Chainsaw Carving: The Art and Craft, 2nd Edition Revised and Expanded (Fox Chapel Publishing) Find Inspiration to Create Your Own Chainsaw Art; Gallery of 23 Chainsaw Carving Artists & Chainsaw Basics - Softcover

Hal Macintosh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565237706 ISBN 13: 9781565237704

Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Get inspired to create your own chainsaw art!

• Extended photo gallery featuring the works of 23 chainsaw carvers including author Hal MacIntosh, Pat McVay, Dennis Roghair, Mark Tyoe, and more
• Chainsaw basics from saw chain to drive sprockets, plus history, charts, and a chainsaw model gallery
• Chainsaw carving how-to for line drawing, shallow relief, pierced relief, silhouette relief, and step cutting
• Design notes include ideas and tips for carving the human shape, dogs, bears, and other wildlife, plus chainsaw crafts and a handy log weight chart

Get inspired to become a chainsaw artisan with this guide to chainsaw basics!

Inside Chainsaw Carving: The Art and Craft, author and artist Hal MacIntosh guides you through chainsaw basics and step-by-step projects that show you how to create "scratch drawings," relief and pierced relief carvings, step-cut carvings, life-sized three-dimensional carvings of animals and people, and totem poles.

Discover the artistic side of the chainsaw with an extended photo gallery that features the works of 23 chainsaw carvers. You'll leaf through over 60 pages dedicated to beautiful finished pieces by the top chainsaw artists and shops across the country.

This expanded edition includes new projects with detailed line drawings that show you how to make eight craft projects out of one log, as well as benches, planters, and firewood holders.

With Chainsaw Carving: The Art and Craft, you'll find that everything imaginable can be created by a skilled chainsaw artisan—glass-topped tables, stately bed frames, old-world Santas, soaring eagles, and more!

About this title

About the Author

Hal MacIntosh made his first chainsaw carving-a wooden goose decoy-in the mid-1960s. Since then, he has published two books (The Tree Climbers Guide Book and The Chain Saw Craft Book), written a number of articles on chainsaw carving for special-interest magazines, and made thousands upon thousands of chainsaw carvings. He runs his own business, called Timbercrafts, and his work has been commissioned by designers for businesses and private homes across the country.

From the Back Cover

Discover the artistic side of the chainsaw

Get inspired to create your own chainsaw art with the help of author and artist Hal MacIntosh as he guides you through the chainsaw basics and step-by-step projects that show you how to create "scratch drawings," relief and pierced relief carvings, step-cut carvings, life-sized three-dimensional carvings, and totem poles.

An extended photo gallery features the works of 23 chainsaw carvers, and this expanded edition includes new projects with detailed line drawings that show you how to make eight craft projects out of one log, as well as benches, planters, and fire wood holders. You'll find that everything imaginable can be created by a skilled chainsaw artisan—glass-topped tables, stately bed frames, old-world Santas, soaring eagles and more.

Inside Chainsaw Carving: The Art and Craft, you'll:

• See life-size carvings of animals and people being created with chainsaws
• Leaf through pages of beautiful finished pieces by the top chainsaw artists in the country.
• Learn how to create your own chainsaw art.
• Find out how a chainsaw can make you money.

About Hal MacIntosh
Hal made his first chainsaw carving—a wooden goose decoy—in the mid 1960s. Since then, he has published two other books (Chain Saw Art & Crafts: Making and Marketing and The Chain Saw Craft Book), written a number of articles on chainsaw carving for special-interest magazines, and made thousands upon thousands of chainsaw carvings. He runs his own business, Timbercrafts, and his work has been commissioned by designers for businesses and private homes across the country.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565237706
• ISBN 13: 9781565237704
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 168