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Complete Book of Gourd Carving | 
 enlarge | Authors: Jim Widess, Ginger Summit
Publisher: Sterling
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 38696
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 8.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 1402748728
Dewey Decimal Number: 745.5
EAN: 9781402748721
ASIN: 1402748728
Publication Date: September 1, 2007
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Product Description
Jim Widess and Ginger Summit, the best-selling authors of The Complete Book of Gourd Craft and Making Gourd Instruments, produce another winner to delight the many gourd crafters. Large, lavish, and astonishingly comprehensive, this breathtaking volume introduces every tool and technique, offers fabulous projects that advance in difficulty, and presents a gallery of works designed to inspire. See how to choose and prepare a gourd, impress the surface with a design, and work with green gourds. The magnificent methods of decorative carving covered include fretwork, engraving, chip carving, carving with gouges, relief carving, inlay, and deep relief or sculptural carving. Throughout, color photographs of exquisite carved gourds present crafts styles from countries around the world.
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Excellant Gourd Book! July 27, 2008
This book is very well written. I can't wait to work on my gourds, trying out some of these techniques. You won't be sorry if you love to work with gourds and you purchase this book!
Complete Book of Gourd Carving February 6, 2008
I'm new to gourd art and was looking for ideas and techniques to try. This book provides both. The artwork is fantastic and the pieces portrayed are inspirational. A dozen different techniques are showcased with photos of several completed pieces created with each technique and with various tools. Some of the artists tell how they created their pieces in a general way, while others explain in great detail. I love the mix of styles and methods. I would recommend this book to any gourd enthusiast. The Complete Book of Gourd Craft, by the same authors, is also a great book for beginning gourd artists.
vERY GOOD December 30, 2007
My husband does the carving on the gourds - and he says the book
is very good!
Complete Book of Gourd Carving December 14, 2007
One of the best books of Gourd designs I have seen in a long time. The designs caputure your imagination and put it to work in seeing gouds in a more sophisticated and modern genre.Congratulations to Jim Widess and Ginger Summit. Mary Schisler, Paradise CA.
Complete Book of Gourd Carving January 11, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Great how to carving book. Great photos. Not just for the beginner.
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