving away at the wood, to 'release' the rest of his body from the wood.
The book, as I recall, was NOT a 'full size" (8" X 11") paperback, but a shorter, narrower one, but was thicker than most carving paperback books.

ly, I cannot recall either the title or author of the book. You may guess, quite correctly, then, that have no clue regarding the ISBN!

The other one is about 'carving wildlife', although I am not sure that is the actual title (but it MAY be the title, as it's what I 'think' it was called). I do not recall the author of this book, either.
It has photos of wildlife carvings on both the front and back covers, as I recall.
The critical pattern, for my current purposes, is of a fawn curled up sleeping on top of a stump. (I'm pretty certain that the carving of the fawn was on the BACK cover)
(I have a PERFECT stump for it, and want to use the pattern as a guide -- don't trust myself yet without a decent pattern to use...)
There are several other patterns in the book, as well, all of wildlife of course.
This book WAS the 'standard size' (about 8" X 11") and thickness for a woodcarving paperback book.

I wish I could remember the names and authors but, for the life of me, I can't recall them. I do know that these were WOODCARVING Paperback BOOKS, not magazines or pamphlets. They are specific to woodcarving, as opposed to scrollsawing, pyrography, intarsia, etc.... They were addressing the use of knives and gouges as the tools for the projects, NOT Chainsaws, Foredoms, Reciprocating Tools etc...

Can anyone help me find the books, or at least the titles and authors of them??

Thanks!

slather · #16 09-30-2007, 11:18 PM

Welcome to the site Bob , just now read your post and enjoyed your style of carvings, as for the books, I have one here that has a fawn with his mother curlded up on a stump on the front and back covers, its called , MAMMALS : AN ARTISTIC APPROACH by Desiree Hajny from Fox chapel publishing...
Hope that helps..

Al

http://picasaweb.google.com/al.hillis/WOODCARVINGSMINE

bwegesin · #17 10-01-2007, 12:30 AM

Al,

Thanks for the reply. I've checked out that book by Desiree Hajny, but it is not the specific one I'm looking for. (It may be the one I end up working from, if the one I'm trying to find is no longer available or I simply can't connect the name, author and my memory all together..... )

Bob

Grizz · #18 10-01-2007, 01:12 AM

Nice to see that you have returned to the great art of wood sculptures.I have been in it fo a long time hand carving and now chain saw and going for surgery soon I hope and will be back to hand carving for a couple months.

After reading your post it just made me think.I have carved in a number of events and to my surprise have never seen anyone wearing a mask.

I am sure with your problems you know it first hand.

We all have to take the safety precautions as much as we can.

I have even seen some not even wearing chap's with chain saw running.UM nice to be a cool dude but not nice to loose a part of the body.

There is probably many post here about safety but just had to mention this very important part of the art of wood carving.

Be safe stay healthy and carve .

This may be the wrong place for this post if it is I appologise.

Here ia a polar bear I did.

http://www.carvetillidie.ca/forums/a...5&d=1188258998

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