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Carving Figure Caricatures in the Ozark Style (Dover Crafts: Woodworking) by Harold R. Enlow; Wade Radford is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Wood carving in the Ozark style is easy and fun when you follow professional carver Harold Enlow's directions. Using figures he has carved for his own collection in Dogpatch, Arkansas, he gives instructions and illustrations that cover every angle of carving figure caricatures. He tells you how to go about selecting and preparing the wood, selecting the proper tools, sharpening the tools, using a mallet and band saw, roughing out a figure from a block, carving a head and face, and finishing your carvings. Then he presents explicit instructions for ten projects: a Missouri mule, a mountaineer, a hobo, a cowboy, a hill woman, Rufus and Sadie, Bootsie the cow, a banjo player, "Ozark Trail's End," and "Revenooers." Each project is illustrated in diagram form (front and usually profile) to make it easy to draw on the wood, and there are photographs of each completed project and some in intermediate stages. The general instructions are also illustrated copiously, and there are photographs of other completed carvings from the author's collection — a total of 22 drawings and 47 photographs in all. Whether you are an accomplished carver or just beginning, you will find these caricatures a d

Who reads Carving Figure Caricatures in the Ozark Style (Dover Crafts: Woodworking)?

Author

Harold R. Enlow; Wade Radford

Publisher

Dover Publications : Made available through hoopla

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781306362382

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Crafts & Hobbies, Fiction, Lifestyle

Rating

4.5 / 5 (185 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14