Woodcarver Richard Butz teaches chapter by chapter whittling, chip carving, wildlife carving, relief carving, lettering, and architectural carving. The reader learns by doing, working through carefully illustrated and progressively more challenging exercises and projects. Butz provides scaled patterns for each project and ends each chapter with a gallery of additional projects using the techniques learned.
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130 of 132 people found the following review helpful:
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Best Beginner's Book,
By Michael J Bloomquist (Rome, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: How to Carve Wood (Fine Woodworking Book) (Paperback)
To an experienced woodcarver this book may seem unfocused and thinly spread, but for the beginner it does exactly what it should do. The book begins with a good grounding in the tools of the craft and how to care for and sharpen each type. After that it gives you a sampler of carving styles with at least one project for each. It's guaranteed there is at least one or two chapters the reader will not care for. Even this is useful since the reader avoids launching into the craft with a project they really have little enthusiasm for, and then lose interest in wood carving all together. This book should be required reading before the beginner spends a single dime on tools, equipment, or wood. If it's not 'the' best beginner's book, it's in the top five.
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A good technical guide to woodcarving,
This review is from: How to Carve Wood (Fine Woodworking Book) (Paperback)
A good general book on woodcarving. This book could be better if it didn't try to be all things for all people. There are better books for beginners out there for the money and more advanced carvers probably need to buy a book concentrating on their type of carving. I found it to be a little on the technical side and would have preferred a few more patterns for each type of carving. My favorite sections were on finishes, sharpening, and the tool section. There are numerous photographs of some beautiful examples of the various types of carving. The author does show some very useful carving techniques in most of the carving styles. Sections include tools, sharpening, woods and finishes, design, whittling, chip carving, relief carving, wildlife carving, lettering, archatectural carving, and a bibliography.
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As a beginner, I appreciated the breadth of topics covered in the book, particularly the various styles of carving. This was my introduction to chip carving, and I think he covered it quite well. Sharpening is also covered, but I'd already bought "The Complete Guide to Sharpening" by Leonard Lee (of Lee Valley & Veritas) and found that to be a most comprehensive source of information on that topic.
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From the first time our Paleolithic ancestors picked up a sharp-edge stone, we began developing an instinct for using tools. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fishtail gouge, macaroni tool, levering cut, penetrating resin oil, linenfold carving, rounding plane, straight gouge, beading plane, entire cutting edge, paring cut, fan blender, wildlife carving, chip carving, triangular chips, plow plane, outer bevel, skew chisel, slicing cut, bench hook, sweep cuts, epoxy putty, stop cuts, sweeping cuts, hooked knife, excess wood Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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From the first time our Paleolithic ancestors picked up a sharp-edge stone, we began developing an instinct for using tools. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fishtail gouge, macaroni tool, levering cut, penetrating resin oil, linenfold carving, rounding plane, straight gouge, beading plane, entire cutting edge, paring cut, fan blender, wildlife carving, chip carving, triangular chips, plow plane, outer bevel, skew chisel, slicing cut, bench hook, sweep cuts, epoxy putty, stop cuts, sweeping cuts, hooked knife, excess wood Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Norwegian-American Museum, Hot Tool, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Old Mountain Phelps, San Antonio, Institute of Texan Cultures, Peter Mansbendel, Rogers Fund, The University of Texas New!
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- The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski on page 1, and Back Matter
- Marine Carving Handbook by Jay Hanna in Back Matter
- Wood Carving: Design and Workmanship by George Jack on page 65
- Manual of Traditional Wood Carving (Dover Woodworking) by Paul N. Hasluck in Back Matter
- Birds of America by John James Audubon in Back Matter
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