Woodcarving Illustrated Issue 59 Summer 2012 E-Book

Editors of Woodcarving Illustrated

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

Seitenzahl: 141

Beschreibung

This issue features:Power carving: quick, easy, effectiveHiking sticks: with ball-inpcage designSimple and strong shellac finishesEasy-carve realistic eyesMake a dragon for your deskCarve more, sharpen less: our $90 solution

Leseprobe

FEATURES

72

Power sharpening

is quick, easy, and

effective.

4

Editor’s Letter

6

From Our Mailbag

8

News and Notes

10

Tips and Techniques

12

Reader Gallery

14

Product Review

16

Relief Column

86

Shop Notes

88

Calendar of Events

94

Coming Features

95

Ad Directory

& Classified Ads

96

Woodchips

DEPARTMENTS

19

Best of Show

By

Bob Duncan

Top

winners from three popular

carving competitions

24

Custom Carved Guitars

By

Kathleen Ryan

Doug

Rowell traded making music

for making musical instruments

28

The Art of Wood

By

Mindy Kinsey

Billy

Reynolds carves to enhance

naturally sculpted wood

SUMMER 2012

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ISSUE 59

in this

issue

From the

COVER

Hiking Sticks

With Ball-in-Cage

Design. . . . . . . . . .

62

Simple and Strong

Shellac Finishes

78

Easy-Carve

Realistic Eyes . . .

82

Make a Dragon

For Your Desk . .

67

Carve More,

Sharpen Less

Our $90 Solution

72

www.woodcarvingillustrated.com

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30

Creating a Log Picture Book

By

Roy Ellery

Turn

a log into a book using a

simple pierced-relief technique

36

Carving a Sleepy Owl

By

Joseph Savarese

Use

guidelines to create a

balanced

and symmetrical carving

41

Carving a Realistic Shirt Box

By

Joe A. Avarista

Functional

box provides good

practice in creating textures

48

Carving a Caricature Beer Bottle

By

Floyd Rhadigan

Add

a fun cowboy carving

to

a turned bottle

54

Carving a Box Turtle

By

Dylan Goodson

Use

texturing and a woodburner

to

create a realistic reptile

62

Carving a Rattle Stick

By

Steve Buchholz

Combine

wood spirits with a

ball-in-cage

to create a unique

walking stick

67

Carving a Dragon Head

By

Tom Borecki

Modify

a staple remover to

create

a fierce but functional

dragon for your desk

76

Whittling a Tabletop Bowling Set

By

Chris Lubkemann

Use

twigs and scraps to craft

this

small set in an evening

PROJECTS

TECHNIQUES

Check out

Woodcarving Illustrated

on Facebook

Follow us on Twitter, twitter.com/woodcarving

72

Sharpening with Power

By

Mac Proffitt

Use

inexpensive power tools

to

get a sharp edge fast

78

Applying a Shellac Finish

By

David Stewart

Easy-to-apply

finish is

great

for chip carvings

82

Making Realistic Wooden Eyes

By

Ray Kunz

Quick

and easy method

uses

contrasting dowels

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Bonus Photos

Hillbilly Reunion, pg. 8;

Custom Carved Guitars, pg. 24;

Creating a Log Picture Book, pg. 30;

Carving a Caricature Beer Bottle, pg. 48

See more photos and different views

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Carving Inspiration

Carving a Rattle Stick, pg. 62, and Woodchips, pg. 96

Put your carved rattle sticks to work—plan a hiking

trip on the Appalachian Trail

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Handy Reference

Sharpening with Power, pg. 72

Share these basic sharpening techniques

with online friends

Additional

online features: community forum • carver galleries • article

index • free patterns • tips • product reviews • subscriber services

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Identification Statement: Woodcarving Illustrated vol. 16, no. 2

(Summer 2012) (ISSN#1096-2816) is published four times a year in the

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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 supplied with your tools.

Be aware 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.

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Shannon Flowers

Technical Editor

Bob Duncan

Associate Editorial Manager

Mindy Kinsey

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Troy Thorne

Art Director

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editor’s

letter

Seven-Year Itch

I love a good challenge. In 2005, I took over the editorial

duties at

Woodcarving Illustrated

as a temporary

assignment. I was just filling in until we found the right

person to be the new editor. Much to my surprise, I ended

up falling in love with the job. And, thanks to the vast

knowledge and unfailing support of our technical editor,

Bob Duncan, I think I was fairly successful.

Over the next seven years, Bob and I worked as a team

to nurture the magazine. Fortunately, we had the guidance of

seasoned editor John Kelsey and the solid foundation of longtime

designer Jon Deck to help us along the way. I learned a lot about

carving and editing, made tons of friends, and developed new skills.

My husband and I recently made the decision to relocate to

Florida. That change poses some interesting challenges. While it

means that I will no longer be the editor, I will still be involved with

both of Fox Chapel’s magazines in some fashion.

During my time as an editor, I’ve grown quite possessive. I knew

I couldn’t trust the magazine to just anyone. We started scouting

for potential candidates to take over the job of being editor, and last

year Mindy Kinsey joined our team. She started her career with Fox

Chapel as a freelance editor for a special pyrography issue, and I

quickly learned that Mindy and I have a lot in common. We’re both

organized and efficient—traits that Bob probably has some other

terms to describe—and I feel confident that she is the right person

to lead the magazine into the future.

Admittedly, I have some control issues and it’s not going to be

easy for me to step down. But I know Bob and Jon will keep Mindy

in line. You can still write or e-mail me—in fact, I’d like that. It will

help ease the withdrawal pains.

I look forward to facing my next challenge, and I wish the best of

luck to Mindy as she takes the next step in her life’s journey. I know

you will make her feel as welcome in the role of editor as you did me.

Shannon Flowers

[email protected]

Shannon Flowers gracefully

passes the editorial torch

to Mindy Kinsey under Bob

Duncan’s watchful eye.

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from our

mailbag

Thank you for Terry Brasher’s article about carving

softballs in

Woodcarving Illustrated

Fall 2011 (Issue

56). I have had a lot of fun carving them. The polycore

inside the softballs carves almost like a cypress knee,

and you need to buff your tools often. Thanks for all

you do to support woodcarving.

Roger Beane

Via E-mail

FOX HUNT

Helen Foster of Vancouver, Wash., and

Wayne Benedict of Chambersburg, Pa., are

the winners drawn from the correct entries

received for

WCI

Spring 2012 (Issue 58). The fox

was hidden on page 34, below the red devil

bottle stopper in the Tequila Worm Bottle

Stopper article.

Find the fox in this issue, and contact us with

the page number and location. Two readers

randomly selected from all correct replies

will receive a $25 Fox Chapel Publishing gift

certificate. Entries must be received by June 27,

2012, to be eligible.

NOTE: With his feet on the

“ground,” the contest fox faces left (other foxes in

WCI

don’t count).

Send your entry to

Woodcarving Illustrated

,

Attn: Find the Fox, 1970 Broad Street,

East Petersburg, Pa. 17520, or enter online

under the contests link at www.

woodcarvingillustrated.com.

Carved Softballs

Inspired by an article by Terry

Brasher, Roger Beane carved

fun faces in softballs.

Variations on Carved Trees

The sculpted trees Dennis Carlson

shared in

Woodcarving Illustrated

Holiday 2011 (Issue 57) were

a great idea! A number of the

members of our small carving

group are making themselves

forests. I have taken Dennis’

suggestion to experiment with

different spirals. In the photo, the

middle tree is made using Dennis’

technique. The right tree is a

double spiral where I cut notches

at each turn and rounded the

edges to give the tree a snow-laden

look. The left tree has two spirals

starting on opposite corners and

running to the right.

My small trees were made from

the triangle pieces sawed from the

large trees. I’m having great fun

with this project.

Fred Byers

Indian, Alaska

Fred Byers added spirals

and notches to give his

trees a different look.

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Hillbilly

Reunion

The members of the

Woodcarving Illustrated

message

board, an online community, have worked together

on several group projects over the years. Most of the

projects were auctioned for charity, including the

recent wooden quilts created last year for tsunami

relief. Members also exchange carved holiday

ornaments every year.

In early 2010, message board members Tom

Hindes and the late Thomas Perrin suggested creating

a group project for

Woodcarving Illustrated

magazine

to display at carving shows. Tom presented the idea to

the rest of the message board, and the group agreed to

create a Hillbilly Reunion scene. Two dozen

members contributed to the project, and

several carved more than one piece.

Tom Hindes and Sam Carnes collected

the pieces and arranged them to create

the scene. Tom made the farmhouse and

the base, and the pair built a large wooden

packing crate to transport the carvings. The group

presented the scene to

Woodcarving Illustrated

at

the 2011 Dayton (Ohio) Artistry in Wood show,

where it was admired and enjoyed by visitors to

the magazine’s booth. The scene is displayed

in the magazine’s office between trips to

carving shows.

Our thanks to the following carvers

who contributed to the scene: Jim Arnold,

ONLINE

BONUS

See a gallery of

the Hillbilly

Reunion carvings on our website.

woodcarvingillustrated.com



Jeff Bailey, Earl Benton, Kris Brown, Robert Cahill,

Sam Carnes, Gilles Caron, Claude Freaner, Tony

Harris, Tom Hindes, Herb Johnson, Gene Messer,

L. Miller, DiLeon Morrow, Eric Oswandel, F. Pace,

Brian Rickman, Dan Slater, Wayne Smith, Mike

Sullivan, Kent Wilkins, and Stephen Wood.

To see a gallery of the individual carvings, please

visit our website, www.woodcarvingillustrated.com.

Plus, join the message-board fun by clicking the forum

link in the menu.

news and

notes

In September 2011, Tropical Storm Lee caused local

streams, creeks, and rivers to rise to record levels in

Lancaster County, Pa. The storm caused hundreds of

thousands of dollars in flood-related damage.

Shannon Flowers, a long-time Fox Chapel

Publishing employee and the editor of

Woodcarving

Illustrated

magazine, fled her home as flood waters

rose through the basement and three feet high on

the main level. Her family lost everything on those

two floors. They have spent many months renovating

their home and recovering a sense of normalcy.

In response, Fox Chapel Publishing sold Grab-

Bags of books and donated 100% of the proceeds to

Shannon and the fire department in Mount Joy, Pa.

The benefit raised $7,166.40. The fire department

donated its share of the proceeds to Shannon and her family.

Our thanks to all of the readers who responded to the benefit

and helped Shannon and her family rebuild.

[Ed. Note: Due to the timing, the Grab-Bags were

only offered via our website. Sign up for our e-newsletter

at www.woodcarvingillustrated.com.]

WCI Editor Recovers from

Flood Thanks to Readers

Thanks to donations and gifts, Shannon

and her family have nearly finished

rebuilding their home, which suffered

more than $50,000 in flood damage.

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tips and

techniques

Stropping

Angle

From Don Ghee

Huntington Station, N.Y.

No matter how you strop, whether by hand

or with power, the surface you are working is

always face down and out of sight. This makes

it difficult to see if you are holding the tool at

the correct angle.

I use a Sharpie® marker to draw a broad

mark on the side of the blade to be stropped.

Stropping removes the ink only from the

parts of the blade in contact with the strop. If

the ink is removed from the heel of the blade

and not the whole bevel, you are holding the

tool at too low an angle. If you hold the tool

at too high an angle, the ink is removed only

from the tip of the edge, which can produce a

double bevel. Slightly adjust the way you hold

the tool until the ink is removed evenly from

the blade; a few additional strokes will polish

the tool and remove any remaining ink.

I also use this method when sharpening

my tools with a stone or grinder. This way,

I can be sure I have only a single bevel on

my tools.

TOP TIP

in our Fall Issue wins an

autographed copy of

Big Book of Whittle

Fun

, Chris Lubkemann’s newest book.

Send your tip to

Woodcarving

Illustrated

, 1970 Broad Street, East

Petersburg, Pa., 17520, or e-mail

[email protected].

TOP

TIP

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Organizing Sandpaper

From Carol Leavy, via E-mail

I use small strips of sandpaper, and sometimes the grit of the

sandpaper is not visible on the backs of the small pieces. A

friend suggested I reinforce sandpaper with strips of duct tape,

especially when I’m sanding in tight corners. I decided to color-

code the duct tape based on the grit. Cover the back of the

sandpaper with the colored duct tape, and cut the sandpaper

into strips with scissors. Clean the adhesive off the scissors

with Simple Green.

Mark the face of the cutting edges of

your tools with a black marker before

stropping or sharpening.

Color-code

small strips

of sandpaper

with duct tape

to identify

their grits.

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reader

gallery

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Reclining Dragon

Derrick Thacker

of

Kingsport, Tenn., created

this dragon from a piece

of buckeye, which he

said carves similarly to

basswood. The dragon was

Derrick’s first in-the-round

piece carved from his own

pattern, and was inspired

by audio books by Naomi

Novik, which Derrick

listens to while he carves.

Group Effort

Members of the Greater Lansing (Mich.)

Wood Carvers

created this 10-foot-tall

totem pole. The pole, carved from a red

cedar utility pole, was the work of (pictured

from left to right) Larry Cummins, Bill Lixie,

John Barany, Bill Peterson, and Bob Hanna.

The men made the 6-foot-long wings from

wood recycled from a church pew. The group

roughed out the piece with a chainsaw and

added the details with hand tools.

Golf Club Ducks

Donald Sawyer

of Camano Islands,

Wash., scours flea markets and swap meets

looking for wooden golf clubs. Because

most of today’s golf clubs are made from

graphite composites and titanium, wooden

drivers are a thing of the past. When

Donald finds an old wooden driver, he

turns it into the body for a carved duck.

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product

review

By Bob Duncan

Woodcarvers Supply has redesigned their Pro Champion micro motor

to give it a higher top speed and greater power (torque). The tool now

features a top speed of 46,000rpm.

The Micro Pro kit eliminates the foot control. I never use the foot

control with a micro motor, and I don’t know many carvers who do. The

speed control dial and power switch are in convenient locations, and the

handpiece is balanced and comfortable to hold. The kit comes with 3/

32"-

and "-diameter quick-change collets, and the handpiece uses sealed NSK

bearings. It also features an integrated handpiece holder.

To test the limits of the tool, I chucked in a large carbide-point bit