The Urban Woodsman

Author : Max Bainbridge
Publisher : Kyle Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780857835857

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The Urban Woodsman by Max Bainbridge Pdf

Hand carving is easy, satisfying and therapeutic when guided by Max Bainbridge. Create your own unique pieces and carve with confidence thanks to detailed information on tools, cutting techniques and clear step-by-step photography accompanying each project. Start with basic spoons, cooking spoons and spatulas, before moving onto butter knives, chopping boards and small bowls, with only a few simple tools required. Max also advises on the perfect finish for your projects - how to sand, ebonise, scorch and texture surfaces as well as waxing and oiling your new creations. Whether you are a novice or an experienced carver, this book will inspire you to make something that you will be proud of.

Author : Joshua Vogel
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781452143842

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The Artful Wooden Spoon by Joshua Vogel Pdf

The acclaimed sculptor and furniture designer teaches readers how to make their own hand-carved wooden spoons in this beautifully illustrated volume. Marvels of craftsmanship, beauty, and function, Joshua Vogel’s sculptural kitchen tools are coveted far and wide. In The Artful Wooden Spoon, Vogel shares more than one hundred gorgeous pieces from his workshop gallery, providing rich visual inspiration as he explains the principles behind handcrafting spoons. Vogel offers simple instructions and step-by-step photographs that allow readers to make their own kitchen keepsakes. No expertise is necessary, and very few tools are required. With more than 225 photographs of Vogel’s stunning specimens, The Artful Wooden Spoon is a compelling invitation to explore an age-old art.

Author : Max Bainbridge
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781683350842

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Heirloom Wood by Max Bainbridge Pdf

This illustrated woodworking guide combines traditional techniques with contemporary design for step-by-step projects and finishing techniques. Heirloom Wood is a love letter to the lasting beauty of wood through simple woodworking projects. Max Bainbridge teaches you how to identify wood types, source timber, and set up a basic toolbox, then offers step-by-step carving and cutting techniques for making your own pieces. With little experience and very few tools, you’ll learn to create hand-carved bowls, cutting boards, spoons, knives, and spatulas, perfect for adding a touch of the handmade to your home. With further advice on finishing your projects—how to sand, ebonize, scorch, and texture the surfaces, as well as wax and oil your new kitchen creations—Heirloom Wood shows you how to imbue each object with a tangible history visible through the maker’s mark. With beautiful photography and clear how-to instruction, Heirloom Wood gives you everything you need to create timeless kitchen keepsakes to be passed down from generation to generation.

Author : Ben Law
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780007498734

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Woodsman by Ben Law Pdf

Ben Law’s incredible sense of the land and his respect for age old traditions offers a wonderful insight into the life of Prickly Nut Wood.

Author : Barn The Spoon
Publisher : Random House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780753545966

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Spon by Barn The Spoon Pdf

'No one in Britain knows more about crafting a spoon from greenwood than Barn The Spoon.' Guardian 'London's most famous and charismatic spoon whittler ... King of the whittlers.' Sunday Telegraph Barn The Spoon, as he’s affectionately known is a rare master craftsman in the art of spoon carving. In this book he generously shares his extraordinary skill, gentle philosophy and his life’s work – designing and carving beautiful spoons that are both a joy to use and hold. The simple, ordinary spoon is part of our everyday lives, intimately entwined with the acts of eating and socialising, from stirring our first cup of coffee to scraping the last bit of pudding from the bowl. And who doesn't like to spoon in bed? Barn’s spoons will take you on a journey into the new wood culture, from understanding the relationship between wood, the raw material and its majestic origins in our trees and woodland, to the workshop and the axe block, and into your own kitchen. Barn will show you how to use the axe and knife, from how they should feel in your hand to honing the perfect edge when carving your own spoons. Featuring sixteen unique designs in the four main categories of spoon – eating, serving, cooking and measuring spoons, Barn takes you through the nuances of their making, how each design is informed by its function at the table or in the kitchen, and the key skills you will learn – such as creating octagonal handles, manipulating grain patterns and mastering bent branches. Beautiful photography will inspire and act as a blue-print to help perfect your technique.

Author : Maurice Manning
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0151010498

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A Companion for Owls by Maurice Manning Pdf

This collection of highly original narrative poems is written in the voice of frontiersman Daniel Boone and captures all the beauty and struggle of nascent America. We follow the progression of Daniel Boone's life, a life led in war and in the wilderness, and see the birth of a new nation. We track the bountiful animals and the great, undisturbed rivers. We stand beside Boone as he buries his brother, then his wife, and finds comfort in his friendship with a slave named Derry. Praised for his originality, Maurice Manning is an exciting new voice in American poetry. The darkest place I've ever been did not require a name. It seemed to be a gathering place for the lint of the world. The bottom of a hollow beneath two ridges, sunk like a stone. The water was surely old, the dregs of some ancient sea, but purified by time, like a man made better by his years, his old hurts absorbed into his soul, his losses like a spring in his breast. -from "Born Again"

Author : Jackson Pearce
Publisher : Hachette Children's
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781444902235

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Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce Pdf

The story of Scarlett and Rosie March, two highly-skilled sisters who have been hunting Fenris (werewolves) - who prey on teen girls - since Scarlett lost her eye years ago while defending Rosie in an attack. Scarlett lives to destroy the Fenris, and she and Rosie lure them in with red cloaks (a colour the wolves can't resist), though Rosie hunts more out of debt to her sister than drive. But things seem to be changing. The wolves are getting stronger and harder to fight, and there has been a rash of news reports about countless teenage girls being brutally murdered in the city. Scarlett and Rosie soon discover the truth: wolves are banding together in search of a Potential Fenris - a man tainted by the pack but not yet fully changed. Desperate to find the Potential to use him as bait for a massive werewolf extermination, the sisters move to the city with Silas, a young woodsman and long time family friend who is deadly with an axe. Meanwhile, Rosie finds herself drawn to Silas and the bond they share not only drives the sisters apart, but could destroy all they've worked for.

Author : Wille Sundqvist
Publisher : Fine Woodworking
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 1627106731

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Swedish Carving Techniques by Wille Sundqvist Pdf

Provides instructions for selecting and using knives and axes to make traditional Swedish woodworking projects such as carved spoons and ladles.

Author : EJ Osborne
Publisher : Quadrille Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1849497192

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Spoon Carving by EJ Osborne Pdf

This book demonstrates how with three basic tools you can shape a tree into an honest utensil. As well as information on tree identification to source fresh green wood, EJ Osborne gives advice on harvesting and storing wood. She explains how to use each of the tools safely when working the carving techniques. Once confident with the woodworking skills, you progress to the projects were full instructions are given for making five utensil types, starting with the simplest spatula, cooking spoon, and hanging jar spoon, before moving on to a coffee scoop and graduating on to the bent-branch spoon.

Author : John Connolly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743298858

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The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly Pdf

A 12-year-old boy, mourning the death of his mother, takes refuge in the myths and fairytales she always loved--and finds that his reality and a fantasy world start to meld.

Author : Betsy Urban
Publisher : Orchard Books (NY)
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0531333108

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Waiting for Deliverance by Betsy Urban Pdf

In 1783, orphaned fourteen-year-old Livy and her cousin Ephraim are taken in by a woodsman and his family, including a young Seneca man who changes Livy's attitudes toward the Indians she was raised to hate and fear.

Author : David Western
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781607658801

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Great Book of Spoon Carving Patterns by David Western Pdf

Great Book of Spoon Carving Patterns is perfect for carvers of any skill level to learn the traditional art form of carving lovespoons to express their romantic emotions! Featuring 5 bowl patterns and 75 original handle patterns to mix and match for hundreds of customizable carving designs, this book details the origins of each romantic wooden spoon and what they symbolize, from first date and courting spoons to wedding spoons.

Author : Abigail Booth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : Dye plants
ISBN : 0857833952

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The Wild Dyer by Abigail Booth Pdf

`By teaching you the foundations of natural dyeing, and guiding you through the simple stitch techniques, this book will allow you to dip in and out of projects while learning how to forage for and grow your own dye plants.' In The Wild Dyer, Abigail Booth demystifies the `magic' of natural dyeing and shows how to use the results to stunning effect in 15 exquisite patchwork and stitch projects, including a drawstring forager's bag, an apron, samplers, cushions and a reversible patchwork blanket. Focusing on how to grow or gather your own dyeing materials - from onion and avocado skins to chamomile and comfrey, nettles and acorns - as well as scouring, mordanting (using fixative) and setting up a dye vat, Abigail explains how to create effective dyes. And once you have them, how you can produce beautiful, contemporary textiles that can then be used to create projects that build on your skills.

Author : Horace Kephart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Camping
ISBN : WISC:89074953696

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Camping and Woodcraft by Horace Kephart Pdf

Author : Untamed
Publisher : Urban Renaissance
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645560913

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Never Again, No More 2 by Untamed Pdf

As Lucinda, LaMeka, Charice, and Trinity struggle to turn their lives around, they each hit a crossroads. Despite their surmounting troubles, they still hope for a better life. But what will they sacrifice for a chance at a life they've always dreamed of? And at what costs? It won't be easy, and the consequences can be detrimental, and in some cases, even deadly. Facing your fears can come at a price, and these ladies come face to face with their worst nightmares. No matter what they decide, changes are on the horizon for all of them. They'll find out that getting back to themselves will require some tough decisions. Will they decide to succumb to their situations, or will they learn how to truly say Never Again, No More?