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Built around ten beautifully photographed animal woodcarving projects, Teach Yourself Woodcarving combines basic information for beginners with advanced techniques that will appeal to seasoned carvers. Section one advises on a starter carving tool set and a good carving workspace, and teaches skills and procedures useful for all woodcarving work. Usefully, the book includes information on the essential preparatory work of sketching and model making. Section two comprises ten detailed step-by-step projects selected to include a broad range of techniques: a horse head, a preening duck, a celtic dog, a tortoise, a perching hornbill, a cat, an owl, a fox, a polar bear and a leaping frog. Following these examples, the reader can learn to about complex in-the-round forms, shallow stylised relief carving, roughing-out with a small chainsaw, burning timber to bring out the pattern of the grain, and much much more.

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Ben Russell is a self-taught woodworker, photographer and teacher based in south-west Ireland. For over thirty years his workshop has produced a spectacular range of woodworking commissions from joinery and furniture-making to sculpture and letter carving. Ben has written for several specialist publications including Woodcarving Magazine, and he produced the woodcarving section of Practical Woodworking for ten years. Several times a year he dusts down his workshop and runs short courses in woodcarving. Ben is married to gardening writer Joyce Russell, and his photographs illustrate her work.

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