Chip Carving Starter Guide is a must-have guide for anyone looking for an approachable introduction to the timeless craft of chip carving! Begin by gaining a solid foundation of knowledge on the basics of chip carving, transferring patterns, applying finishes, and correctly making a variety of chips. With 3 step-by-step projects and 21 additional patterns, you’ll learn to carve with confidence as you start simple and slowly progress to advance your skills. Featuring complete materials and tools lists, full-size patterns, and expert tips, this guide emphasizes the importance of skill-building and developing techniques correctly and carefully to ensure success!

Summer has arrived! Get new, skill-building inspiration with this summer issue of Woodcarving Illustrated! From super simple and small gnomes and a five-point whimsey to a stylized whale and a classic rosette relief, this summer issue is filled with tons of playful projects for the season! With step-by-step instructions, coordinating photography, carving patterns, and expert guidance, you’ll carve a scuttling crab, a mini detective, realistic magnolia blossoms, a Nordic-inspired flat-plane character, and so much more! Also included in this issue are detailed product reviews, artist spotlights, reader galleries, bonus patterns and projects, and more!

Carve classic holiday favorites in this festive issue of Woodcarving Illustrated! From a chip carved sleigh and an elf caricature who works as the manager in Santa’s workshop to a power carved reindeer and a customizable Santa ornament, this winter issue is filled with tons of holiday projects to spread the Christmas cheer! With step-by-step instructions, coordinating photography, carving patterns, and expert guidance to build your skills, you’ll carve a simple snowman ornament, wheely turtle toy, rustic coffee scoop, a colorful toy solider, and so much more! Also included in this issue is a detailed product review of Schaaf Tools’ cut-resistant gloves, an artist spotlight on award-winning ice carvers, a feature on Frank Foust’s comfort birds that have led to a heartwarming movement within the carving community, reader galleries, bonus patterns and projects, and more!

Chip carving is the simplest, quickest, most portable form of woodworking there is. Over 100 patterns to make drawer fronts, chair backs, and clockfaces, and mix and match these dozens of designs in hundreds of combinations. "The largest selection of patterns in any book. Sure to delight all who do chip carving."--Chip Chats.

Great Book of Spoon Carving Patterns is perfect for carvers of any skill level to learn the traditional art form of carving lovespoons to express their romantic emotions! Featuring 5 bowl patterns and 75 original handle patterns to mix and match for hundreds of customizable carving designs, this book details the origins of each romantic wooden spoon and what they symbolize, from first date and courting spoons to wedding spoons.

Making tedious wood carving techniques more approachable, Carving Small Characters in Wood offers simple methods in a smaller format to carve compact caricatures with personality. With step-by-step directions and photography, you’ll be able to learn and appreciate this form of miniature character wood carving. Starting off with basic lessons then slowly progressing into greater, more detailed challenges, author and renowned caricature woodcarver Jack Price is the leading voice to learn from on how to carve small statuettes!

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 carving tools – there's more to it than just sharpening! – and how to make exacting cuts and execute a variety of techniques. Like any good instructor, Pye includes practice exercises to make you comfortable with the tools and techniques so you can build your skills and carve with confidence. Pye's conversational teaching style will encourage you as you follow the step-by-step instructions and work on a number of motifs, as well as projects for low, high, and pierced relief, and in-the-round. With the help of Chris Pye, you'll learn to carve: four types of molding, a beautiful koi project in three levels of relief carving, a realistic baseball cap in-the-round, and a charming wren in-the-round.

Learn to create one-of-a kind, carved gunstocks with this complete guide from award-winning carver Bill Janney. Includes step-by-step carving demonstrations, 20 pages of wildlife and ornamental patterns, and an overview of tools, materials, and safety precautions.