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Book List Please note: We cannot give refunds for any returned books - for obvious reasons! |
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"Stick Making - a Complete Course" Book by Andrew Jones and Clive George. No longer available - it has been replaced by the new version below Note: The smaller version of this book called "Sickmaking Handbook" has almost identical information but the templates are only 3/4 full size. I do not personally think the smaller verion is as much use as you have to find some way of making the templates full size! |
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"Stickmaking - a Complete Course" Revised edition BEST SELLER! Book by Andrew Jones and Clive George. The best book on our craft I've seen - covers everything you need to get started - cutting your owns sticks, straightening them, templates (full size) for various handle shapes, carving bird and animal heads, shaping horn handles etc. I wish I'd written it myself! I can highly recommend it for beginners and those with a few sticks behind them already. Great present for anyone who would like to start making sticks.
This is a newer version - better pictures and more information on some subjects, particularly stick carving and horn bending. The original version has been out for ten years and was in need of updating - this is definitely an improvement on an already very good book!
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NEW "Make your own Walking Sticks" How to craft canes and staffs from
rustic to fancy, by Charles R. Self This American book shows how to make fairly simple sticks - not the traditional British ones you find in the book Stick Making - a Complete Course. It has lots of patterns to copy for carved sticks and carved handles and a very useful section on turning sticks on a lathe. 128 pages, full colour throughout. £11.99 |
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"How to bend Buffalo Horn" Small home-made booklet by Keith Pickering. A detailed step-by-step guide showing you the 'easy' way to make Buffalo Horn handles. It includes colour photo's of the horn-bending jig (on sale on the Horn DIY page) in use - with advice on how best to use it. OR you can download it as a "virtual booklet" from the web site at: |
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"Carving Birds and Beasts" Book by various authors - A detailed step-by-step guide showing you how to carve birds and animals. One topic covered, in some detail, is the carving of dog heads on sticks!
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NEW "Carving Nature" An excellent book for anyone wanting to progress to top-level carving of birds and animals. Great templates and instructions for detailed carving of birds, mammals and reptiles. One section shows how to carve a one-piece walking stick with a duck as the handle and also a carved wooden crook with squirrel running down the nose.
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"The Little Book of
Whittling" A fantastic soft back book that shows how to use "green" wood, freshly cut from the bushes, to carve into all sorts of useful items - whistles, flowers, knives and even walking sticks! A great little book for scouts and other youngsters - from nine to ninety year olds! |
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Three pages in all on dog head stick carving.
