Whittling Country Folk, Revised Edition: 12 Caricature Projects with Personality (Fox Chapel Publishing) Woodcarving, Painting, and Staining Instructions, Patterns, and Front, Back, and Side Views

This book provides lots of plans and very good instructions for those starting to carve figures. It also has some excellent directions and instructions on painting and sealing those that you have completed. While detailed instructions are only provided with one figure, with a little thought the approach can be applied to the other figures. As an improvement it would have been nice for the follow on figures to provide a general approach to each figure, e.g., hat first, block nose, rough pants, etc. It would be a big help to us beginners. With respect to paint colors, I would forgo the "flesh" color that the author recommends and just leave the flesh colored surfaces natural wood. The natural wood color looks much better when sealed. BTW - To use these plans effectively you really need a band saw with a 3 inch opening. Instead of making templates for each figure, I just a copy of the plan, cut out the front facing figure, use spray contact cement to adhere it to the wood blank, and cut it out. Then double side tape the cuts off back on, flip the blank 90 degrees, and glue on the side view of the pattern, and then cut that.

Well written and illustrated.

I bought this as a gift for my elderly father who enjoys working with wood. An of course I bought the other things that go along with this Hobby. He enjoys this book says its very helpful to understand and has actually accomplish some of the figurines in book they came out very nicely. I only recommend for those who can follow the instructions can be a little complicated so you would have to have a person who is somewhat experience with wood carving or wood work.

Very interesting figures , the only thing i found for a beginner is the techniquePhotos are a little difficult to make out, but again there is likely only so much you can show on pictures.

May not be Tutorial for beginners, but part of the fun is whimsical creativity. The internet is tutoring, stop and rewind the videos, after you do a few lil folk, you get a little better at whittling/carving, and look at the book, you wouldn't use it that much once you learn the basics anyway. good to make changes to the patterns. I don't have a band saw, so I'll take longer to rough out the blocks of wood. The basswood blocks are great for practice and the sizes are just about right.

Got what i was looking for, patterns

It’s a great way to make whittling fun

Very good instructions good book to have. happy very.

Informative book, however the photographs are somewhat difficult to follow. Maybe it’s me....

Es macht Spaß die Figuren nachzuschnitzen.Besonders nett ist, dass jede Figur einen Namen hat und mit individuellem Charakter und Familienbezug beschrieben wird. Die Anleitung ist nicht schwierig aber für absolute Anfänger doch etwas zu herausfordernd. Ich werde mir auf alle Fälle weitere Bücher von Mike Shipley zulegen.

What a great book easy to follow and the patterns are great

1 personnage détaillé sculpture + peinture et photos plus peinture et "patterns" pour les autresDimension des bois environ 6 cm et des longueurs différentes pour chaque personnage. Prévoir les bonnes dimensions de morceaux de bois pour faciliter la réalisation et l'utilisation des patterns. Les modèles indiqués sont à agrandir pour certains ce qui complique leur utilisation.Le rendu n'est jamais exactement comme sur les photos mais c'est normal, cela vient de l'apprenti "sculpteur" que je suis et cela rend les objets unique. Au final content de mon achat.

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