asking for advice

Hi all. Got a question to ask. I've been working with carving walking sticks
and some staves among other things and I've been trying out using a dremel
tool to carve some designs into the wood. I found a few "templates" online
(a wolf head and some entertwined dragons) but I'm looking for more and
having a little trouble finding things. Does anyone have any fav sites
they'd like to share? I've been thinking that "wood burning" templates or
just some simple gifs or jpgs of wood carving might be a good place to
start. What I'm trying to do now though is going to be a little more nature
oriented. (My father, a hunter by nature, has requested a walking stick to
help him get around) so I really need to find some new designs.

I appreciate any help you guys can send

I use Photoshop to convert and size photos to make line drawings out of
them. This gives me the ability to carve from real life images. I use the
line drawings for creating my carvings. With Photoshop I can also quite
easily cut sections from several line drawings and combine them to suit my
needs. Although Photoshop is quite difficult to learn, the simpler (and
cheaper) versions of it like Photo Deluxe and Elements will do the same
thing. I can take you through the steps to make the line drawings with any
one of these programs if you want.
--
Charley


"dnapoe" wrote in message
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Hi all. Got a question to ask. I've been working with carving walking
sticks
and some staves among other things and I've been trying out using a dremel
tool to carve some designs into the wood. I found a few "templates" online
(a wolf head and some entertwined dragons) but I'm looking for more and
having a little trouble finding things. Does anyone have any fav sites
they'd like to share? I've been thinking that "wood burning" templates or
just some simple gifs or jpgs of wood carving might be a good place to
start. What I'm trying to do now though is going to be a little more
nature
oriented. (My father, a hunter by nature, has requested a walking stick to
help him get around) so I really need to find some new designs.

I appreciate any help you guys can send

Try here www.CarvingPatterns.com

From: "dnapoe"
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.carving
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:52:43 -0500
Subject: asking for advice

Hi all. Got a question to ask. I've been working with carving walking sticks
and some staves among other things and I've been trying out using a dremel
tool to carve some designs into the wood. I found a few "templates" online
(a wolf head and some entertwined dragons) but I'm looking for more and
having a little trouble finding things. Does anyone have any fav sites
they'd like to share? I've been thinking that "wood burning" templates or
just some simple gifs or jpgs of wood carving might be a good place to
start. What I'm trying to do now though is going to be a little more nature
oriented. (My father, a hunter by nature, has requested a walking stick to
help him get around) so I really need to find some new designs.

I appreciate any help you guys can send

Bill Tinker wrote in message ...
Try here www.CarvingPatterns.com

From: "dnapoe"
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.carving
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:52:43 -0500
Subject: asking for advice

Hi all. Got a question to ask. I've been working with carving walking sticks
and some staves among other things and I've been trying out using a dremel
tool to carve some designs into the wood. I found a few "templates" online
(a wolf head and some entertwined dragons) but I'm looking for more and
having a little trouble finding things. Does anyone have any fav sites
they'd like to share? I've been thinking that "wood burning" templates or
just some simple gifs or jpgs of wood carving might be a good place to
start. What I'm trying to do now though is going to be a little more nature
oriented. (My father, a hunter by nature, has requested a walking stick to
help him get around) so I really need to find some new designs.

I appreciate any help you guys can send


Go to this site
http://www.carvingpatterns.com/wooda...woodspirit.htm
Vin