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CARVING: BIRDS & WATERFOWL; CANES & WALKING STICKS | 65 Creating the Preening Blue Wing Teal • Jef- frey Moore • Starting with a pre-shaped, duplicat- ed wooden bird, learn the use of burning and high speed texturing equipment to achieve wonderful carving detail on this blue wing teal. Includes de- tailed instructions for airbrushing, brush painting, all colors needed, and creating the realistic habitat base. A carving project you will treasure for many years to come. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 310 color photos • 96 pp • 978-0-7643-1794-1 • PB • $19.95 / £18.99 / 28.95 CAD Featherstrokes for Shorebirds • Beebe Hop- per • An easy way to paint realistic feathers on carvings of shore birds. By following the instruc- tions, drawings, and color photographs anyone can quickly master the rendering of realistic feathers. Ten shorebird varieties: killdeer, sanderling, ruddy turnstone, long-billed curlew, spotted sandpiper, dunlin, golden plover, avocet, red phalarope, and woodcock. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 53 color & 11 b/w photos, 48 illustrations • 96 pp • 978-0-88740-176-3 • PB • $15.95 / £14.99 / 22.95 CAD How to Carve Bellamy Eagles • Paul B. Rolfe • 293 color photos and detailed instructions teach readers step-by-step to carve three folk art Bellamy style eagles (“Portsmouth,” pilothouse, and soaring). Includes instructions in gold leaf application as a finishing detail. Patterns are provided. For wood carvers of all skill levels. • 11" × 8.5" (279 × 216 mm) • 293 color photos • 64 pp • 978-0-7643-3572-3 • PB • $16.99 / £15.99 / 23.99 CAD Powercarving Birds, Fish and Penguins: Us- ing Beautiful Hardwoods • Gene Larson • Vir- tually anyone with a band saw, rotary power tool, and a few of the most common cutting burrs can bring birds, fish, and penguins to life beautifully! Stressing simplicity of form, Gene provides step-by- step guidance, beginning with the selection of the right wood and ending with a proper finish. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • Over 300 color photos, patterns • 64 pp • 978-0-88740-565-5 • PB • $12.95 / £11.99 / 17.95 CAD Shorebird Carving • Rosalyn Daisey • Step-by- step in beautifully detailed photos, the reader is led through the carving of four shorebird projects, including the Greater Yellowlegs, the Semi-Palmat- ed Plover, the Dunlin, and the Sanderling in flight. Detailed drawings and life studies are included, as are instructions for detailing and burning. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 207 color, 611 b/w photos • 256 pp • 978-0-88740-219-7 • HC • $49.95 / £45.99 / 72.00 CAD Songbird Carving • Rosalyn Daisey • Exquisite- ly illustrated and comprehensive, this is the main source of information for realistic songbird carving. The five songbird projects include the blackcapped chickadee, tufted titmouse, American goldfinch, house wren, and catbird. Each project has step-by- step instructions, plus patterns and life studies to ensure accuracy and a beautiful result • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 183 color, 686 b/w photos • 256 pp • 978-0-88740-057-5 • HC • $45.00 / £40.99 / 64.00 CAD Songbird Carving II • Rosalyn Daisey • Follow- ing the success of the first book about songbird carving, the authors revisit the subject with five new projects. Again, the carving techniques are ex- haustively covered, illustrated with beautiful pho- tographs and drawings. The songbirds include the male and female northern cardinal, house sparrow, blue jay, and American robin. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 276 color, 664 b/w photos/83 drawings • 270 pp • 978-0-88740-119-0 • HC • $45.00 / £40.99 / 64.00 CAD Upland Game Bird Carving • Rosalyn Daisey • Rosayln moves to game birds with this volume, offering instructions for five carving projects: the male mourning dove in flight, a perched female dove, a female woodcock, her chicks, and the chal- lenging bobwhite quail. Complete instructions with generous and beautiful illustrations take the read- er through all five projects, from carving through texturing and painting. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 200+ color, 600+ b/w photos • 240 pp • 978-0-88740-349-1 • HC • $49.95 / £45.99 / 72.00 CAD Waterfowl Carving: Blue Ribbon Techniques • William Veasey • The standard book in its field, this step-by-step instruction method presents 11 different waterfowl carving projects, both simple and complex, including three flying miniatures, floating, standing, and preening ducks, and an an- tique swan. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 65 color plates/505 b/w photos/285 drawings • 272 pp • 978-0-916838-67-6 • HC • $35.00 / £31.99 / 50.00 CAD Waterfowl Painting: Blue Ribbon Techniques • William Veasey • A comprehensive book from one of America’s most successful carving teachers. Painting instructions for more than 40 species of waterfowl, along with various painting techniques, are illustrated with step-by-step photographs. Fine color photographs of the finished bird carvings and close-up details are included. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 449 color plates/124 b/w photos • 224 pp • 978-0-916838-90-4 • HC • $45.00 / £40.99 / 64.00 CAD 86 Cane Patterns for the Woodcarver • Tom Wolfe • Forever fascinated by canes, the author has always collected them and made many of his own.Walking sticks come in three basic categories: the cane, the staff or hiking stick, and the chest- high quarterstaff. Each of these types is generously represented among the 86 patterns in this book. Their designs include everything from fish, to drag- ons and birds, to beavers. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 86 patterns • 64 pp • 978-0-7643- 0372-2 • PB • $14.99 / £13.99 / 19.99 CAD Carving a Friendship Cane • Tom Wolfe • Gal- lery Contributions from his Friends in the Carica- ture Carvers of America. Carving a wonderful cane made up of many segments to be carved by one person or by a group. Every step illustrated. Carving contributors: J. Price, P. Ortel, S. Prescott, H. Schmit- zen, R.Wetherbee, B. Travis, D. Dunham, D. Stetson, K. Morrill, J. Wannamaker, T. Haase, D. Raine, M. Kaisersatt, D. Rasmussen, H. Refsal, H. Enlow, C. Bolton, G. Batte, D. Hajny, P. LeClair, and R. Landen. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 250 color photos, gallery • 64 pp • 978-0-88740-891-5 • PB • $12.95 / £11.99 / 19.95 CAD Carving Animal Canes & Walking Sticks • Frank C. Russell • More than 180 color photos and concise text take the reader through all the tools, techniques, and individual steps for carving life-like animal head canes with power tools. From choos- ing the blank and setting the eyes to texturing the fur and painting the finished handle, you learn all the steps. Fifteen different animal patterns are in- cluded. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 174 color & 22 b/w photos • 80 pp • 978-0-7643-2381-2 • PB • $14.99 / £13.99 / 19.99 CAD Carving Canes & Walking Sticks with Tom Wolfe • Tom Wolfe • A Tom Wolfe book devot- ed to canes and walking sticks. Patterns for elev- en figures are included, with two of them carved step-by-step. The carver can follow the color pho- tographs of each step using the concise captions. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 200 color photos, patterns, gallery • 48 pp • 978-0-88740-587-7 • PB • $12.99 / £11.99 / 17.99 CAD Carving Fancy Walking Sticks • Tom Wolfe • The knob of the walking stick provides the carv- er with many possibilities. In this book Tom Wolfe carves a woodsman’s head. He takes the reader through the process from the beginning of the carving, to the attachment of the head to the shaft, and the decoration of the shaft. Each step is illustrated with a color photograph and a clear explanation. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 200 color photos • 64 pp • 978-0-7643-1565-7 • PB • $14.95 / £13.99 / 19.95 CAD Carving Wildfowl Canes and Walking Sticks with Power • Frank C. Russell • More than 145 clear color photographs illustrate each step re- quired to create beautiful, lifelike waterfowl cane handles with power tools. Patterns are provided for fifteen different cane handle projects, ranging from the American Flamingo to the Wood Duck. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 148 color photos, 32 line drawings • 80 pp • 978-0-7643-1589-3 • PB • $14.99 / £13.99 / 19.99 CAD Creative Canes & Walking Sticks: Carving with Tom Wolfe • Tom Wolfe • A brand new book from Tom Wolfe with more original patterns and different techniques to produce creative canes and walking sticks. Also included are designs for sword canes. As always, each step is clearly illus- trated in full color and patterns are presented to aid the carver in his or her own creation. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 250 color photos, 11 patterns • 64 pp • 978-0-88740-885-4 • PB • $12.95 / £11.99 / 17.95 CAD Router Canes • Dale Power • With a combi- nation of simple instructions and more than 220 clear color photographs, Dale Power takes readers through the process of creating beautiful wooden traveling canes with power tools. Directions are provided for the creation of cane handles, the installation or creation of screw mounts joining the two cane shaft segments, and for staining the completed canes. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 225+ color photos • 64 pp • 978-0-7643-1523-7 • PB • $14.95 / £13.99 / 19.95 CAD Sculpting Cane Handles • Nicolo Scariano • More than 160 clear color photos detail the mak- ing and provide examples of different cane forms produced. Among the handles featured are exam- ples in zebra, Colorplay, and holly woods. In form the handles are also varied, including examples in the female form, as birds, animals, lip handles, and low relief decoration. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 169 images • 64 pp • 978-0-7643-2823-7 • PB • $15.00 / £13.99 / 20.00 CAD Tom Wolfe Carves Fancy Canes • Tom Wolfe • Tom Wolfe guides the reader through the carv- ing of a particularly clever cane: a fancy bird that doubles as a nutcracker. He explains carving, paint- ing, and finishing the piece, as well as fitting the handle to the spindle. The step-by-step instructions are clear enough for the beginner and advanced carver alike. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 162 color photos • 48 pp • 978-0-7643-1343-1 • PB • $14.95 / £13.99 / 19.95 CAD Tom Wolfe Carves Spirit Canes • Tom Wolfe • From a sapling straight from the hillside to a charming cane, every step of carving is explained. Tom begins with prepping the sapling, helps the reader think through the design of the spirit that will emerge, and explains the various carving tech- niques that are needed to do the work. Finally he shows the painting and finishing steps, including ways to conceal unexpected problems. Each step is clearly photographed in color. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 219 color photos • 64 pp • 978-0- 7643-3051-3 • PB • $14.99 / £13.99 / 19.99 CAD CARVING: CANES & WALKING STICKS