FEATURES

Celebrating 15 Years of Craftsmanship in Wood

GM's Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild
By John Jacobus
Carving out a career in the design world--1950's style

Recreating a Masterpiece
By Jeff Jones
Turn-of-the-century table inspires a life-long love of carving, three generations later

The Netsuke Carvings of Cornel Schneider
Detailed carvings demonstrate a love of nature

Antler Sculpture by Bill Matz
Fascinating medium proceduces unique carvings

PROJECTS

Carved Garden Chair
By Jan Oegema
Customize this sturdy chair with your own relief carved designs

Chip Carved Landscape
By Barry McKenzie
Free-form chip carving enhances natural wood grain

Realistic Rabbit
By Leah Wachter
Texturing techniques bring this adorable rabbit to life

Carving the Ball and Claw
By Mike Burton
Sequential carving helps you duplicate this traditional furniture element

Native American Bust
By Mark Gargac
Portraying character with distinctive facial features

Hand Carved Classics
By Kivel Weaver
Practice your knife carving with chain links and a ball-in-cage

Cottonwood Bark Viking
By Rick Jensen
Rugged features make this warrior the perfect subject for bark carving

Carving Habitat: Twig
By Kenny Vermillion
Power carve highly detailed branches tailored to showcase

Relief Carve a Whimsical House
By Jim Cline
Power tools speed up the carving process and add unique texture

TECHNIQUES

The Design Process
By Marv Kaisersatt
Taking a caricature from concept to completion

Setting Up Shop
By Chris Pye
A carver needs more than sharp tools; the workspace, bench, and lighting are equally important

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Jan Oegema lives in Bowmanville, Ont., Canada. For more of his work, visit www.janscarvingstudio.com.

Mike Burton has been a professional woodworker for more than 40 years. He opened a woodworking shop in Ogden, Uthah in 1973 with his father and brother and later became the sole owner of this business, manufacturing a full line of furniture and custom wood products including guitar bodies and propellers for ultralight aircraft. After transferring the business to his sons, Mike put his energy into writing and is the author of three other books, Simple Marquetry (Sterling), Veneering a Foundation Course (Sterling) and Architectural Carving Revised (Sterling).

Rick Jensen got his first taste of carving growing up along the Missouri River bottoms in North Dakota. His father supplied him with a pocketknife at the age of seven. Whittling on sticks started what would become a lifetime of woodcarving. Other artistic endeavors of Rick's include antler carving, bone carving and stone carving.

Marv is retired after 29 years of teaching junior high math. He lives in an upstairs apartment in Faribault, Minnesota. Marv began carving seriously in 1976 and has been teaching caricature carving at Ivan Whillock's Studio since 1985. He specializes in carving multi-figure scenes from a single block of basswood. His figures depict 'ordinary folks doing ordinary things in extraordinary ways”.

Marv is a founding member of CCA. He teaches several week-long seminars each year in Faribault. His awards are many and include honors from the International Woodcarvers Congress in Davenport, Iowa where he has won 'Best of Caricatures” in 9 of 10 years, the Upper Midwest Woodcarvers Expo in Blue Earth, Minnesota and the Nordic Fest Woodcarving Exhibition in Decorah, Iowa.

Chris Pye has been a professional woodcarver for than 25 years and is a member of the Master Carvers Association. His work is done mainly to commission, with clients including HRH the Prince of Wales. It ranges from architectural moldings to figure carving, furniture to lettering, bedheads and fireplaces. He has also written extensively about woodcarving for several magazines.