64 page, soft cover.

Create beautiful carved masks, birds, shields, plaques, and more. This unique two-in-one, die-cut format makes it easy, by allowing you to turn the pages of each half of the book separately. So when you're working on a lamp, a frame, or a bowl, you can just flip to whatever technique you need. The spiral binding always lies flat, too. Most important of all is the incredibly detailed technical information: choose the best wood for your carving; use and care for tools properly; draw sketches, plans, and grids; construct models; transfer drawings to wood; master several types of cutting; work the spoke shave; fill a split; strengthen thin forms; and lots more. Plus, there's project after wonderful project--23 in all, including frames, boxes, figures, and bowls, arranged in order of difficulty. Try some of these: Cheese Board; Table Lamp; Simple Lidded Box; Bowl; Mask; Zodiac Sign; and Horse. You'll get the technical know-how to create your own designs, and adapt patterns with ease!

Classic Carving Patterns

Bring a smile to even the most somber face with the characters inside this book! Ten clever projects are featured, complete with patterns, and finishing instructions. Sneak up on a down-and-out friend with '' Al E. Gater,'' delight the woman in your life with '' Buttercup, the Queen of Moo,'' give a hunter a laugh with '' Flea-Bitis,'' make a child laugh with '' Grumpy Gorilla,'' or move a slow-poke along with '' Speedy the Tortoise.'' You’ll enjoy carving these delightful pieces as much as a friend or family member will enjoy receiving them.

Expanded Paperback edition of original hardcover. Step-by-step, illustrated instructions from a world champion. New color section on how to paint six trout species.

Kirby, a master woodworker educated in England, shows the reader how to put a perfect edge on chisels, plane irons, and knives. The author advocates using Japanese waterstones in conjunction with the ordinary electric grinder as the best route to a sharp edge, yet he also shows how to get excellent results from traditional oil stones. Kirby also includes a discussion of diamond hones.

128 pages, softcover, 173 b/w illus., 7 1/2 x 9 1/2.

128 pages, 150 b/w illus., softcover, 6-1/2 x 8- 1/2.

128 pages, 183 b/w illus., 6 1/2 x 8 1/2.

First Projects for Woodcarvers is a pictorial starting place for the adventure of woodcarving. It introduces the new carver to safety considerations, the fundamentals of sharpening and carving. Three projects are included, designed with the new carver in mind: a cowboy boot, a dog called Gandolf, and a 3-piece stylized nativity. The step-by-step photos and text will lead the carver through the three projects. A pictorial gallery includes completed carvings of the three projects featured in the book.

Fourteen projects designed to help carvers develop skills in whittling, chip carving, wildlife carving, and relief carving. Based on the popular public television series.

Join the ever-growing cadre of relief carvers with this complete introduction to relief carving. Author and artist Bill Judt shares his tricks of the trade and personal insights gathered over his 13 years of relief carving. Moving to the practical side of relief carving, he covers everything from choosing woods and buying chisels to laminating boards and stamping backgrounds. Included are a step-by-step demonstration and ready-to-use patterns to help you start your own relief-carving venture. Bill also includes advice for selling your work.

Design, material, and technique: these are the three key elements of woodcarving, and this wonderful book of instruction and inspiration explores these essentials in abundant, glorious detail. 10 projects take you through the entire carving process, from the initial idea to the finished work, and they illustrate a range of styles and subject matter. Carve in relief, in the round, from nature and from mythology, and with lifelike realism and abstraction. Linking them all are thought-provoking discussions of the most pressing practical questions. What are the best ways to use drawing and modeling, hold the work, cut cleanly, and find ideas? The answers emerge through the knowledge contained here, and through your own experience as you undertake a small carving of Albrecht Durer's painting Hands; form the smooth surfaces of Ikarus, and proudly complete an advanced sculpture of a lively Leaping Frog. Bonus: profiles of two of history's finest woodcarvers!

The biggest secret of successful wood finishing is that there is no secret at all. Finishing is not an art, it's a simple process any woodworker can learn. Author Bob Flexner has been finishing wood for more than 20 years. He spent the last 6 years learning the chemistry of finishing, so you don't need to. In "Understanding Wood Finishing", Flexner has distilled his technical knowledge into the practical information you need to understand how every finish will perform and why.

Furniture Repair & Refinishing

160 pages, 119 color illus., 14 b/w illus., 5 x 8 1/4.                      

Readers will learn about five broad topics: basic finishing techniques, using major categories of finishes, special finishes, new finishing materials and solving finishing problems.

Beginners and seasoned woodworkers alike will learn how to achieve a perfectly sprayed finish. Charron shows how to choose the right system and how each system works and gives a variety of techniques for using them. He tells how to set up spray booths and rooms for maximum efficiency, how to choose the right equipment, including compressors, spray guns, filters and complete systems. Charts, sources of supply and a handy material, equipment and application reference are included.

Of course, the trick is choosing the right finish and applying it correctly to a surface that has been properly prepared. That's what this collection of 30 articles from Fine Woodworking will help you do. In addition to explaining how different finishes are applied, you'll learn how to remove finishes, how to mix and use stains and other wood colorants, and how to rub out a finish to perfection. In all, the articles will give you the confidence to broaden your finishing repertoire.

Winner of the 1998 Stanley Award for Best How-To Book!

New information on spray finishing and waterborne finishes. Over 200 color photos and drawings.

--Scott Phillips of American Woodshop, as seen on public television Table of Contents Introduction

'' With no previous woodworking experience and a few basic hand tools, anyone can make rustic furniture for the cost of a few nails, a walk in the woods, and this book....Hundreds of both color and black-and-white photographs display the rich traditions and the vast stylistic range of past and contemporary rustic furniture....''--Popular Woodworking. '' It's hard to imagine anyone not being captivated by this exuberant, well-researched, handsome, and copiously illustrated book.'' --Woodwork. '' Highly recommended....'' --Fine Tool Journal.160 pages (154 in color), 194 b/w illus., 8 1/2 x 10.

The best of it has grace and presence, qualities that seem in harmony with its setting. In these 23 articles from the pages of Fine Woodworking magazine, you'll see bedroom furniture in a variety of styles. Pieces range from a graceful Queen Anne lowboy that serves as a dressing table to a spectacular sleigh bed. In between there are bureaus, tables, and a crib. In all, you'll find something here to grace just about any bedroom, whatever style it might be.

The newest in Fine Woodworking's Design Book series is a showcase of exceptional woodworking by craftsmen from around the world. Readers get a full-color, visual feast of recent work that includes turning, carving, sculpture, furniture and instrument making. More than 300 outstanding works show a variety of design styles, from traditional to contemporary. Each piece shows how its maker used color and form to bring out the best in wood. All woodworkers will find design ideas to apply to their own pieces. And everyone who loves well-made, hand-crafted wooden objects, from elegant chairs to delicately crafted musical instruments will find inspiration and enjoyment.

Here is in-depth information on the construction of fine period pieces such as a Shaker-style end table, a pencil-post bed, a roll-top desk and a Windsor chair.

Classic Cabinets

Better Homes And Gardens® Furniture Projects