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How to Carve Wood: A Book of Projects and Techniques (Fine Woodworking Book) | 
| Author: Richard Butz
Publisher: Taunton
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  5 reviews
Media: Paperback
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 0918804205
Dewey Decimal Number: 731.462
EAN: 9780918804204
ASIN: 0918804205
Publication Date: October 1, 1984
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Product Description
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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| Customer Reviews:
 Covers a lot of ground July 3, 2007
Noor S. Khalsa (Espanola, NM)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
Best Beginner's Book October 3, 2000
Michael J Bloomquist (Rome, NY United States)
105 out of 105 found this review helpful
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.
 A good technical guide to woodcarving April 5, 2000
80 out of 81 found this review helpful
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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