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If you have ever wanted to try your hand at chip carving and are looking for an approachable introduction, Chip Carving Starter Guide is the perfect place to begin! Its opening chapters will help you build a solid foundation of knowledge on the basics of chip carving, transferring patterns, applying finishes, and correctly making a variety of chips. You'll then go on to complete 23 projects to practice carving with confidence as you start simple and...
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And The Winner Is…
Announcing the first winners in the 2016 People's Choice Contest
Miniature Masterpieces
By Kathleen Ryan
Extraordinary Renaissance carving depict religious scenes in minuscule relief
Soapstone Artisty
By Kathleen Ryan
Three sculptors share their tips
No Fear at 94
By Dean Otteson
Nonagenarian Tony Giuffrida fills retirement with creative carving
Heavenly Pews
By Kathleen Ryan
Cindy Chinn combined carving,...
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Get ready for a special holiday season in your wood shop!
32 Christmas carving projects, a collection of all-time favorites from the last decade of Woodcarving Illustrated
Step-by-step instructions, coordinating photography, insightful tips, and ready-to-use patterns
Projects for all carving styles, including whittling, relief carving, chip carving, caricature carving, and more
Original patterns for angels, reindeer, snowmen, elves, toy soldiers,...
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Get ready for winter with Handcarved Christmas, Updated Second Edition! This carving book contains 40 classic, heartwarming projects from the last two decades of Woodcarving Illustrated magazine. With a mix of illustrated step-by-step guides for beginners and more pared-down pattern profiles for advanced carvers, this compilation is perfect for carvers of all skill levels. From an angel tree topper and a family of easy-to-carve penguins...
25) Lettering & Sign Carving Workbook: 10 Skill-Building Projects for Carving and Painting Custom Signs
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We use signs everyday, to work out which way to go, to know if a shop is open or closed, to welcome guests and to mark a room as belonging to someone special, just to name a few. Hand carved wooden signs can add warmth and charm to any home or business. In the Lettering & Sign Carving Workbook, author and woodcarving instructor Betty Padden shares her designs and techniques for creating custom signs. With this book, even beginner woodcarvers can learn...
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2013 Woodcarver of the Year: Fred Cogelow
By Bob Duncan
Combining relief techniques with realism to create fine-art carvings
Best of Show
Appreciating some of the best carvings in the country Plus! 10 More Great Shows
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Carving Decorative Elements
By Chris Pye
Learn to carve rope molding, a lettered banner, and a scalloped shell
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Folk-Art Fish Keychains
By John Reichling
Simple designs are easy to carve and fun...
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Legendary bird carver Larry Barth has created a stunning retrospective of his life's work, including sculptures from museum exhibits and rarely seen pieces from private collections. This is a must-have book for every bird lover, carver, and anyone who appreciates fine sculptural art.
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Join award-winning woodcarver Desiree Hajny as she reveals her artistic approach to carving majestic white-tailed deer. Desiree is well known for her lifelike, richly detailed animal carvings. Now she shares her knowledge and carving secrets with you in this handy reference guide. Celebrate the natural beauty of wild deer as you create your own magnificent woodcarvings. Inside you'll find ready-to-use carving patterns for making beautifully realistic...
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Challenge your carving skills as Halloween creeps near! Author and award-winning caricature carver Dwayne Gosnell will skillfully teach you how to carve, paint, and finish 4 classic monsters, including Dracula, Frankenstein, a witch, and a mummy. With detailed, step-by-step instructions and photography, each task is carefully described, from roughing out to painting and finishing each piece. Full-size, ready-to-use patterns are provided for every...
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Stunning Soap Carving
By Kathleen Ryan
Experts turn simple soap into works of art
Carving and Turning: Lathes
By Bob Duncan
Make your own carving blanks while learning a new hobby
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Fantastic Wizard
By Shawn Cipa
Stylized design is easy to carve and customize
Celtic Twist Green Man
By Lora S. Irish
Combine Celtic knotwork with a traditional green man for a modern relief carving
Want-A-Be
By Dennis and Susan Thornton
A fun caricature...
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This comprehensive guide provides everything readers need to know about carving soap, from basic carving methods for beginners to sophisticated techniques for accomplished artists. Complete Guide to Soap Carving shows how to choose the best carving soap, and how to test soap for carving quality. Twenty-six step-by-step projects range from quick carvings to elaborate soap sculptures. Fun and easy-to-learn, soap carving is a perfect craft for children,...
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Pack a punch of personality into small carving projects! Using a precut block and a few hand tools, Carving Little Caricatures is a must-have guide for woodcarvers of all skill levels to learn valuable techniques to add movement and expressive details into a small piece of wood. Featuring detailed overviews on tools and materials, basic cuts, painting, finishing, and other essential tips, this complete guide also includes 14 unique character designs...
34) How to Carve a Great Santa: 34 Projects, Patterns & Techniques for Beginner to Advanced Woodcarvers
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Celebrate the season with Santa! Whether you're a beginner or you've been carving for years, How to Carve a Great Santa will have you celebrating the holiday season with your very own handcrafted Santa! Featuring 30 festive projects, 26 of which have never been see before, and full-size carving patterns of St. Nick, this exciting edition includes a slew of new techniques and tips, and more to make this favorite Christmas book even better than before!...
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The Winter 2018 issue of the world's best how-to magazine for woodcarvers is packed with patterns, techniques, tips and projects for all skill levels. This holiday-themed issue dishes up a whole sleighful of Santas to keep you busy making gifts, decorations, and ornaments during the months leading up to Christmas. Beginners will enjoy making Roger Beane's ingeniously simple Pear-Shaped Santa, and classicists will love Dwayne Gosnell's Jolly Old Soul,...
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Discover how to create unique and beautiful canes that will be treasured as useful works of art! Legendary carving artist Lora S. Irish introduces you to all of the essential components and techniques of cane topper carving in this comprehensive guide. Chock full of important tips and tricks, Cane Topper Woodcarving will teach you how to take full advantage of this fun and rewarding carving genre. With step-by-step projects, ready-to-use patterns,...
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Carve autumn-inspired earrings, a structural mobius strip, a loyal Golden Retriever walking stick topper, Halloween ornaments and caricatures, and more! This 88th issue of Woodcarving Illustrated magazine includes 9 unique projects, plus 12 additional Halloween-themed projects, all with ready-to-use patterns and step-by-step instructions that are perfect for all skill levels! From whittling a simple witch pin for beginners to a detailed Dracula, mummy,...
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This book is a brief look into the world of Terry Everitt as a Wildlife Artist - or "Bird Carver" as he'd rather be known. It describes the strong feelings he has about both the good and the bad of inheriting a talent and how it's affected his life over the last 40 years or so. It traces the path from his earlier years drawing and painting birds, then changing his tools and medium to reach where he is today as a carver. Terry briefly covers the evolution...
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The first step into a new craft can be overwhelming: Where to start? What tools to buy? What projects to begin with? Thanks to author and internationally acclaimed woodcarver Chris Pye, this guide is filled with everything a beginning woodcarver needs to know. Chris Pye's Woodcarving Course & Reference Manual is akin to having a one-on-one course with a master carver. You'll learn what to look for in a workbench, the importance of commissioning your...
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