Utilizing twigs, branches, and found wood, this manual provides step-by-step instructions for versatile projects that range from easy to ambitious. Inspiring readers with beautiful full-color photography of completed items, the guide is packed with affordable and environmentally friendly projects for both inside the home and outdoors, including a curtain rod, coat rack, ring, chess/checker table, walking stick, and rustic seat. Also included is a gallery of contemporary rooms showcasing ideas for decorating a modern home ...
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Utilizing twigs, branches, and found wood, this manual provides step-by-step instructions for versatile projects that range from easy to ambitious. Inspiring readers with beautiful full-color photography of completed items, the guide is packed with affordable and environmentally friendly projects for both inside the home and outdoors, including a curtain rod, coat rack, ring, chess/checker table, walking stick, and rustic seat. Also included is a gallery of contemporary rooms showcasing ideas for decorating a modern home with rustic accents. Covering everything from where to find wood to choosing the right tools, this guide is the perfect gift for thrifty and eco-friendly crafters, naturalists, woodworkers, and decorators. Author Bio: Chris Lubkemann is the author of Little Book of Whittling and Whittling Twigs and Branches. He is a regular contributor to Chip Chats magazine and has been featured in Wood Carving Illustrated. He lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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From the lumber in our buildings to the food on our table and the landscaping on our property, trees play a big role in human life. Now woodworking craftsman Chris Lubkemann offers a way to use fallen trees in additional ways to dress up our world.
Lubkemann?s book, ?Tree Craft: 35 rustic wood projects that bring the outdoors in? from Fox Chapel Publishing, features projects using parts of trees to create beautiful and useful furnishings for home, yard and office.
The beauty of this book rests in the open-ended plans for each item. A novice will find ways to enjoy working with tree parts to create a simple item, while a more experienced woodworker can adapt and enhance the projects to finish with a highly personal piece.
Lubkemann begins with a strong foundation?a table of the characteristics of various trees and their woods. He builds on that with descriptions of the potential sources of wood for projects and the methods of cleaning wood that you?ve found in the great outdoors. Add a few pages on sharpening your tools and you?re ready to get started.
He organizes the projects by uses for the finished product. Starting with decorative items such as candlestick holders and jewelry, he then moves into ideas for dining, living, playing and working. Each of the plans starts with a tree limb, trunk or branch.
None of these projects require an elaborate workshop, although the craftsman with a well-equipped shop can enjoy the book as well. A good saw and a whittling knife can handle many of the projects. Because the various concepts provide starting points rather than demanding instructions, beginners and experts can employ the ideas to their own skill levels.
The book offers numerous photos of the content, from preparing the wood to the finished piece. Many of the projects can be adapted for use with young woodworkers such as Scouts, 4-H or other youth organizations. Whether you consider yourself an experienced woodworker or just an interested crafter, you?ll find plenty of reasons to enjoy this book.
Perhaps the greatest strength of the publication is that it provides a primer for ideas of other adaptations. If you learn to make a natural checkerboard, how big a leap is it to make a natural tic-tac-toe board? How far from a business card holder to bookends? I can safely say that after reading this volume, I will never look at a fallen branch in quite the same way again.
This review is based on a review copy provided by the publisher.
Mary Beth Writes
Mar 17, 2011
Ideas Galore for Woodworking Projects
From the lumber in our buildings to the food on our table and the landscaping on our property, trees play a big role in human life. Now woodworking craftsman Chris Lubkemann offers a way to use fallen trees in additional ways to dress up our world.
Lubkemann?s book, ?Tree Craft: 35 rustic wood projects that bring the outdoors in? from Fox Chapel Publishing, features projects using parts of trees to create beautiful and useful furnishings for home, yard and office.
The beauty of this book rests in the open-ended plans for each item. A novice will find ways to enjoy working with tree parts to create a simple item, while a more experienced woodworker can adapt and enhance the projects to finish with a highly personal piece.
Lubkemann begins with a strong foundation?a table of the characteristics of various trees and their woods. He builds on that with descriptions of the potential sources of wood for projects and the methods of cleaning wood that you?ve found in the great outdoors. Add a few pages on sharpening your tools and you?re ready to get started.
He organizes the projects by uses for the finished product. Starting with decorative items such as candlestick holders and jewelry, he then moves into ideas for dining, living, playing and working. Each of the plans starts with a tree limb, trunk or branch.
None of these projects require an elaborate workshop, although the craftsman with a well-equipped shop can enjoy the book as well. A good saw and a whittling knife can handle many of the projects. Because the various concepts provide starting points rather than demanding instructions, beginners and experts can employ the ideas to their own skill levels.
The book offers numerous photos of the content, from preparing the wood to the finished piece. Many of the projects can be adapted for use with young woodworkers such as Scouts, 4-H or other youth organizations. Whether you consider yourself an experienced woodworker or just an interested crafter, you?ll find plenty of reasons to enjoy this book.
Perhaps the greatest strength of the publication is that it provides a primer for ideas of other adaptations. If you learn to make a natural checkerboard, how big a leap is it to make a natural tic-tac-toe board? How far from a business card holder to bookends? I can safely say that after reading this volume, I will never look at a fallen branch in quite the same way again.
This review is based on a review copy provided by the publisher.
