The Handcarved Bowl: Design & Create Custom Bowls from Scratch

Awesome book with great, detailed photos and drawings and very good explanations on how to make decisions about the cuts you're about to do.

This book is the ultimate resource for any woodworker who wants to get into making hand-carved wooden bowls. It goes into great detail on the tools you need and how to use them, and offers many tips and suggestions for techniques to improve your craft. There are also detailed illustrations and photos to guide you along. There are three projects described in exquisite detail will help you get started toward this satisfying hobby. Recommended for beginning to intermediate woodworkers. Whether you use hand tools exclusively, power tools, or a hybrid of both, you will find this book to be a valuabel resource.

But after reading many other books on the subject this one is actually my go to. Maybe not the best for straight up noobs but best all around book on the subject in my opinion.

... and a complete guide to walk me through the bowl carving process. But that isn't the full extent of this marvelous book as there is much supplemental information. From reading the book I feel Ms Byrd sought to give her best, and succeeded! I look forward to her future writings.I'm a late 70's want-to-be carver; this to be my winter work. A housing project down the road will provide inventory once they start clearing the land. (Durham, NC is a fine place, but, Oh, how suddenly I miss Tulsa's Green Dump.) With the detailed and informative list of useful tools I'm now gathering a beginner's tool box. I appreciate Ms Byrd and this book.

This lady makes sense and knows a lot. You can learn much more the green wood craft from this book.

Lots of details and enthusiasm.

If you’re buying this for Kindle, don’t, until the formatting issues are corrected. The info might be great but you can’t read it in it’s current state.

This is a truly comprehensive guide for anyone interested in carving bowls by hand. There is a wealth of information for beginners (like me.) A few months and a couple of crude bowls later, I am returning to its pages again and again and/or *really* reading parts I skimmed the first time. That wasn't Ms. Byrd's fault. She keeps the text light, clear, and witty. There are quick essentials for getting started, but there are also clues as to what carvers will find as they delve deeper into the craft. I will keep this book handy for a long time. Do NOT skip the chapter on "self care." There is some hard-won wisdom there. Don't get injured by over-enthusiasm and knock you out of the craft just as you are getting into it!

I want to carve a bowl ,this is Just the book I need !

Well written and topics such as work holding are really well covered

I had carved 3 or 4 bowls prior to buying this book based on information from the web and magazine articles, so I had some basics down. Danielle covers the whole process from sourcing fresh wood to finished product. The book is organized a little differently than other how-to books, which I found really refreshing and kept me engaged. She included valuable information on taking care of your hands and body through the process. Thoughtfully written to help a newcomer into bowl carving. She has a knack of making you hear her words off the written page, as though she were in the same room talking directly to you.

Pour prendre connaissance de cet aspect passionnant de la sculpture sur bois!

Danielle has shared an enormous amount of information in this book. Not just how to carve a bowl, but knowledge about wood, tools and even exercises to protect your body.