Woodcarving Illustrated Issue 74 Winter/Spring 2016 E-Book

Editors of Woodcarving Illustrated

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

Seitenzahl: 137

Beschreibung

FEATURESAnd The Winner Is…Announcing the first winners in the 2016 People's Choice ContestMiniature MasterpiecesBy Kathleen RyanExtraordinary Renaissance carving depict religious scenes in minuscule reliefSoapstone ArtistyBy Kathleen RyanThree sculptors share their tipsNo Fear at 94By Dean OttesonNonagenarian Tony Giuffrida fills retirement with creative carvingHeavenly PewsBy Kathleen RyanCindy Chinn combined carving, glass, and light to create angelic art.PATTERNSLeopard PatternPattern by Gordon and Marsha StillerReference photo, description, and detailed pattern help you carve a lifelike leopardCarving a CricifixBy Cindy ChinnTips for carving a religious iconTOOLSUniversal Bench HookBy Andrew DiPaceGet a grip on carving projects with uneven edgesPROJECTSFolk Art PeacockBy Vernon DePauwColorful quilt-inspired design is perfect for Mardi GrasCarving a North Woods Animal PuzzleBy Nancy BorsonEmbellish puzzle pieces with relief carving techniquesCasual Caricature RabbitBy Leah Goddard and Floyd RhadiganThis easy Easter bunny will be welcome in any basketSoapstone WhaleBy Julie KeeUse your woodcarving skills to create this stunning stone sea creatureBig Bad WhaleBy Barbara MillikanFierce carved wolf is a perfect accessory for days that really biteYorkie Dog CaricatureBy sandy SmithA pocket-sized pooch that's quick to makeCarving a Brook TroutBy Charles WeissUse a combination of hand and power tools to shape this realistic fishBuilding Noah's ArkBy Betty PaddenCarve and paint this popular childhood toyTECHNIQUESInlaid Bunny BoxBy roger F WolfordUse liquid inlay to add intricate designs to a remade boxAdding Arms to a CarvingBy Oren QuistControl the grain direction for stronger arms that are easier to carveTips for Personalizing a ToolboxBy Rev. Jim PaulsonIdeas to carve, paint, and decorate your toolbox

Leseprobe

CARVING

Noah’s

Ark

Learn Carving: 300+ Patterns & Photos Inside

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10-Minute Bench Hook

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Realism from

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Tips & Techniques

Tricking Out

Your Tool Box

Ideas to carve,

paint & more

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And The Winner Is…

Announcing the first winners in the

2016 People’s Choice Contest

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Miniature Masterpieces

By

Kathleen Ryan

Extraordinary Renaissance carvings

depict religious scenes in minuscule relief

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Soapstone Artistry

By

Kathleen Ryan

Three sculptors share their tips

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No Fear at 94

By

Dean Otteson

Nonagenarian Tony Giuffrida

fills retirement with creative carving

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Heavenly Pews

By

Kathleen Ryan

Cindy Chinn combines carving, glass,

and light to create angelic art

FEATURES

TOOLS

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Universal Bench Hook

By

Andrew DiPace

Get a grip on carving projects

with uneven edges

PATTERNS

46

Leopard Pattern

Pattern

by Gordon and Marsha Stiller

Reference photo, description,

and detailed pattern help you

carve a lifelike leopard

62

Carving a Crucifix

By

Cindy Chinn

Tips for carving a religious icon

www.woodcarvingillustrated.com

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Editor’s Note

6

From Our Mailbag

6

Tips and Techniques

8

Reader Gallery

12

Product Reviews

14

New Products

29

Contest Info

90

Calendar of Events

94

Coming Features

95

Ad Directory &

Classified Ads

96

Woodchips

WOODCARVINGILLUSTRATED.COM

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Inlaid Bunny Box

By

Roger F. Wolford

Use liquid inlay to add intricate

designs to a premade box

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Adding Arms to a Carving

By

Oren Quist

Control the grain direction for

stronger arms that are easier to carve

75

Tips for Personalizing

a Toolbox

By

Rev. Jim Paulson

Ideas to carve, paint, and decorate

your toolbox

TECHNIQUES

PROJECTS

•

Critter Caricature

See a gallery of Sandy Smith’s

other Critters and download a

detailed pattern for the

Yorkie Critter.

•

Personalized Toolbox

Download the alphabet and

numerals that Jim Paulson

used on his toolbox.

DEPTS.

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Woodcarving

Illustrated

on Facebook

Follow us on Twitter,

twitter.com/woodcarving

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Folk Art Peacock

By

Vernon DePauw

Colorful quilt-inspired design

is perfect for Mardi Gras

30

Carving a North Woods

Animal Puzzle

By

Nancy Borson

Embellish puzzle pieces with

relief carving techniques

38

Casual Caricature Rabbit

By

Leah Goddard and Floyd Rhadigan

This easy Easter bunny will be

welcome in any basket

51

Soapstone Whale

By

Julie Kee

Use your woodcarving skills to create

this stunning stone sea creature

56

Big Bad Wolf

By

Barbara Millikan

Fierce carved wolf is a perfect accessory

for days that really bite

64

Yorkie Dog Caricature

By

Sandy Smith

A pocket-sized pooch

that’s quick to make

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Carving a Brook Trout

By

Charles Weiss

Use a combination of hand and power

tools to shape this realistic fish

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Building Noah’s Ark

By

Betty Padden

Carve and paint this popular

childhood

toy

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Middle School

Carving Club

Meet Nancy Borson’s next-

generation carving kids.

•

Scrap Craft

Learn how Barbara Millikan

uses her Wolf’s Head scraps

to make cute doorstops.

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editor’s

note

Identification Statement:

Woodcarving Illustrated

vol. 20, no. 1

(Winter/Spring 2016) (ISSN#1096-2816) is published four times a year in the

months of February, May, August, and November by Fox Chapel Publishing

Co. Inc., 1970 Broad Street, East Petersburg, PA 17520.

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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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Editor

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Bob Duncan

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Art Director

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Contributing Photographers

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What’s Up With “Winter”

The Holiday issue of

Woodcarving Illustrated

has long

been delivered to subscribers in November and to

newsstands in December. Many carvers have told me

that they would like to have that magazine earlier so

they have time to make Christmas projects. So, last fall

I cheerfully said, sure, we’ll just back up the schedule by

a month! No problem! Except that

changed our schedule

by a month

, and suddenly you have your “Spring” issue

in January. (Doh!)

Since each issue will now arrive earlier, we changed

the titles to span the seasons: Winter/Spring, Spring/Summer,

Summer/Fall, and Fall/Holiday. You will still get the same four

issues every year, just a little earlier. Subscribers will receive the

Fall/Holiday issue in October. Finally, you will have time to make

your holiday projects!

Also new this issue, we are announcing the first set of winners

in our reformatted People’s Choice Contest. Instead of running

one big contest, we are holding a year long series of mini matches.

Turn to page 28 to see the winners in the first category, Realistic

Mammals (not human), and for info on the next category.

Next, we went a little crazy this issue and included something

that’s not wood. I think you’ll enjoy meeting the artists and seeing

the gorgeous soapstone carvings we gathered for you, as well as

trying your hand at carving this soft stone. You’ll use much the

same tools and techniques, but get a very different effect. If you

try it, send us a photo or share one on Facebook—we’d love to see

your work!

And speaking of gorgeous, look at Betty Padden’s ark on

page 78. Betty calls it a relief project because she built the ark

from stacked sections and carved the outside. We’ve given you

basic instructions for building and carving it, but we have more

information than we can fit into this issue. We’ve decided to

make the ark into a booklet with full-sized patterns, step-by-step

instructions, tons of photos, painting guides, a dozen animal

patterns—the works. Look for the booklet in early to mid-2016;

we’ll let you know when it’s ready.

Finally, we have resuscitated our website. If it has

been awhile since you looked at it, click on over to www.

woodcarvingillustrated.com. You’ll find news, patterns, tips, our

newest videos, and more. The forum is admittedly still sticky—

the software company is working on it for us—but I think you’ll

find a lot to like in the site. Let us know what you think.

Happy Carving!

Mindy Kinsey

[email protected]

Our Open House

woodworking show

will take place on

May 13-14, 2016,

not

Mother’s Day weekend.

See page 93 and visit

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for more information.

Reminder:

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FOX HUNT

Geraldyne Berg of Blooming Prairie, Minn., and Robert Raymond

of Wake Forest, N.C, are the winners drawn from the correct

entries received for

WCI

Holiday 2015 (Issue 73). The fox was

hiding in the Step 8 photo of Tom Borecki’s Clothespin Card

Holder Santa article on page 64.

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 March 17, 2016, 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.

tips and

techniques

TOP

TIP

✔

Double-Sided Ornaments:

Double the Fun

I really appreciated your response to the negative letter

about patterns in

Woodcarving Illustrated

Summer

2015 (Issue 71). Your reply about how a pattern is only

a place to “start” is really helpful and inspired me to

play with the double-sided Santa/Scarecrow ornament

from

Woodcarving Illustrated Fall

2014 (Issue 68). I

loved carving a double-sided ornament, so I decided

to create one of my own for

my carving class! They could

choose to carve one pattern

or carve both to make the

angel double-sided.

Carolea Hower

Arkansas City, Kan.

Edible Brush

Container

I have used different

gadgets and holders to

keep brushes and pens in a handy

place on a worktable, but I never

found the perfect solution. Then,

when I was about to toss some old

popping corn, I realized I could

put the corn in a small flower vase

to prop up my paintbrushes so I

can find them quickly and easily.

Nardene Park

Surrey, B.C., Canada

TOP TIP

in our Spring/Summer issue wins a

$25.00 Fox Chapel Publishing Gift Card. Send

your tip to

Woodcarving Illustrated

, 1970 Broad

Street, East Petersburg, Pa., 17520, or e-mail

[email protected].

This corny

storage idea

really works.

from our

mailbag

Carving Saver

Have you ever heard of a pizza saver? You

may not know the name, but you’ve probably

seen the little white thing in a pizza box

that keeps the box from collapsing in at the

center and touching the food inside. This

can be really handy when you are painting

a carving. It can hold the carving while you

paint and until the paint dries. In the picture

you can see that I used a pizza saver to hold

up my opossum carving in progress (taught

by Leah Goddard at our Mystic Carvers Club

seminar in September 2015).

Alice Mellor

Scotland, Conn.

The little plastic gizmo

in your pizza box makes a great

caddy for freshly painted carvings.

Twin angels are carved

on both sides of the same

ornament.

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reader

gallery

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Eagle Head

Wayne Hill of Gravenhurst, Ont., Canada,

was commissioned to carve three of these eagles for

the ridge beams of a multi-million dollar “cottage.” He

used dimensional pine from the lumber store and hand

tools to carve the 22"-long heads. The hand-hammered,

polished copper eyes are finished with high-gloss

lacquer and are meant to catch the sun.

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Stag Flask

William H. Fluke of Everett, Pa., has been

power-carving antlers for about five years. This is his

version of a European stag flask carved in low relief.

3

Joyful Noise

Mike Dize of Indian Trail, N.C., carved

this barbershop quartet from basswood as a birthday

present for his father. It is 3" by 4" and was carved with

rotary tools. Mike has drawn cartoons for years, and

many of his carvings, including this one, have a fun,

cartoonish quality to them.

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Brothers of Man

Robin Deruchie of Wolf Creek

Carvings in Clyone, Ont., Canada, carved this gorgeous

bar framed by a bear and a wolf. The entire project was

cut from one 32' by 24" section of a black walnut tree.

Robin carved the bear and wolf using chainsaws and

created the finer facial details with a micro grinder. Robin

said the bar represents brotherhood and fellowship.

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Wrendigos

Al Kelner of Eriksdale, Man., Canada, united

his enjoyment of carving wood spirits with his love for

birds. He combined the Algonquian Wendigo (an evil

flesh-eating spirit) with a wren birdhouse to create a

“wrendigo”—a wood spirit that is a friend to birds,

specifically wrens. He carved the wrendigo from cedar,

and it stands about 2' tall.

Let’s see your latest work!

Send good, clear photos (professional color prints or 300dpi resolution

digital images) and 100 words describing your project to: Reader

Gallery,

Woodcarving Illustrated

, 1970 Broad St., East Petersburg, PA

17520, or e-mail [email protected].

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Polar Bear

Ivan Foster of Pefferlaw, Ont., Canada,

carved this polar bear head from the skull plate of a

moose. He carved it with rotary tools, using carbide bits

and even dental bits. He added color only to the nose

and the eyes.

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The One That

Didn’t

Get Away

Rather than talking

wistfully about “the one that got away,” Frank Napoli of

Centereach, N.Y., imagines the one that didn’t—to the

fisherman’s dismay! The hapless angler is flattened under

the huge fish.

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Bush Plane

Charles Weiss of Toronto, Ont., Canada,

carved this 16" bush plane with muskie-shaped

pontoons out of white pine. He sealed it with shellac,

primed the carving with gesso, and painted it with

acrylic paint. He says this carving expresses the

connection between the air transportation in the

north woods and mythical oversized muskellunge.

He dedicated this carving to his late father.

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Grandparents’ Farm Gunstock

Roger F. Wolford of

Groveland Ill., says that his grandparents were “partial to

the old ways of life.” In tribute to them, he carved a farm

scene on a Henry Golden Boy .22 caliber rifle provided

by his cousin. Roger’s grandparents often found

arrowheads while plowing, which explains the shape of

the design.

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Great Blue Heron

Brian Altison of Holden, Mass., has

been carving for 17 years, although he has been making

furniture and doing carpentry for many more years.

Brian’s heron is 27" tall, made of pine, and painted with

acrylics. It has rebar legs and is set in a base coated with

pour-on high-gloss finish to simulate water.

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Sausalito

Bruce MenNé of Fleming Island, Fla., has

been working with wood for most of his life, but started

carving surreal violin sculptures shortly after he retired.

He carved Sausalito, 10" by 18", from redwood with a

natural edge that transforms into a violin.

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product

reviews

by Bob Duncan

Woodcraft’s QuikBench

While some carvers

have

the space for a full-sized stationary bench, many

work in any available space. Woodcraft’s QuikBench provides a strong, stable

clamping surface that folds up to fit under a bed or alongside a freezer.

The QuikBench has a 24" by 30" working surface and a 16" by 22" shelf.

It comes with an integrated two-screw vise and a variety of bench dogs and

bench-dog holes. You can easily combine it with a bench hook or any of the

many bench hold-downs, toggles, or mini vises designed to fit into bench-dog

holes. You can even make your own cams to hold irregularly shaped pieces.

I often use the bench when roughing out a large project with power. I can

set the bench up outside, run an extension cord to the integrated power strip,

add some chunks of wood for weight to the shelf, and make all the dust and

noise outside. It’s stable enough for me to use big reciprocating carvers and

angle grinders without moving. If I don’t have

enough

weight on the shelf,

I can plant a foot

there

to hold it steady. In my shop, it’s a handy supplemental

assembly space where I can glue up panels without using up my limited supply

of clamps.

If you leave the tabletop folded but extend the legs, you can use a pair of

the benches like saw horses. For a larger workspace, you

can

lock two benches

together with their tables extended.

The QuikBench is available for $129.99 plus S&H from Woodcraft,

800-225-1153, www.Woodcraft.com.

Rockler’s Silicone Project Mat is one of those products

that makes you ask, “Why hasn’t anyone thought of