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CONTENTS:
  1. Introduction
  2. Setting Up
    • A place to work; a piece of wood; ways of holding the carving; selection of carving tools; means of sharpening; a suitable idea
  3. Basics
    • Handling woodcarving tools: correct grips and what they do
    • Understanding and working with wood grain
    • What is relief carving?
  4. Low Relief Carving Project
    • Preparations; drawing out and transferring the project to wood; depth
    • Carving: lining in; grounding out; setting in; modelling; detailing; background; finishing
  5. High Relief Carving Project
    • Preparations
    • Carving: lowering; rough setting in; levelling; rough shaping; setting in; modelling; undercutting; detailing; finishing
  6. Further Techniques
    • Quicker background waste removal
    • Enclosed grounds
    • Undercutting
  7. Next Steps: Relief Carving Design
    • Your next relief carving
    • Where do ideas come from?
    • Design
    • Additional tools
  8. Gallery of Students' Work
  9. Resources
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Extracts from Book Reviews:

"Within its pages are real nuggets of wisdom which many an experienced carver may wish they had known before...a return to the technique used by traditional carvers over the centuries.
  As an accomplished instructor, Chris has marshalled his facts in a logical order and his style of writing carries you along at a comfortable pace"

Jeremy Williams - Woodcarving.
 

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This book is unlike any other woodcarving book. It takes just one simple design as an and exercise and examines the process of carving it, in low and high relief, in great depth. In this way you learn crucial and transferrable carving skills, thoroughly.
  I have taught the contents as a course hundreds of times and it works extraordiarily well - as the students' gallery testifies.
  Chris Pye
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Hollowing the tail can leave a problem of torn grain to one side - what's the best way to deal with this?
 

 Try these...

  What do the 'Wiggle-waggle', 'Piston' 'Crowbar' and 'Scrape' have in common?
  (Clue: they are not country dances - at least not around here.)
  You can get 7 cuts from one carving tool. How?
  What things do you really need to know about fish?
  What is the factor which defines a relief carving?

The answer to these questions (pages 30, 30, 44 & 40),
  and many more, are in this book!

 
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