Advanced Scrimshaw Techniques

Advanced Scrimshaw Techniques  80pp  Learn techniques every scrimshaw carver needs for true proficiency in this traditional art form. Over 130 clear color photos illustrate ivory carving with hand and power tools, color and power engraving and...

Hobby & Craft Guide to Airbrushing

Hobby & Craft Guide to Airbrushing  Hobby & Craft Guide to Airbrushing is packed with information you need to to select and use the perfect airbrush of your choice. Learn how to properly clean and assemble your new airbrush. Create the...

Airbrushing Techniques for Custom Painting

Airbrushing Techniques for Custom Painting Airbrushing Techniques for Custom Painting Volume 11 will help you develope some new skills. This book is packed with information from start to finish. You'll learn different techniques on prepping for paint...

Carving Creative Walking Sticks and Canes

Carving Creative Walking Sticks and Canes Carving Creative Walking Sticks and Canes has thirteen projects for you to carve from wood. Author Paul Purnell guides you through the carvings with step-by-step illustared photos for the intermediate to...

Start to Paint with Acrylics

Start to Paint with Acrylics Start to Paint with Acrylics shares the techniques you need to create stunning paintings. Author Arnold Lowry demonstrates with illustrated photographs. Learn popular mediums and explore different techniques from washes to...

Compendium of Acrylic Painting Techniques

Compendium of Acrylic Painting Techniques Compendium of Acrylic Painting Techniques is aimed at all painters, from beginners to the more advanced. Author Gill Barron provides expert advice on all aspects of acrylic painting: what to do, and what...

The Complete Pyrography Book

As the author says, "If you are able to sit at a table and co-ordinate one good eye with one good arm, pyrography, the craft of burning designs on wood, is an art you can master." Stephen Poole's book is probably the most detailed and comprehensive yet...

20-Minute Whittling Projects - Tom Hindes

Learn the fast and simple way to whittle in this fun introduction to woodcarving. Discover how to whittle in less time while you have more fun! One of the joys of whittling with a pocket knife is that you can do it just about anywhere. You don't need any...

TOM WOLFE CARVES FANCY CANES

48pp By Tom Wolfe who guides the reader throught the carving of a particularly clever cane, a fancy bird that doubles as a nutcracker. He explains carving, painting, and finishing the piece, as well as fitting the handle to the spindle. The step-by-step

Walking Sticks with Values

244pp By Elrich Klever (Reference) The history of the cane, that often snobbish yet, useful item, is explored in detail in this informative book. The author, documents the incredible mulitude of canes, arranging them by fashion and period. Their uses

Sick Making: A Complete Course

Sick Making: A Complete Course 160pp. 22 sticks offer the stick maker a diverse selection. Learn to choose or grow you own wood, season, shank and ultimately finish your project. These projects reflect a diversity that include knob handles, cardigan...

STICKMAKING HANDBOOK(REVISED EDITION)- JONES & GEORGE

pp 144 photos 237. The author's uncle cultivated his interest in making sticks and encouraged him to enter his work in local craft shows. He makes a wide range of sticks, but it is his specialities – horn crooks and Cardigan walking sticks – which...