Carving Found Wood, Updated & Expanded Edition - Hood, Vic; Williams, Jack
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Carving Found Wood, Updated & Expanded Edition is the ideal compendium of wood carving ideas for anyone who wants to learn how to carve found wood! Featuring overviews of the most commonly found woods, breakdowns of carving tools and essential wood carving safety tips, and highly detailed photographs from Jack Williams, these lessons from longtime carvers Vic Hood, Alec Lacasse, Kathy Overcash, and more will guide readers through the entire journey. Learn how to sculpt faces in cottonwood bark, carve an eagle from a found log, transform cypress knees into fairy cottages, and master the art of turning nature into your next woodcarving masterpiece!…mehr

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Carving Found Wood, Updated & Expanded Edition is the ideal compendium of wood carving ideas for anyone who wants to learn how to carve found wood! Featuring overviews of the most commonly found woods, breakdowns of carving tools and essential wood carving safety tips, and highly detailed photographs from Jack Williams, these lessons from longtime carvers Vic Hood, Alec Lacasse, Kathy Overcash, and more will guide readers through the entire journey. Learn how to sculpt faces in cottonwood bark, carve an eagle from a found log, transform cypress knees into fairy cottages, and master the art of turning nature into your next woodcarving masterpiece!
Autorenporträt
Vic Hood is the president of a unique building corporation, Leatherwood, Inc., which specializes in historic restoration. As a restorationist, Vic has been responsible for the restoration of several presidential houses, national landmarks, national monuments and house museums. He started carving in 1991, concentrating on carving full-size human busts for which he has won 83 awards, including several Best of Show awards. His most treasured honor was to be selected to create a Christmas ornament for the White House in 2001. Vic is one of the founders of the Leipers Fork Carving Club in Leipers Fork, Tennessee. Vic studied carving under John Burke and Larry Rogers for several years before becoming a carving instructor himself. He currently teaches classes on carving the human bust at several major workshops around the country and at individual club workshops. Due to Vics experience in competitive pumpkin carving, he was invited to be the featured pumpkin carver at the 2003 Gentry Farms Pumpkin Festival. Vic, along with Jack Williams, co-authored Carving Found Wood, published by Fox Chapel Publishing Co., Inc.