The Book of Wood Carving
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In answer to complaints from students that there was no concise, simple text on wood carving, Charles Marshall Sayers, a nationally famous teacher and craftsman, wrote this book. It is still the finest book for the beginning student in wood sculpture. In clear, straightforward language, Sayers carefully guides the reader through the fundamentals — what tools and materials to use, how to use them. There are lessons and designs for incised carving, relief carving, and other cutting methods. Sayers discusses woods suitable for carving, stains and finishes, preliminary and advanced methods of preparing woods for finishing, even how to make a workbench.
The 34 illustrated designs for over 34 projects encourage the student to build slowly and methodically a sound, practical technique while creating objects of beauty and utility. All of the projects employ only four tools (one straight parting tool, three different sizes of straight gouges). With this book you can make panels for cabinets, chests, and doors; borders; table aprons; chair and bench rails; circular mirror frame; wall bracket with shelf; bookends; rectangular mirror frame; footstools; guest-book covers; mirror frame with half-circle top; holy water font; and doors.
Though The Book of Wood Carving is meant for the beginner, experienced carvers will find that Sayers' original conceptions and designs will increase their own pleasure and skill. "Stimulating both by spicy text and large photographs showing every point in processes described . . . [Illustrated with] designs of actual work by the author — a famous teacher and craftsman — and his students and apprentices." — Books, New York Herald Tribune.
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The Book of Wood Carving - Charles Marshall Sayers
DOVER BOOKS ON WOODWORKING AND CARVING
THE AMERICAN BOY’S HANDY BOOK: TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY CLASSIC OF CRAFTS AND ACTIVITIES, Daniel Beard. (0-486-43138-X)
SHELTERS, SHACKS, AND SHANTIES: THE CLASSIC GUIDE TO BUILDING WILDERNESS SHELTERS, D. C. Beard. (0-486-43747-7)
THE BEGINNER’S HANDBOOK OF WOODCARVING, Charles Beiderman and William Johnston. (0-486-25687-1)
MAKING BIRDHOUSES: EASY AND ADVANCED PROJECTS, Gladstone Califf. (0-486-44183-0)
THE COMPLETE BOOK OF BIRDHOUSE CONSTRUCTION FOR WOODWORKERS, Scott D. Campbell. (0-486-24407-5)
EASY-TO-MAKE BIRD FEEDERS FOR WOODWORKERS, Scott D. Campbell. (0-486-25847-5)
THE BUILT-UP SHIP MODEL, Charles G. Davis. (0-486-26174-3)
THE SHIP MODEL BUILDER’S ASSISTANT, Charles G. Davis. (0-486-25584-0)
SHIP MODELS: HOW TO BUILD THEM, Charles G. Davis. (0-486-25170-5)
CARVING FIGURE CARICATURES IN THE OZARK STYLE, Harold L. Enlow. (0-486-23151-8)
HOW TO CARVE FOLK FIGURES AND A CIGAR STORE INDIAN, Harold L. Enlow. (0-486-23748-6)
CARVING REALISTIC BIRDS, H. D. Green. (0-486-23484-3)
PATTERNS AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR CARVING AUTHENTIC BIRDS, H. D. Green. (0-486-24222-6)
MANUAL OF TRADITIONAL WOOD CARVING, Paul Hasluck (ed.). (0-486-23489-4)
CARVING BIRDS OF PREY, Anthony Hillman. (0-486-27305-9)
CARVING FAVORITE SONGBIRDS, Anthony Hillman. (0-486-25358-9)
CARVING POPULAR BIRDS, Anthony Hillman. (0-486-26136-0)
CARVING MINIATURE DUCK DECOYS, Anthony Hillman. (0-486-24936-0)
PAINTING DUCK DECOYS: 24 FULL-COLOR PLATES AND COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS, Anthony Hillman. (0-486-24810-0)
PAINTING POPULAR DUCK DECOYS, Anthony Hillman. (0-486-26100-X)
PAINTING SHOREBIRD DECOYS: 16 FULL-COLOR PLATES AND COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS, Anthony Hillman. (0-486-25349-X)
EASY CARPENTRY PROJECTS FOR CHILDREN, Jerome Leavitt. (0-486-25057-1)
ACTION WHIRLIGIGS: 25 EASY-TO-DO PROJECTS, Anders S. Lunde. (0-486-42745-5)
EASY-TO-MAKE WHIRLIGIGS, Anders S. Lunde. (0-486-28965-6)
WHIMSICAL WHIRLIGIGS AND HOW TO MAKE THEM, Anders S. Lunde. (0-486-41233-4)
RESTORING ANTIQUE FURNITURE: A COMPLETE GUIDE, Richard A. Lyons. (0-486-40954-6)
HOW TO BUILD WOODEN BOATS: WITH 16 SMALL-BOAT DESIGNS, Edwin Monk. (0-486-2 7313-X)
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FRONT DOOR OF THE SAYERS’ HOME
Copyright © 1942 by The Caxton Printers,
Ltd. Renewed 1970 by Cecily Sayers.
Copyright © 1978 by Cecily Sayers.
All rights reserved under Pan American and
International Copyright Conventions.
This Dover edition, first published in 1978, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by The Caxton Printers, Ltd., Caldwell, Idaho, in 1942 under the title The Book of Wood Carving: A Text for Beginners. A new Preface has been written and various textual emendations have been made especially for this edition.
9780486141077
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number:
78-52156
Manufactured in the United States of America
Dover Publications, Inc.
31 East 2nd Street
Mineola, N.Y. 11501
Table of Contents
DOVER BOOKS ON WOODWORKING AND CARVING
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface to the Dover Edition
Dedication
Preface to the First Edition
Foreword
Introduction
Position of Hands in Holding Tools
Tools
Incised Carving
Relief Carving
Method for Cutting Design No. 10
Method for Cutting Designs Nos. 11, 12, 13, and 14
Design No. 15
Design No. 16
Design No. 17
Design No. 18
Design No. 19
Design No. 20
Design No. 21
Design No. 22
Design No. 23
Design No. 24
Design No. 25
Design No. 26
Design No. 27
Design No. 28A
Design No. 28B
Design No. 29
Design No. 30
Design No. 31
Design No. 32
Design No. 33
Design No. 34
Doors and Their Treatment
To Make Work Bench
Woods Suitable for Wood Carving
Preliminary Method of Preparing Woods for Finishing
Advanced Methods of Preparing Woods for Finishing
Stains and Finishes
Machine Carving
Preface to the Dover Edition
CHARLES Marshall Sayers was born on December 21, 1892, in Kirkcudbright, Scotland, one of the oldest seaports in Britain and the birthplace of John Paul Jones. He was the tenth of thirteen children. When he was seven his father, James Charles Sayers, bought him some wood-carving tools. Since there was no one to instruct him, he learned by trial and error, aided by an inborn sensitivity to what could be done with these tools. Within a short time the feel of the tools in his hands told him that wood carving was to become his prime and lasting interest.
When he was thirteen his family moved to The Stell, a property outside of Kirkcudbright near the River Dee. Charles refused to attend the Academy, the next school in line for him. Instead he apprenticed himself to his father, who, although not a wood-carver, was a master craftsman in woodwork. His training progressed through the various forms of woodwork to fine-furniture making. This instruction was interspersed with boat building, Kirkcudbright being an active port for fishermen.
Charles was fourteen when his relief-carved portrait of the world champion Clydesdale Baron’s Pride received a first award in an art exhibition in Kirkcudbright. At that time he also had his first experience in teaching, his first student being one of his former school teachers.
Several years later he went to Glasgow to attend the Royal Technical College, specializing and winning two awards in furniture, design and detail. He also attended the School of Art, where he studied sculpture and figure drawing. To enable himself to continue his studies he worked in the shipyards. When the First World War broke out he enlisted in the Royal Field Artillery, becoming