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Tom Wolfe Carves Dragons

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As a beginning carver with pretensions of grandure I found this book excellent, not so much for the text, but for the photos, which take you step by step through roughing out, and detail carving a dragon. As a visual thinker, the photos convey what the text is saying in a very real way, making it much easier for me to see what the author is trying to relay.

He uses power tools not available to me (that I wish I had!), but with a lot of patience, I think this project is do-able for the amature carver.

Really loved his dragons - they aren't chinese or asian dragons, but european dragons, and he shows several of his different carvings to whet the appetite.

Tom Wolfe's "Carves Dragons" is an excellent book for a novice carver. He instructs from the very beginning of the creation. Patterns are included.
Starting with copying the pattern to the wood, to carving out the parts, to connecting the separate pieces,and attaching these parts are invaluable. The finishing of the dragon is interesting. I belive it is up to each individual to choose their own finishing for their own creation.

His tools are a knife, a gouge and a rotary tool.
The instruction are given step by step in photos.

I found this book to be valuable in carving other items as well as dragons.

I am new to the carving and pyrography scene and found everything in this great book, to be very useful.
Mr. Wolfe is certainly one of the best and anyone can benefit from his teachings.