Complete Guide To Chip Carving, The

A beginner?s guide from the world?s most renowned chip carver!Wayne Barton?author of Chip Carving and Art of ChipCarving?presents what is unquestionably the finest guidance everfor the novice. He has been the driving force behind the craft?sresurgence and his technical knowledge, design skills and abilityto instruct remain unequalled. One by one, with the aid of colourphotographs, he covers tools and materials, the best woods, holdingand sharpening chip carving knives and laying out and transferringpatterns. Borders, grids, rosettes, free-form design, positiveimage design and lettering all receive separate, in-depth chapters,as does Barton?s special, time-tested hints.

?Barton needs no introduction, he is among the best-known carversin the world? His skill is astonishing.? ?Library Journal (reviewof Chip Carving)