chainsaw carving book

[smudge1]

New to chainsaw carving. could anyone recommend a good book on it book ..

thanks

[dervishcarving]

there aer a couple of books on chainsaw carving but to be honest mate, they are not really worth the money

you would be better watching a few youtube videos of basic carvigns, look through a few of the threads on this forum about basics and safety etc (there are quite a few of them) and then pick up yer saw and have a go

[splinters]

As dave has said there are several books on carving and several that give step by step instructions but dont bother with them. you would be better buying books on how to draw. learning to understand what things look like from different angles is the key to learning to carve.

 

to start off with you will find it easier to put 2 flat sides on to your log at 90 degrees to each other. on one flat draw the front view on the other draw the side view. take care to make sure the two aspects corispond with each other so that the various datails are at the same hight on both plains. it doesnt matter how complex your design is you need to master the basics first.

[smudge1]

thanks for the advice splinters

[splinters]

No worries dude. Prob should have also said there us nothing wrong with looking at other peoples work to get ideas and see how they have done somthing but if you are going to carve the same thing do your own research and get your own pictures of the real thing if you work from pictures of some one elses carving what you will end up with is uour interpritation of that carving. If you work from your own research you will start to develop your own style. This can be seen when you look at american carvings all the bears and all the eagles look the same because there is a steriotype chainsaw carved bear and eagle that every one coppies,