176 Woodworking Projects by Workbench Magazine Staff     (More Details)
176 Woodworking Projects by the staff of Workbench Magazine. All 176 projects are chosen with the amateur woodworker in mind - you can find just the plans you need at the skill level that's right for you.

Art of Chainsaw Carving: An Insider's Look at 18 Artists Working against the Grain by Jessie Groeschen     (More Details)
Meet the World’s Most Unique Sculptors Learn more about the fascinating people who practice an art form that combines beauty and danger. Noted chainsaw sculptor Jessie Groeschen introduces you to the leading chainsaw artists practicing today, and provides an overview of the art form—recounting the advent and growth of chainsaw carving in the United States. Finally, try your hand at chainsaw carving with a how-to chapter on chainsaw carving a chair, with step-by-step instructions and a full color photo gallery of finished chairs.

Carving Cigar Humidors with Tom Wolfe     (More Details)
Tom Wolfe brings together two of his great loves in this new book: the love of wood carving and the love of a good cigar. While there is much ado about cigars today, Tom has been an aficionado for many years. Now he brings his carving skill to that all important piece of equipment for the serious cigar smoker, the humidor. From a caricature Texas Troubadour Humidor to a simply elegant decoy humidor, Tom opens a new range of carving for both novice and experienced carvers. The results are useful objects that catch the eye and the imagination. They will look good on the mantel, and even better on the carver's table at the local carving show. An amply illustrated gallery and many patterns make this book a vital addition to your carving book collection.

Carving Pins by Mary Finn     (More Details)
Wooden pins make wonderful handmade gifts and can be carved in a minimum of space with small equipment. Here, accomplished woodcarver and teacher Mary Finn guides readers through the creation of five colorful designs: a sunflower, cardinal, bunny, Santa, and rose. Mary suggests ideas for developing pin designs as well as methods for creating blanks that can be used many times. Step-by-step instructions and color photography present the process of carving the blank, adding texture and other details, painting, finishing, and attaching a pin to the back. Whether you want a dainty pin for your best friend, a funky pin for your little sister, or a bolo for your favorite uncle, this book will provide the tips and techniques for creating just the right look.

Carving Signs: The Woodworker's Guide to Carving, Lettering, and Gilding by Greg Krockta     (More Details)
Whether carving signs for personal use or starting a business carving signs for other people, this book is filled with the information professional and hobbyist woodworkers need to get started making wooden signs. It includes tips on which woods work best for outdoor signs, indoor signs, and boat signs, as well as design tips on finishing signs and sign shapes. In addition, techniques for embellishing signs are provided, including hand-carving letters and numbers, carving appliques and relief carvings, and gold leafing.

Carving Spoons (2nd Edition) by Shirley Adler     (More Details)
This manual provides an introduction to the fascinating world of carved spoons. Carving basics are covered, including selecting tools and materials, transferring patterns, sanding, and finishing. Two progressive projects introduce basic and intermediate carving techniques. An additional 45 patterns provide dozens of mix-and-match designs. Introductions to the history of Welsh and Scandinavian spoon carving provide a rich context for this historical craft.

Celtic Carved Lovespoons: 30 Patterns by Sharon Littley     (More Details)
Celtic Carved Lovespoons by Sharon Littley and Clive Griffin. Inside you'll find a comprehensive guide to lovespoon symbols, step-by-step instructions on spoon carving, a portfolio of lovespoon patterns, and tips and techniques on incorporating traditional symbols into your carvings. Include 30 patterns.

Complete Book of Gourd Carving by Jim Widess     (More Details)
Jim Widess and Ginger Summit, the best-selling authors of The Complete Book of Gourd Craft and Making Gourd Instruments, produce another winner to delight the many gourd crafters. Large, lavish, and astonishingly comprehensive, this breathtaking volume introduces every tool and technique, offers fabulous projects that advance in difficulty, and presents a gallery of works designed to inspire. See how to choose and prepare a gourd, impress the surface with a design, and work with green gourds. The magnificent methods of decorative carving covered include fretwork, engraving, chip carving, carving with gouges, relief carving, inlay, and deep relief or sculptural carving. Throughout, color photographs of exquisite carved gourds present crafts styles from countries around the world.

Complete Guide To Architectural Carving by Kurt Koch     (More Details)
Complete Guide To Architectural Carving by Kurt Koch. If you are looking to add architectural elements to fireplace mantles, archways, seat backs or any other item-you will not find a more comprehensive collection of patterns! From the simple to the ornate, this collection from Master carver, Kurt Koch, provides 63 designs that can easily be transferred to wood.

Fan Carving by Sally Nye     (More Details)
Fan Carving Old World Folk Art... from "one piece of wood" its history and step-by-step instructions.

Folk Carving with Shane Campbell     (More Details)
In this wonderful folk carving book, Shane Campbell takes you step-by-step through the process of carving two attractive wooden figures. The first is an articulated angel named Ruby and the second is a whirligig figure named Angelene. Project patterns and over 260 color photographs accompany the straightforward directions. Shane also provides instructions for both painting folk figures and for aging them using a method that is delightfully simple and effective. A color gallery rounds out the book and provides examples of additional folk figures sure to provide every reader with new ideas. This book has something to offer everyone from the beginner to the most advanced wood carver.

Handbook of Designs and Devices by Clarence P. Hornung     (More Details)
1,836 sophisticated unit designs based on circles and circle segments, lines and bands, triangles, squares, rhomboids, pentagons, hexagons, scrolls, frets, loops, other geometrical elements. Based on Japanese, Egyptian, Classical, Islamic originals.

How-to Book of Birdhouses and Feeders: Attract the Birds You Want with 30 Easy-to-Make, Clever and Sturdy Projects by Paul Meisel     (More Details)
Bird lovers and woodworkers alike will enjoy the results from the projects in the How-To Book of Birdhouses and Feeders. You'll find 30 fascinating-and often humorous-projects that will help attract many popular species of birds to your home. Inside, you'll find: - Helpful guidance on squirrel control, bird seed and more. - The proper dimensions and alignments of holes and perches to ensure that the right birds are attracted to your yard-something that many similar books do not cover - A full-color illustrated chart of hole sizes as a handy reference - Unique designs for 16 birdhouses and 14 birdfeeders that range from classic to fun, straightforward to comical More than just a simple how-to book, the How-To Book of Birdhouses and Feeders is a comprehensive reference guide to help you attract the birds you want to your yard and create backyard conversation pieces that are easy, clever and sturdy. Woodworkers of all skill levels will be able to find a project that they can complete using common woodworking tools found in most home workshops.

Lelooska: The Traditional Art of the Mask, Carving a Transformation Mask by Lelooska     (More Details)
This is rare look into the traditional ways of creating the beautiful masks that have brought such admiration to the native American carvers of the Pacific Northwest. The masks of the Kwakiutl people of the Pacific Northwest are noted around the world for their bold colorful designs. Used for dramatic recreations of the ancestors' adventures, they carry a depth of social, historical, and religious meaning. Lelooska has spent a lifetime creating these masks, a privilege bestowed upon him by the Kwakiutl. He has recreated many of the ceremonial masks which were lost or destroyed when the potlach was, for a time, outlawed. His masks are used in the traditional dances both at the revived gatherings and at recreations of the dances presented by the Lelooska Foundation in Ariel, Washington. Now he shares the traditional carving techniques with carvers everywhere. The Kwakiutl carvers are known particular for their transformation or opening masks, which change or open to reveal a second, inner mask. The mask carved in this new book is just such a mask, beautiful in its design and its complexity. Each step is illustrated and described to help the carver recreate the mask on his or her own. This is a unique and much awaited book by one of America's foremost artists.

Make Your Own Model Dinosaurs by Danny Downs     (More Details)
Make Your Own Model Dinosaurs by Danny A Downs with Tom Knight. You will find patterns and insturctions for cutting and assembling 7 different dinosaur projects.