Hand carving your own walking stick / David Stehly.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Learn to carve beautiful, wildlife-inspired walking sticks with this informative and easy-to-follow book. Hand Carving Your Own Walking Stick includes useful information on harvesting and curing wood, plus advice on getting the best finishing results with paints, stains, varnishes, acrylics, and woodburning. Award-winning woodcarver David Stehly walks the reader through the entire process of making artisan-quality sticks, staffs, and canes that are as functional as they are beautiful. Twelve step-by-step wood carving projects and ready-to-use patterns make it easy to get started in this relaxing and rewarding hobby. An inspirational color photo gallery illustrates many of the author's spectacular projects, including sticks adorned with lifelike lizards, magnificent bighorn sheep, leaping trout, and many more. A special focus is on carving realistic snakes that wrap around the sticks, all carved from a single piece of wood.
Includes index.
Hiking stick, walking stick, or cane? -- Gallery -- Harvesting walking stick blanks -- Carving tools -- Holding the wood while you carve -- Wood grain -- Carving the shaft -- Finishing your sticks -- The peregrine falcon walking stick -- The corn snake walking stick -- The black snake walking stick -- Red-tailed hawk -- Cooper hawk -- American caduceus -- Garter snake -- Aspen colubrid snake -- California mountain kingsnake -- Mexican kingsnake -- Dragon -- Peeper frog -- Celtic cross -- Timber wolf -- Bengal tiger.