Books of Wood-carving

  • High Relief Wood Carving
    By William J. Schnute

    Whether you are a hobbyist carver or harbor more serious aspirations, this...well illustrated...volume can help you make the most out of the experience of turning a piece of wood into a beautiful work of art."--Chip Chats.

  • Learn to Carve in the Round: Progressive Step-By-Step Projects for the Beginner
    By Andrew Thomas

    Contains information on the different wood species and the necessary tools and equipment.

  • Wood Carving Basics
    By David Sabol, Kam Ghaffari

    Book of projects designed to give beginners the experience of work in a wide number of carving styles.

  • Old Time Whittling: Easy Techniques for Carving Classic Projects
    By Keith Randich

    Woodcarving instructor and author Keith Randich takes you step-by-step through 10 projects, with concise instructions and more than 50 photographs and diagrams.

  • Chip Carving Patterns
    By Wayne Barton

    Chip carving is the simplest, quickest, most portable form of woodworking there is.

  • Chip Carving: Techniques and Patterns
    By Wayne Barton

    With the aid of oer 160 close-up photos professional woodcarver Barton shows how to sharpen the knives an duse them to create many different types of carving-on jewlry boxes, humidors, chair backs, buttons and barometers, shingles and more ...

  • The Complete Guide to Chip Carving
    By Wayne Barton

    Full-color, illustrated instructions for learning chip carving, showing how to create borders, rosettes, and lettering.

  • Great Book of Carving Patterns: 200 Ideas for Woodcarving Projects
    By Lora S. Irish

    Inside you'll find 200 original patterns that make wonderful subjects for both relief and power carving. This comprehensive collection will provide any woodcarving artist with a virtually unlimited design resource.

  • Relief Carving Projects and Techniques (Best of WCI): Expert Advice and 37 All-Time Favorite Projects and Patterns
    By Editors of Woodcarving Illustrated

    With 36 tried-and-true relief woodcarving projects and patterns from the archives of "Woodcarving Illustrated," plus expert advice from favorite authors, readers can create an assortment of compelling carvings for the home and beyond.

  • Chip Carving: Techniques for Carving Beautiful Patterns by Hand
    By Daniel Clay

    This guide is loaded with the technical information you need to start chip carving--the few tools you need and how to sharpen them, how to select and prepare wood for carving, how to transfer carving patterns, how to carve safely and ...

  • The Art of Chip Carving: Award-winning Designs
    By Wayne Barton

    With this guide, readers will meet some of the world's best chip carvers, who have produced masterworks, and explore the astonishing range and beauty of their art.

  • Woodcarving with Rick Butz
    By Rick Butz, Ellen Butz

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

  • Wood Carving
    By Time-Life Books

    Geared to amateur and intermediate woodworkers, this series covers everything from using a handsaw to refinishing an antique. Full-color illustrations and step-by-step instructions show how to perform specific woodworking tasks.

  • Decorative Woodcarving
    By Jeremy Williams

    Experienced carvers will also find the book helpful in creating designs using the basic techniques of low relief, high relief, incised, intaglio and pierced carving.