Relief Carving Projects & Techniques: Expert Advice and 37 All-Time Favorite Projects and Patterns (Fox Chapel Publishing) 3D Relief Carving ... 200 Photos (Best of Woodcarving Illustrated)

Follows through with the process

Simple to understand instructions and exactly what I was looking for…

Great ideas and well illustrated

Enjoyed reading this book. Illustrated pictures are great. It provided me a lot of new carving ideas. This is my first book on wood carving.

The book is well illustrated with glossy pictures and nice patterns, however this is not a beginners woodcarving book. Most projects show just a few steps to finish complicated patterns. Also it shows carving with power tools which is not what I wanted. It starts off with a reciprocating carver. Stadtlander also must have an endless supply of gouges because some patterns call for 10 different gouges, plus a bunch of other tools. It would be interested in seeing the pages of tools he uses in this book. He shows very few tips and hardly any for a beginner carvers.Over all if you are looking for good ideas this might me a good book for you.

really like this book it was very helpful

This book has some attractive plans but not very much how-to info. I dont like that the plans are not to scale because its much easier to copy and piece togeter full size plans from several pages than it is to scale it up on my printer. I still like it, howwever.

husband

Very nicely written and illustrated book but I was a little disappointed with the examples as they were not all low relief but intaglio and similar. I was looking for a book with much more tutorial on low relief.

I found the projects within easy to follow affording much needed practice to aquire skill in use of gouges necessary to advance carving abilities

great book but too weak with M.E. you will be able to though probably.

It okay but not what I expected I will use some of the patterns when I find time to back to carving

Sent as a gift on behalf of my wife to Poland. Still receiving some very nice hand crafted items