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Stickmaking Handbook
Clive George
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Description for Stickmaking Handbook
Paperback. Stickmaking Handbook is a fantastic introduction to the wonderful world of creating a wide range of traditional walking sticks, market sticks and crooks; there are 21 projects in total. Stickmaking Handbook also discusses seasoning timbers, shaping, carving and shanking handles as well as a wide range of colouring and finishing methods. Num Pages: 120 pages, 200 full colour photographs, 80 illustrations. BIC Classification: WFL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 149 x 12. Weight in Grams: 270.
Stickmaking Handbook is a fantastic introduction to the wonderful world of creating a wide range of traditional walking sticks, market sticks and crooks; there are 21 projects in total. Suitable timbers are covered in detail as well as alternative materials such as ram's horn, antler, buffalo and cow's horn. Techniques and tips on straightening sticks, fitting handles and fixing a ferrule are thoroughly explained. Stickmaking Handbook also discusses seasoning timbers, shaping, carving and shanking handles as well as a wide range of colouring and finishing methods.
Stickmaking Handbook is a fantastic introduction to the wonderful world of creating a wide range of traditional walking sticks, market sticks and crooks; there are 21 projects in total. Suitable timbers are covered in detail as well as alternative materials such as ram's horn, antler, buffalo and cow's horn. Techniques and tips on straightening sticks, fitting handles and fixing a ferrule are thoroughly explained. Stickmaking Handbook also discusses seasoning timbers, shaping, carving and shanking handles as well as a wide range of colouring and finishing methods.
Product Details
Publisher
Guild of Master Craftsman Publications Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
269g
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
East Sussex, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784940980
SKU
V9781784940980
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Clive George
Andrew Jones has spent his life as a farmer in West Wales. An uncle cultivated his interest in making sticks and encouraged him to enter his work in local craft shows. Andrew specialises in making horn crooks and Cardigan walking sticks. Clive George has had a life-long interest in stickmaking and a move to a small holding in Wales led ... Read more
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