Bøger af Daniel Clay

The Art Of Chip Carving is an easy to follow, step-by-step guide to one of the world’s most ancient and widely practiced forms of woodcarving.Anyone, from the completely inexperienced beginner to the veteran craftsperson, can learn to use simple, inexpensive tools and techniques to carve striking decorative designs in wood. Chip carving is an especially good introduction to working wood for the inexperienced because of its low cost-of-entry, and because it puts the most essential concepts of woodworking front and center: safety, precision, and how understanding the nature of the wood itself leads to successful results.This guide is loaded with the technical information you need to start chip carving—the few tools you need and how to sharpen them, how to select and prepare wood for carving, how to transfer carving patterns, how to carve safely and precisely, and how to read and understand wood grain. Clay also teaches the basics of good carving technique, provides step-by-step guidance through two practice boards to build your skills, and then walks you through ten beginner projects that allow you to put your skills to use.The Art Of Chip Carving goes beyond any other how-to manual by introducing techniques and projects for learning freehand carving, and how to use the simple shape-vocabulary of chip carving to create your own carving designs in the style of traditional European folk carvings.

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A primer on all things Occult and Magick. This work is focused on the use of "Intelligent Energies", how existing energies are optimized, and how energies are created for specific purposes. The work touches upon a wide range of topics including: Man-made Angels, Psychic Links, Symbols, Astral Projection, Scrying, and the use of the Tarot and I Ching. It addresses some intriguing issues concerning Religion. The power and practice of Ritual is explained. This book may give answers to questions you haven't thought to ask.

These stories are wonderful for children and will be enjoyed by adults. They follow the Ericksonian model. They appear very simplistic, but are designed to effect change on the subconscious levels of response. They may help with fears, worries, doubts, phobias, self-esteem, and even addictions. The Fables and Parables are fun and entertaining stories, but they are also powerful tools to aid in moral, social and character development. Get comfortable and enjoy one of these short easy stories.

Until that fateful afternoon, Skunk Cunningham had been a normal little girl, playing on the curb in front of her house. Rick Buck-ley had been a normal geeky teen-ager, hosing off his brand-new car. Bob Oswald had been a normal sociopathic single father of five slutty daughters, charging furiously down the side-walk. Then Bob was beating Rick to a bloody pulp, right there in the Buckleys' driveway, and life on Drummond Square was never the same again.Inspired by Harper Lee's classic To Kill a Mockingbird, Clay's brilliantly observed and darkly funny novel follows the sudden unraveling of a sub-urban community after a single act of thoughtless cruelty.