Woodcarving Basics by David Sabol
Taunton Press, 2008.
$19.95; 192 pp.
We have a lucky winner!
Woodcarving Basics provides step-by-step instruction for the beginning wood carver, including tips, techniques and expert advice on creating life-like animals, beautiful landscapes, signs and more. From the book you’ll learn how to:
Select the right wood
Choose the tools you’ll need and how to sharpen them
Chip carve, power carve, and burn wood
Paint and finish your creations
This time our winner was chosen a little differently. Believe it or not, the randomly chosen comment was from Guts and he wanted the book to go to Lazarus. So Lazarus is the lucky winner. Thanks Guts for your generosity.
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Comments
I'm interested.
The carving book looks interesting. Count me in. Thanks !
oh - that would be sweet and great timing, as I just bought my first gouge this week!
Please enter my name too, thanks.
My woodworking mentor wants me to carve the outside of a turned piece. I have never carved before. Perhaps this book would help me get started.
Oh this would be just fantastic for me to have!! I am unable to purchase due to I live in disability but oh to win it would be a perfect way to start doing what I have always dreamed of doing!! Having the basics would certainly assist me in so many ways! The sky is the limit!!!
I have flpped through this book and it would be used to help start me on the path of becoming a carver.
I live in a tiny village called Blackball on the West Coast of New Zealand half a world away from you but we are joined by a shared passion for making things with our hands, our hearts and our minds. In 2002 (at 45) I suffered a brain hemorrhage and a severe stroke and after a long spell in hospital I was able to return home and to work. Work was a struggle, but a return to woodworking became my self imposed therapy and passion and my friends and family were amazed by the beautiful furniture that started to emerge from the workshop (albeit very slowly). I had lived in Christchurch all my life and after the trauma of the earthquakes I found that my two young sons resilience, maturity and independence was reinforced and that as they finished school and went to University and entered the workforce they no longer needed Dad on a daily basis so I was able to find a small piece of paradise with a lovely old cottage and a massive shed for my workshop, surrounded by bush and native birds. When I returned to woodworking I discovered Fine Woodworking magazine and a subscription has been my small luxury ever since and the articles and submissions by other woodworkers have been inspirational. Largely self-taught I have enjoyed learning techniques from the magazine and website and carving has been at the top of my list of skills to learn for a while and I would love a copy of the book to make a start. Our native timbers are beautiful (search Rimu, Red Beech, Totara, Kauri and Rewarewa) I would love to learn to carve and be able to add my own individual touch to the pieces that I make.
To all of you out there; thank you for your inspiration and passion.
I'm interested, also!
Fine Woodworking should include more articles on carving and sculpted furniture.
I book I could definately use in my woodworking library!
More carving and morehandtolsprojectsinth
I have the companion DVD for this book. It is excellent. It would be nice to have the book to reinforce the training on the DVD.
I've always had an interest in learning more about carving. This looks like a good book for that. Thanks
Picked my first set of carving chisels, now I have to learn what to do with them
Would love to have this book to learn woodcarving.
Yes please!
Would love it!
I've dabbled in carving, and have several books, but don't believe I have this one. Would be good to look through it to improve my skills and make sure I've got a good understanding of the basics!
I don't know anything about wood carving. Give me this book and you'll be helping to eradicate ignorance in the world.
I am just starting to explore carving. This book would be very helpful!
I am just now starting wood carving. I have never thought about painting my projects and I am most intrigued
Looks great!
I fear my lack of artistry will get in the way of carving BUT i would like to try a book that proves you don't have to be terribly artistic to learn to carve. I have aset of carving tools i have not used yet and would like to learn how.
Always appealing to win a woodworking book. But there is the shelf in front of me with all the other books not finished, the workshop full of projects to complete (or discard...) and the kids to help first. So if this entry happens to be chosen, please send my copy to Lazarus in Blackball. He sounds like he's ready to do something great with it !
I've always wanted to be a carver, and haven't been successful at teaching myself.
Perhaps if I win this book I can make better progrss.
Don
Would love the book. If I'm lucky enough to be chosen, I'll read it and send it off to New Zealand when I'm done!
I picked up a set of carving tools a couple weeks ago, and this would be perfect to provide the initial learning curve to use them
As one who has an interest in both woodworking and birds, this book will help reinforce these interests with many hours of enjoyment.
Mike K.
I agree with a previous poster - FW could stand to publish more articles on carving.
I'm always looking for good texts that will help Boy Scouts with their Woodworking and Wood Carving Merit Badges.
I want to start wood carving. This book would be a great start!
I would love to read this book!
Hey - send it my way!
I would like very much to get better at carving. Maybe this book would give me some pointers.
My desire is to add embellishment to my woodworking projects.
I need this book my craving skills need some help!
Love to win something for a change. Thanks
I'd like to learn how to carve, this book would be a nice start.
I crave to carve.
I have a table full of carving tools I've accumulated as gifts but I've never used them so a book on the basics would be the right ticket for me!
This would be a great book for me. I just started carving and have done a few comfort birds but it's time to move on to bigger and better.
This is a skill I have been trying to learn, I'm sure there are many ideas and pointers in the book to help me progress.
I've been unable to get any instruction locally so a book on the basics would be a great way to start.
I would love to win this book to aid me in learning woodcarving!
I was thinking that it might be the time to learn how to carve
i suppose the good news is that if i don't win it, i can buy it!!!!!
I would really win a book to begin carve those really nice ducks
I would really win a book to begin carve those really nice ducks
I have always wanted to be able to carve - this book sounds like it would get me started.
A great looking book! I started with a carved trout and it tuurned out OK but it made me realize how much I had to learn.
I have both manual and electronic carving equipment (chisels, gouges and Dremel etc), the only carving I have done, if you could call it carving is on pieces that I have turned (piercing etc). maybe this book could put me on the right track and start me on Carving. Thankyou Evo
I've been a part-time carver/toolmaker for years and I'm always interested in new books/projects that are out there. I would definitely be interested in this book.
I would love to be able to add serious carving to my furniture. If I can get the sharpening thing down, I'm halfway there!
Looks as if this a book a tyro to wood carving - me! - might be interested in. Would be nice to have.
Would be a great gift for an uncle who is struggling health wise. Maybe a hobby would lift his spirits. Thanks
Count me in.
I would like to have a copy of this as I have always wanted to give carving a try.
Thanks for the generous gift for someone.
Take Care and Enjoy Life...
A perfect match for some recently acquired Swiss Made carving tools.
Great idea. I could use this to improve my carving skills
Would like to try my hand it, count me in!
I also am a fan of Gregory Paolini.
Count me in for the draw. I've meet carved but highly respect its affect.
I am teaching wood carving and always looking for better insights and tricks to improve communication with students. I would love to have another viewpoint as reference.
I'm just starting the search for purchasing carving tools, and thought this offer looked like the right fit being from FWW!
Rage against the machine?
FWW, lots of people would evidently be interested in more articles about carving.
I would like to learn woodcarving.
My wife and I are doing a workshop on carving Haida masks and enjoying it very much. We would be very interested in this book to improve our understanding of wood carving in general.
I've had a go at most aspects of woodworking, but never carving. This might be a good place to start.
Never got into carving, but this book would be a good start.
Tossing my hat in the ring.
I'd like to try carving, too. Count me in on the draw. And thanks.
Looks like a great book to get started in wood carving.
Fine Woodworking has show the me the mechanics of power tools, the detail of hand tools, now I'd like to learn the passion of woodcarving.
Count me in.
Always up for a giveaway.
I would like to learn some basics for sign carving.
I've been a woodworker for over 5 decades. Maybe it's time to try carving!
I could really use this now.
It's been a long hard winter here in New England and I think Woodcarving Basics would just help ease the pain. ;)
It would be great to get this book. I would like to carve in the future.
Looks like fun. I'm in.
I am new to all this and it would be awesome to have this book to help me get started.
A basic carving is sometimes all that's needed to add that "final" signature.
And this seems a whole lot more economical to get started up in than turning.
Very interested.
In, thanks!
i'm interested, hope there is a good section on workholding devices and methods.
Carving would be an interesting addition to my woodworking projects. It's time to try something new.
Has to be a great read being written by Mr. Sabol. I found out in 2009, I have an affinity for carving wood, and am constantly complemented on my work. Still surprises me on occasion that I never knew I had it in me before, Ha. Still can't bring myself to sell any of my work, although I have carved gifts for close friends, which I see placed in a spot of high visibility in their homes when I visit.
Hope I win it !!!
It seems that a book like this would be "A cut above" .
Thanks, Jon
I love relief carving Spanish Colonial designs on furniture made of soft wood. New ideas are always welcome, and new things to try are fun as long as they are made of wood.
Was interested in carving when I was a kid, but lost interest before too long. Now that I'm retired and getting back into woodworking, learning carving techniques will help enhance my work. Thanks for offering the book.
I have a good friend, one I graduated high school with, that showed no intrinsic ability in woodworking and guess what, he is a professional Bird Carver. I think I could Carve if I knew the basics, and he has offered to help me learn.
Capt45
Very Interesting.
Would love to win this book -- I've recently started taking an interest in carving.
I incorporate carving in some of my work. I would enjoy having another reference.
Nice Cover... count me in!
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