[Thomp]

seeing this is the closest topical place or proper place for book questions got one on
Pig Pickin: Country Carving by tom wolfe.

it is not a fox book, but this seamed the right place for topic.

i got a question on this book as to how many different patterns are in it,
i dont want to buy another book that specifically deals with only one or 2 items like this... i can see the reason for the step by step carving for them who are needing that much instruction,

but like country carving where there selling point was country carving there was 3 patterns,, '

i spend my dollars and took the chance, i dont want to do that again,
anybody own this book?

[wood-whittler]

thomp,

i have it and it is just the pig pickin scene has the hillbilly the pig and a dog witha few other add ons, good book but doesnt have anything other than the main scene.


bart

[Thomp]

thanks Bart for the reply,

dang it,
I posted to late i guess, should checked back sooner or have posted last night.
i was on amazon already when i tabbed over and made this post.

situation was: my wife got a 10 buck off card and it was burning a hole in my pocket..i guess.

i was on books amazon.com reading the customer feedback on the books that interested me, but nothing on pig picking,,,

but to qualify for free shipping and to use the card i had to buy 25 bucks worth to get the discount, pig picking was 15 and change also got Tom Wolfe goes to the dogs $12- and change $28-total. ,
I qualified for free shipping, so got both with shipping for $18 and change.. for 2 new books...

heck it beat the price on used books on eBay.

i got country carving and 90 patterns for dogs as well as carving out the wild west all these books are tom Wolfe and acquired them recently
found out i got a knack for carving dogs now that i got an idea of what they look like,,, HA!

so for Christmas my hunting buddy brother-in-laws will get hunting scenes...I'm sure them sister - in-laws will find me something to carve for them too,,,
thanks again

[Robert Cahill]

Thomp
Does he have his dogs in different positions such as running ,growling or are they just standing like at a dog show.
I found a few caricatures I did years ago .I think they were Bill Higgonsbough patterns. Anyway they are terrible but I think I can redo them one is a hobo running with a chicken on his back and another is a guy slapping his knee laughing. I thought perhaps when I redid them having a dog chasing the hobo would fit in for a scene.

[Thomp]

Robert,

Tom Wolfe has lots of decent dog patterns, in the 90 patterns for dogs book for the most part there are some pretty bad hounds if your looking for realistic poses, all are one side view outlines im not gifted enough to see how to use all them,( i was hoping for hounds raised up on a tree,)

but they afford good outlines for patterns and dose spark your imagination, about other situations dogs could be used in.

like your mention of running off a hobo , there my choice would be a terrier or fiste, but most dogs in the book are static posed.
lot of show dogs, so lot of folks might find there favorite breed

on the hound patterns
i cut out several of the same and segment jointed them like lynns manikin so there milti pose.. only not as perminate..
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my 2 last purchased books shipped yesterday so ill see what turns up. just hope its not 26 days like bburybooks..

i can only hope its the hobo chicken in one of them, would love to do a good hobo pattern...

[Robert Cahill]

Thomp,
Thanks for the reply, I think I will see if I can get it through inter-library loan first.Then if I like it I will purchase it. Often a book looks good but once I get it there is only one pattern I want. Like many other retirees I have to be thrifty.
I am not 100% certain but I think Bill Higginbotham book Humorous country characters is the one the hobo came in. I have no idea what I did to have it start using a different font.

[Thomp]

Robert,

today the shipping fairy turned loose my shipment of the 2 new books, if i would have packed something like they did, it would have cost's $18.00 for shipping, 'shrink wrapped in a box locked in so it didn't move at all'.... a great job...

tom wolf goes to the dogs and pig picking, books both are step by step, how to do books, with hundreds of images on the step by steps, that
anybody who knows which end of a knife is sharpened could follow,

togetherboth books contain less than ten individual patterns several dogs a man and hog, moonshine jug and the butchering knife, and a rifle.

pig picking A step by step on each item that depicts a man cleaning a hog, in the step of just before skinning, (see cover photo) and photos are mostly black and white dank washed photos contrasted photos, and in some there very hard to see the detail of the step except where tom is showing the painting of items.

tom wolf goes to the dogs is a step by step on one dog setting,
on the other hand its full of nice color photos, at just a glance it has only 4 patterns setting laying walking and running all are right and left 2 side view patterns each. except the laying dog is top view only,

in the back there is a multi position gallery photos of 9 or 10 finished dogs of 3 pages of his carved dogs, and 2 pages of study models 12 photos you can work on from finished photos..

[Robert Cahill]

Thomp,
Thanks for the review I will try and get them through inter-library loan first. Years ago a friend raised pigs and at least three times a year we would butcher. It was a fun time with all families having a get together and a feast of beans home made Chile and the works. No one seems to do it anymore I am not sure if I want to carve yesteryear or not but it sound interesting