A Wood Carver's Book of Project Ideas
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If you are like me, you probably have already leafed through the pages of this book to get an idea of what it is all about. If such is the case, you don't need me to tell you what you've just seen. I would, however, like to say a few words about this book ahead of your really digging into it. First, I want to emphasize THE INTENT AND FOCUS behind it. Building on that, I
want to offer some preliminary CARVING SUGGESTIONS that have served me well in one way or another with every carving you see on the following pages of this book.
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About the Book
If your woodcarving enjoyment sometimes finds you searching for an idea on what your next carving effort might be, and you need helpers on how to approach and accomplish it, this book is the one you’ve been looking for!
A first hand account by a man, who now in his mid-eighties, who spent his first career of over thirty years in newspaper advertising layout and design.
About the Author
The third of his parents’ four children, Dick was born in New Jersey a month ahead of the "crash" of 1929 - the beginning of the Great Depression. The event precipitated his family's moving to central Indiana where he lived in his widowed grandmother's home until his graduation from high school in 1947. In 1951, he graduated with a degree in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. Marrying his college sweetheart a year later, he spent nearly three years in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. Following his service, he began a 30 year career which found him as an art director and ultimately principal in a small firm that published newspaper advertising layouts and designs; a monthly publication that served nearly 700 daily newspapers in the United States and Canada. *Today, he and his spouse of sixty-plus years bask in the gift of their eight children, nineteen grandchildren and fourteen
great-grandchildren.