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| Great Book of Woodburning: Pyrography Techniques, Patterns & Projects for All Skill Levels | 
| Author: Lora S. Irish
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 265789
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 200
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 1565232879
Dewey Decimal Number: 745
EAN: 9781565232877
ASIN: 1565232879
Publication Date: September 1, 2006
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 Woodburning How-to's May 14, 2008
This is a very interesting and instructive manual in the art of pyrography. There should, however, be a notation that most of the examples are done with a variable heat burner. With that exception, this is a great book.
very nice May 5, 2008
Is a very nice book and has help trouth out my proyects, so check it out
 Pyrography March 9, 2008
Great book for the beginner or expert many valuable tips and ideas Highly recommend it to others
 repetitive and incomplete October 30, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book contains the work, mostly in one style, of one artist, mostly on one surface (birch plywood), using (apparently) two brands of burners. The author has a great understanding of how to coax a good range of light-to-dark from the variable heat nibs, but I found her use of texture to be lacking, whenever a smooth or gloss effect was appropriate. Her practice board includes a remarkable 81 stroke and stipple variations, but nothing there will help the pyrographer depict anything that glows or shines or relects. So the leather boots look like suede, the old car looks covered in fur, the eyes of her angry, sullen 'green men' and wildlife look dead, and the pond looks like a board. There are dozens of nibs, but this author uses just two in most of the work in this book, and most of the time we have to guess which of the two is being used in the projects.
If you want textures that shine (or whatever else you want them to do), check out Pyrography Workbook: A Complete Guide to the Art of Woodburning by Sue Walters. It has much less tedious repetition between text, captions, and exercises, and it covers a much greater variety of technique, including a whole chapter (rather than a paragraph) on the three basic pen tips, skew, writer, and shader, with a nib chart that briefly explains many more. Still, there is just one artist's work in what is boldly titled a 'complete' guide, but I do think Walters gets far closer to a complete guide than Irish.
A Neophyte Looks at Woodburning May 17, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Although I have been involved with woodcarving and sketching for years I have never tried woodburning. I turned to to Lora Irish's book as an introduction and am very happy with her work. She is an excellent teacher and her book takes the beginner through the basic stages of pyrography, including an excellent series of practice sessions and projects. The book is well bound and the color graphics are excellent. There is a glossary and an index. This book will take the beginner through the various stages of artistic competence as far as his or her abilities and interest allow.
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