Woodcarving with Rick Butz Book

8 full-color pages 300 b/w photos 20 drawings 9 x 12 Step-by-step photos, including full-color section Patterns for carving folk motifs from around the world Back by popular demand, this is a reprint of the classic text based on the public television series. Master woodcarver Rick Btz guides carvers through 14 projects designed to help develop skills in various techniques, using basic tools. Easy-to-follow instructions and accompanying photos and patterns show the steps for whittling a Swedish doll horse and Russian dancing bears, chip carving an Early American salt box or Celtic love spoon, and creating relief carvings of a thoroughbred horse and a tobacconists Indian. Other projects include a cardinal, a lynx, and a merganser decoy from the Civil War era. Rick and Ellen Btz are the authors of Stackpoles Woodcarving Step by Step with Rick Btz series, which includes How to Sharpen Carving Tools, American Eagles, Santas, Woodland Creatures, and Woodland Warblers. They live in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Read More