TITLE/AUTHOR: CHIP CARVING: Techiques & Patterns by Wayne Barton
PUBLISHER: Sterling, New York, NY, Copyright 1984, Original price $8.95
ISBN: (10) 0806979240 (13) 978-0806979243
ILLUSTRATOR: Profusely illustrated with B&W photographs
DESCRIPTION: Soft cover, Pictorial cover, 126 pages, Measures approx. 7 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches
CONDITION: Like New, Looks like it was never read, Pages white, clean and tight, Cover clean, colorful and tight, Very light edge wear
JACKET CONDITION: No Dust Jacket, As issued
ABOUT THIS BOOK: Originally a folk art used to decorate every wooden tool, utensil or piece of furniture around the house and barn (including the house and barn), chip carving gets its name from the process in which the carver “chips” away precise, regular pieces of wood, leaving a design cut into a flat wood surface. in Switzerland and Germany it’s called Kerbschnitzen or “engraving carving.”
With the aid of over 160 close-up photos (140 of his own projects), professional woodcarver Barton shows how to sharpen the knives, and use them to create many different types of carvings – on jewelry boxes, humidors, chair backs, buttons and barometers, shingles, and more – and how to finish your work. The author has included many of his most famous designs, patterns and lettering styles (on graph paper and ready for transfer).
The instructions are simple – the results can be magnificent!
