Teach Yourself Woodcarving

Built around ten beautifully photographed animal woodcarving projects, Teach Yourself Woodcarving combines basic information for beginners with advanced techniques that will appeal to seasoned carvers. Section one advises on a starter carving tool set and a good carving workspace, and teaches skills and procedures useful for all woodcarving work. Usefully, the book includes information on the essential preparatory work of sketching and model making. Section two comprises ten detailed step-by-step projects selected to include a broad range of techniques: a horse head, a preening duck, a celtic dog, a tortoise, a perching hornbill, a cat, an owl, a fox, a polar bear and a leaping frog. Following these examples, the reader can learn to about complex in-the-round forms, shallow stylised relief carving, roughing-out with a small chainsaw, burning timber to bring out the pattern of the grain, and much much more.