Product Description
Woodworkers' Guide to Carving
There is so much to learn when your looking to carve various projects. This is a guide to all type's of carving weather your chip carving, relief, or carving in the round, this book covers all the basics. The reader will learn all the information you need on tools and how to properly handle them to achieve the maximum efficiency. There is a full chapter on tools and selection, sweeps and sizes, carving accessories, sharpening and techniques. You'll learn what wood works best with each project while using the wood chart that is provided. Moving on the reader will learn about basic carving strokes using the illustrated exercises on chip carving, principles of design,laying out the pattern, enlarging with graph paper, transferring patterns, using templates and finishing.This book guides you through carving rosettes, borders, lettering, and carving moldings. The chapter on relief carving covers, fans and shells, refining spirals, carving Ancanthus leaf ,Linefold panels, and carving a barnyard scene with full illustrations. The next chapter contains information on carving in the round, such as carving Claw-and-Ball-foot, carving a duck with patterns, and details on feathering, carving the eyes and texturing. Finally the chapter on carving in the round guides the reader through carving a bust, preparing the blank, carving general forms of heads while defining all facial features. This is an amazing book packed with so much information that you will thoroughly enjoy.
Woodworker's Guide to Carving Book Specifications:
- Softcover.
- 160 Pages.
- Publisher: Fox Chapel.