Carving the Little Guys. Keith Randich
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Acknowledgements
To Kim and the kids, Elizabeth and Anthony, who give me the ideas for many of the figures I carve. They’ve become my most honest critics over time. Long gone are the days of them applauding thirty minutes of carving without injury. Now I hear, “Gee, Dad, that doesn’t look like anything!”
And to Rex McHail, decoy carver and teacher extraordinaire, who bordered on relentless in his drive to get me to work on this text. This project would never have been completed without his encouragement and assistance.
© 1991, 2013 by Keith Randich and Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc., 903 Square Street, Mount Joy, PA 17552.
All rights reserved. Carving the Little Guys is a revised edition of the 1991 version originally published by Keith Randich under the title Carving the Little Guys in the United States of America. This version published by Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc., Mount Joy, PA.
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Table of Contents
Steps in Carving a Little Guy
Finishing
Adding On to the Basic Little Guy
Introduction
This text is written with the new carver, or someone looking to try carving, in mind. The instructions, with accompanying photographs, take the reader cut-by-cut from a small block of wood to a completed Little Guy. Experienced carvers should expect to move through these steps fairly quickly, adding their own ideas to the figure as they go. There seems to be no shortage of books in print showing how to carve cowboys, hillbillies, Santas, and hermits, so it is my intent to use an occupational study that most of us are more familiar with on an everyday basis: the executive. If your boss is a great person, you could carve a caricature of him. If not, I’m sure psychologists everywhere would agree about the therapeutic value of a knife in one hand and a representation of your authority figure in the other. Just be sure to keep track of your thumbs. But anyway, with a little change here or there, the executive can become a soldier, hunter, fireman, doctor, fisherman, Native American, and so on.
I’d like to add a disclaimer here before we get going. The book is about carving Little Guys, but please don’t think I have anything against carving Little Gals, or Little Girls, or even Little Women. Some of my favorite carvings are females, as are my favorite wife and daughter. My intent is simply to avoid a text full of he/she, his/her, and Guy/Girl. Thanks for understanding.
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