Woodcarving Illustrated Issue 29 Holiday 2004 E-Book

Editors of Woodcarving Illustrated

• Herausgeber: Fox Chapel Publishing
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• Serie: Woodcarving Illustrated Magazine
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

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Featured in this issue:Gift guide for carversSpecial holiday carving projectsSanta carving gallery9 ornament ideasSeeasonal cookie moldsPower carved chickadee ornamentCarve your own holiday cards

Leseprobe

Issue no. 29 Holiday 2004

Carving a

Traditional

Flat Santa

14

Carving a Traditional Flat Santa

14

Here’s an easy-to-carve holiday ornament idea that’s as fun to carve

as it is to give.

Quick-Carve Snowman

20

Once you master the simple techniques, it is easy to personalize these

holiday favorites for everyone on your gift list.

Egghead Santa

27

Several gift ideas can “hatch” from this project suitable for beginners.

2004 Ward World Championships

34

Celebrate wildlife carving with winners of the world-class

competition in Ocean City, Maryland.

Don’t miss the 2005 event set for April 22-24.

Sleeping Chickadee Christmas Ornament

37

Nestled in the branches of a Christmas tree, this bird-carving project

is perfect for that “Silent Night.”

Edible Art

44

Now you’re cooking! Gene Wilson’s carved wooden cookie molds.

Includes authentic recipes.

Gifts for Carvers

49

A gift for any budget. Check out the latest and greatest.

Woodcraft Santa Contest

53

Bruce Futterer’s

Santa with Toboggan

wins from a talented

field of 147 entries.Make sure you enter this year’s contest

by November 30, 2004, at your local Woodcraft store.

Carve a Shell

59

Six easy steps to this classic furniture carving detail.

Sleeping

Chickadee

Ornament

In this

ISSUE

In This Issue

Wood Carving Illustrated • Holiday 2004

1

Edible

Art

44

37

Quick-Carve

Snowmen

20

Whittling a Miniature Flower

65

Pro whittler Chris Lubkemann’s latest quick and easy project.

Peeking Santa Ornament

67

You’ll have fun quickly creating this project to hang on your tree

or to surprise friends with.

Carving a Bulldog Bulletin Board-Part II Painting

71

Carve and Print Your Own Holiday Cards

76

Adapt traditional block printing methods and carve your

own holiday card design.

All About Drawknives, Spokeshaves and Scorps

81

Explore these traditional cabinetmaking tools and how they

can make a carver’s life easier

Regular Columns

Publisher’s Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

From Our Mailbag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

News & Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Tips & Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Reader Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Relief Column from Lora S. Irish . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Calendar of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87

Classifieds

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91

Advertising Directory

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92

In this

ISSUE

53

Woodcraft

®

Santa Contest

2004

Ward World

Championships

34

2

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Woodcarving and the use of associated equipment can potentially result

in health hazards and injuries.

While we cannot impose safety standards

in every article, we do ask that you make safety your number one

priority.

Protect your respiratory system, hearing, vision and the rest of

your body with the proper safety equipment and prudent precautions.

Read

manuals that are supplied with your tools.

Be aware that most accidents

occur when you are tired or distracted.

And when in doubt, seek advice

from professionals, on how to keep your tools sharp and maintained.

Dear Carving Friends:

Every issue, we compete with ourselves in trying to make the next issue of

WCI

the best ever.

For this year’s Holiday issue—I think we’ve done it and hope

you agree.

We’ve listened to the many voices of readers and so in this issue you’ll find

several beautiful projects appropriate for the beginner—Peeking Santa (page 67)

Quick Carve Snowmen (page 20) and Whittling Flowers (page 65). There is

growing interest in classic and furniture carving. With only three chisels, you’ll

learn how to carve a traditional shell design (page 59)—simple and very classy.

Of course, our Christmas issue wouldn’t be complete without surveying the

winners of our annual Santa contest sponsored by Woodcraft

®

stores. With over

50 artists featured you might just recognize a fellow carver.

As we’ve expanded the contributions of our staff to brainstorm great ideas

for future issues,I’ve been amazed at the quality of carvings we’re featuring.

There really is no end in sight of high quality carvings to cover.

As part of this new editorial energy—we are pleased to introduce three

new types of columns we’ll be running in future issues:

What’s it worth?

,

Judges’ Critique

, and

Teachers’ Corner

. These articles can be very useful but only

if you help by sending in your photos. Please see page 9 for descriptions of these

new features.

From all of us here at

Wood Carving Illustrated

and Fox Chapel Publishing,

we wish you a season filled with family love and togetherness, creativity and the

wisdom to see and enjoy the blessings that surround us every day.

Happy Carving,

Alan Giagnocavo

Publisher

Our Mission:

To promote woodcarving as an artform

and an enjoyable pastime.

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Joel Hull

Lori Corbett

Barry McKenzie

Dave Stetson

Mike Burton

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Jack Kochan

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Holiday 2004

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Wood Carving Illustrated • Holiday 2004

Publisher’s Corner

Troy is also an avid woodworker.

This scale model of a classic Chris Craft is

an example of his accomplishments!

Bob Duncan, Editorial Assistant

The newest member of our Fox Family,Bob

is hard at work writing articles and hosting

the carving chat room on our website:

www.WoodCarving Illustrated.com

.

Our editorial acquisitions team in

our in-house studio—left to right:

Alan Giagnocavo (President/Publisher),

Peg Couch (Book Acquisitions),Mark Vogel

(Marketing Manager), Shannon Flowers

(Administrative Manager), Paul McGahren

(Director of Sales); lower right inset:

Troy Thorne (Creative Director)

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Wood Carving Illustrated • Holiday 2004

From our Mailbag

From our

MAILBAG

Write Us!

Let us know what’s on your mind. Please

contact us by mail at: Mailbag,

Wood

Carving Illustrated

, 1970 Broad St., East

Petersburg, PA 17520 or email us at

[email protected]

.

If you send an email, please add the word

Mailbag first in the subject line. Note:

Letters may be edited for clarity and

length. Opinions expressed by our letter

writers do not necessarily represent

those of the staff and management at

Wood Carving Illustrated

.

In Need of

King Solomon’s Wisdom

As a novice, I have no carving tools

nor have I ever carved, but I am

interested in taking courses and have

enrolled. In your opinion, which tools

would be the better choice for me,

Flexcut Carving Tools or Warren Tools?

I know both have been reviewed in

WCI

, but I want to obtain what is best

to work with.

William Stackhouse,

Rensselaer, New York

Editor-at-Large Roger Schroeder

offers: I have carved with both

Flexcut and Warren products and

find them easy to grip as they

remove wood.You may not.The

bottom-line issue is this: How

comfortable is a set of tools to use?

While you can order sets through

catalogs and send back what isn’t

appealing, a better approach is to see

first hand what tools students in

your carving classes are using.The

chances are good that not all those

attending are beginners.With any

luck, they will let you try some of

their chisels, gouges and V tools.

Many instructors I’ve met don’t loan

tools but instead sell their favorite

brands to students. If that’s the case,

you may end up with tools other

than those made by Flexcut or

Warren.

Another option is to attend

a carving club. Carving clubs

throughout North America can be

found on our website at

www.WoodCarvingIllustrated.com/

clubs.php

.Or, you can check the

Calendar of Events section in

Wood

Carving Illustrated

for shows,

competitions and exhibitions. These

usually have vendors present who will

help you select carving tools and may

even have a block of wood you can

try them on. Once you’ve gotten a grip

on a set of tools, the next step will be

learning to keep them sharp.To me,

that’s the real test of a carving tool.

Really Ripped Off

I found Mailbag remarks in issue no.

27 concerning Mr.John Taye of Boise,

Idaho, interesting. Maybe my story will

make him laugh.

Here on Washington’s coast is a

place known as Ocean Shores.We were

there on a short vacation.The ladies

were shopping. My gouges and mallet

and I were alone.A large tangle of logs

had washed in with a Pacific storm.

A particular piece intrigued me and I

started banging away.When finished a

while later, there was an Indian head

carved on it. I had not signed it. Days

later, I returned to find someone had

taken a chainsaw and removed my

carving. I had to laugh that someone

would do that. I’ll probably never know

if they liked it well enough to take it or

if they disliked it so much that it

became firewood.

Henry Chamberlain,

Lynnwood,Washington

Publisher Alan Giagnocavo notes:

Watch for a profile and gallery of

carvings by John Taye in the spring

issue of

WCI

.

Log Jam in Israel

I have made a few attempts to carve

logs I come across locally.They range

in diameter from 10" to 20". Some I

receive green and others are semi-dry.

The appearance of cracks seems

inevitable even though I have painted

the ends with PVA glue.What is the

best way to treat green logs so that

they dry with minimum cracking and

no worms? How do I protect semi-dry

logs from cracking during the carving

Emblems by John Taye

process?

And how do I protect the

final sculpture? I live in Israel and work

in a non-air-conditioned space where

temperatures often reach 100 degrees

in the summer.

Talya Feldmann,

email

Editor-at-Large Roger Schroeder

responds:The loss of moisture in wood

is greatest after it is first cut.Water

evaporates quickly through the end

grain, so the ends are typically sealed

to prevent cracking.Carvers I know

who dry their own wood typically use

a heavy coat of paint, wax or, as you

have tried, glue.

I have read that in

hotter, drier climates logs ready for

milling are actually misted with water

to maintain humidity levels and

prevent cracks.To combat splits from

developing during the course of

carving, you might want to wrap the

wood in a plastic wrap or store the

carving in a plastic bag filled with

moist wood chips. Despite the best

attempts at controlling the drying

process, cracks may still appear.Here

you need to adapt to the problem by

filling them with wedges of wood

fashioned from cutoffs from the log.

As for worms, if you don’t see them

crawling out of the log during the

carving process, then you probably

won’t have to worry about them.There

are ways to fumigate a log infested

with unwanted visitors, but some

methods can be dangerous to your

health. As for a finish, I would favor

a good, waterbased polyurethane. It is

easy to apply and protective.

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News & Notes

Taming the Dragon

with Sawzall and Grinders

When Tim Little saw this piece of wood, he

knew it had to be a dragon. A resident of

Logandale, Nevada,Tim writes that the

wood is tamarisk or saltcedar. Introduced

from southern Eurasia in the 19th century,

the tree was used for flood control in his

valley. When he found the half-burned tree

remnant, it had been floating in a reservoir.

He says,“I was so excited,I couldn’t wait to

get it home.”

Tim, who calls himself a novice carver,

says that the piece consists of a root base

and branches. He quickly realized that the

wood was hard and not easy to carve, so he

used a Milwaukee Sawzall saw and grinders

to do the shaping and detailing. Sanding

was done by hand.Tim used handtools on

the eyes. He then layered several different

colors to give the eyes depth.To provide a

glossy look, he coated them with a five-

minute epoxy.

The teeth and snout horns are pieces

of old, bleached and dried antlers. Because

of their condition, they give the sculpture

a more realistic look. He did polish them

with jeweler’s rouge.

A jeweler, finish carpenter and

presently a woodworker,Tim hopes to

obtain commission work based on his

dragon, which received a fair amount of

recognition at a dragon festival held at the

Lake Las Vegas Resort.

Klockit’s 2004 Create-A-Clock

Contest

Klockit holds an annual contest for all

aspiring clockmakers.This year’s categories

include Best Mantel or Desk Clock, Best

Wall Clock, Best Floor Clock and Master

Clock Builder. Prizes range from $100 to

$500 Klockit gift certificates. All clocks

must use Klockit products in some part of

the clock, but the design is up to you! All

entries will be judged on a photograph of

the clock and your personal story about

your experience building the clock. Send

your photograph and story to:

Klockit

c/o Clock Contest

P.O. Box 636

Lake Geneva,WI 53147

Winners will be featured in a future

Klockit catalog. All entries must be

postmarked by December 31, 2004 so

start working! See

www.klockit.com/

clockcontest.asp

for more photos

of past winners and contest details.

Ian Norbury to

Tour the U.S.

British sculpting and carving

legend Ian Norbury announc-

ed an upcoming teaching schedule

and book tour in the United States.

Norbury, author of several books

including

The Art of Ian Norbury

and

Carving Classic Female Figures in

Wood

—both recently published by Fox

Chapel Publishing—will tour the U.S.

February through May, 2005. Dates and

locations have not been announced yet.

Keep an eye on our web site,

www.WoodCarvingIllustrated.com

, or

Ian’s web site,

www.IanNorbury.com

, for

dates, times and locations.

The Incredible Shrinking

Double-Decker RV

When Mark Gordon saw a double-decker

bus turned into a mobile coffee shop, the

light bulb lit up with megawattage. Since

Mark had been looking for some inspira-

tion to build a tableau on a miniature

News &

NOTES

Tim Little transformed a unique

piece of driftwood into a dragon

sculpture, shown here with his

daughter, Caitlin.

scale, he envisioned a house—or

recreational vehicle—on wheels.

A resident of Columbus, Ohio, where

he works as a cabinetmaker,Mark wowed

Wood Carving Illustrated

readers once

before with a tool box filled with 100

tools, each carved from a different wood.

See “News & NOTES,”

WCI’s

Issue no. 19,

Summer 2002.The box was a hit at the

Ohio State Fair in 2001, where it took First

Place in the Woodcarving Division. In the

wake of success, Mark decided to enter his

latest project in the 2003 State Fair’s

Miniature Class.

Starting one year prior to the event,

Mark worked up drawings of a 1952

English double-decker bus. Arriving at a

scale of 1

1

/

2

" equals 1', which makes the

bus nearly 3' long, he decided on

3

/

16

"-thick

maple plywood, designed for model

aircraft, for the framework. Given the size

of his project, Mark realized he would not

be able to purchase ready-made

furnishings. Instead, he carved the

furniture, including two elegant armchairs.

Preferring a traditional look with a French

flair, Mark primarily used a hobby knife

and small relief-carving tools to

shape the seating. Since he

wanted this project to be solely

his work, he did his own

upholstering.

Mark finished

the double-decker RV with a month to

spare before entering the Ohio State

Fair. His efforts paid off. Mark took home

First Place and Best of Show for his entry.

Steven Guzman placed

in a previous Klockit

contest with this

submission.

Photos by J.Tomasi

Mark Gordon’s mini-

ature double-decker RV,filled with

hand-carved furnishings, was a labor

of love that took Best of Show at

the 2003 Ohio State Fair.

News & Notes

Wood Carving Illustrated • Holiday 2004

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New features for

Wood

Carving Illustrated

:

What’s It Worth?

With carvings, such as an

original Wilhelm Schimmel,

fetching more than $10,000, that

carving on your shelf may be worth

more than you think.

Wood Carving Illustrated

is teaming

up with several noted antique auction companies to fill you

in on what your carvings are worth.

If you would like to get a piece considered for appraisal

in the magazines, send clear photos of the front, back and

sides of the carving along with general dimensions and

where you found it. Also note any identifying characterist-

ics, such as an artist’s signature. Photos cannot be returned.

Send your photos to 1970 Broad St., East Petersburg, PA

17520 Attn:

What’s It Worth?

We will feature one carving in

every issue.

Teachers’ Corner

The best part about attending woodcarving classes is

spending some one-on-one time with the teacher. Anyone

who has been carving long enough to teach has picked up

some great tips and techniques. But not everyone has time

to take carving classes.

That’s why

WCI