Chip Carving


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With the aid of oer 160 close-up photos professional woodcarver Barton shows how to sharpen the knives an duse them to create many different types of carving-on jewlry boxes, humidors, chair backs, buttons and barometers, shingles and more-and how to finish your work.




Chip Carving Patterns


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Chip carving is the simplest, quickest, most portable form of woodworking there is. Over 100 patterns to make drawer fronts, chair backs, and clockfaces, and mix and match these dozens of designs in hundreds of combinations. "The largest selection of patterns in any book. Sure to delight all who do chip carving."--Chip Chats.




Chip Carving Patterns and Designs


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Over 120 designs — many more than 500 years old — include rosettes, borders, ornate squares, circles, and other symmetrical motifs. For use on wood-handled knives, large chests and boxes, other projects. Selected from designs originating in Holland, Spain, North Africa, Romania, Russia, Scandinavia, and Polynesia.




The Complete Guide to Chip Carving


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Full-color, illustrated instructions for learning chip carving, showing how to create borders, rosettes, and lettering.




Chip Carving


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Chip Carving is the art of removing small sections of wood from a single piece of timber, usually to form geometric patterns. Finished pieces can be very intricate and complex but amazing results can be achieved surprisingly easily with the right guidance. Unlike many types of woodworking, chip carving requires very few tools, usually just two knives, and is a wonderful way too decorate all manner of existing objects including boxes, plates and furniture. The author guides the reader through the process of creating 15 distinctive projects. The necessary stages are explained with the use of detailed step-by-step photographs and accompanying text. The author also explains how to go about planning and designing each project in preparation for the actual carving process.




Chip Carving


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Chip Carving the Southwest


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The patterns of the Southwest have delighted tourists and art lovers for hundreds of years. Pam Gresham incorporates them into the art of chip carving, a marriage that works beautifully! Here are many patterns and ideas, and the techniques of layout and execution. Each step is illustrated with a color photograph, every project has accurate drawings. A gallery gives the carver some idea of the limitless possibilities.




Chip Carving Pennsylvania Dutch Designs


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Explore the wealth of design motifs developed by the German immigrants to Pennsylvania and perfect for chip carving. Pam applies a variety of the designs to a Wilkom plaque and a beautiful bible box, leading the carver step-by-step through the process of chip carving each of these creations. A gallery and patterns make this a most useful book.




Chip Carver's Workbook


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Chip carving—a style of woodcarving in which knives are used to remove selected "chips" of wood from the project in a single piece—is introduced in this guide. Noted chip carver and teacher Dennis Moor presents the tools and techniques needed to replicate this ancient woodcarving art with detailed guidance on wood, tools, and sharpening, and tips on how to hold chip carving knives. Instructions on the three main types of chip carving, layout and design, and on getting the pattern onto the wood, lettering, and finishing are included. Woodworkers are taken through seven projects, including a napkin holder, a plant box, a letter holder, a trinket box, a tissue box holder, and a cheese and cracker tray. A photo gallery of finished pieces provides inspiration for novice woodworkers.




Chip Carving Workshop


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"Chip Carving Workshop takes you through the essential chip carving techniques, from tool sharpening and preparation to hand positions, chip cutting, and finishing"--Page 4 of cover.