Charles R. Self
Auteur van Making Birdhouses & Feeders
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Werken van Charles R. Self
Flourishing Churches and Communities: A Pentecostal Primer on Faith, Work, and Economics for Spirit-Empowered… (2012) 37 exemplaren
Woodworker's Pocket Reference: Everything a Woodworker Needs to Know at a Glance (2005) 18 exemplaren
The Power of Faithful Focus: A Practical Christian Guide to Spiritual and Personal Abundance (Power of Focus) (2004) — Auteur — 16 exemplaren
Make Your Own Walking Sticks: How to Craft Canes and Staffs from Rustic to Fancy (2007) 16 exemplaren
How to take action photographs: The right way to photograph animals, children, nature, and sports (1975) 3 exemplaren
Winning through grooming: How to groom your horse like a professional (Farnam horse library) (1979) 2 exemplaren
Making bird feeders 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Geslacht
- male
Leden
Besprekingen
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 43
- Leden
- 397
- Populariteit
- #61,078
- Waardering
- 3.5
- Besprekingen
- 3
- ISBNs
- 67
Charles Self manages to say quite a lot. Almost half the book is given over to "Getting Started", including wood selection, adhesives, hardware and fastners, and tools and finishes. His discussion of handles is limited to brass and does not touch on those made from other materials such as horn. Additionally Self mentions steam bending of wood to form handles, but this is well beyond the scope of the book.
The second half is devoted to the creation of different styles of walking sticks, staffs and canes: flat walking sticks, "bark-on" sticks and canes, willow, patterns for carved sticks, lathe-turned sticks and laminated canes.
Finally he mentions a few resources (I think they're all US-based) that supply walking stick hardware.
After the good advice of the first part, the value of this book is in the description of different approaches to creating the walking stick, staff and cane. Once the basics of the different styles are understood (and this isn't hard) its a matter of being creative (and finding the hardware to finish it off). As an alternative to commercial handles, Self also discusses turned handles and naturally formed handles.
Of particular interest is the process of laminating to produce a curved handled cane.
Certainly the book is inspiring, and the book's finished sticks are beautiful works. But there is definitely an art to making a piece of wood look like more than just a stick.… (meer)