Take Your Carving to the Next Level with the Speed and Control of Power Tools

If you've been thinking about trying your hand at power carving, or are looking to expand your power carving skills, this collection of the best power carving projects and articles from the pages of Woodcarving Illustrated is exactly what you need. Featuring a stunning gallery of work and a complete buyer's guide, and covering everything from the basics of safety to the strategy for texturing feathers, this book offers expert information, insight, and inspiration from today's top power carvers, including Frank Russell, Jack Kochan, Lori Corbett, and Kenny Vermillion. The professional advice and the sheer beauty of these 16 projects make this a "must-have" reference for any power carver.

The projects featured in the Best of Woodcarving Illustrated: Power Carving Manual include:

• Walking Stick Wizard
• Santa Caricature
• Contemporary Primitive Loon Decoy
• Decorative Cardinal
• Wood Wizard Cypress Knee
• Maple Leaf Earrings
• Maple Leaf Pin
• Collapsible Telescoping Rod
• The American Woodcock
• Killdeer
• Black Bear
• Carving Realistic Habitats
• Carving Habitat: Twig
• Carving a Dogwood Leaf
• Carving Habitat: Mushroom
• Relief Carve a Whimsical House

Woodcarving Illustrated is the leading how-to magazine for woodcarvers and features original patterns, helpful tips, and expert techniques from today's top woodcarving artists along with stunning projects that inspire the imagination.

Featuring 16 projects from the pages of Woodcarving Illustrated, crafters will learn all about the various benefits of carving with power tools and how to master this technique. Additional information about power units, hand pieces, carving burs, materials shopping, and maintenance advice, as well as the particular techniques associated with each type of tool is included. Additional lessons are given on detailing more intricate pieces, such as bird feathers and animal fur. Illuminated by color photography, each project includes step-by-step instructions and original pattern designs for a black bear, an oak leaf pin, a buck with antlers, an assortment of birds, a house sign, a folk art Santa Claus, and an engraved gunstock. The popular wood artists that contributed projects to this resource include Frank Russell, Jack Kochan, David Sabol, Lori Corbett, Ed Priby, and Bill Janney.

A package arrived in the mail yesterday from Fox Chapel that could change the way I carve. I have been a devoted hand tool carver since the beginning ... no mallets, no routers, no chain saws for me.

I think in the five or so years I have been on the message board I have reviewed one other book ... this book deserves to be my second review.

The book inside the package just grabbed my attention. It arrived just before dinner and only the knowledge that you don't hold a book in one hand and a mayo-ketchup cheeseburger in the other made me wait until after the dishes were done.

"Power Carving Manual" is a new release by Fox Chapel that has stuffed into it's 150 pages 16 of the very, very, very best Wood Carving Illustrated Magazine articles focusing on power carving. Everything you could want to know, every question you have plus a great assortment of ideas and themes to carve is here.

I like that several topics as tools, carving tips and safety are repeated through the articles. Hearing this important information from two or three different authors makes it quick, easy and very understandable.

A few of the basic chapters are:
Safety
A Guide to Power Carving Tools
Choosing the Right Bit
Carving assessories
The Basics of Power Carving
Collapsible Telescoping Rod for your shaft tool

There's a great chapter by Jack Kochan that shows you each carving bit in action. Frank Russell takes you step-by-step through how to create, layer and texture and wood burn the details of feathers. Lori Corbett follows right along with a chapter on Texturing Strategies for Bird Carvers.

And projects !!!!!

There's a classic santa, primitive loon decoy, a really great wood spirit walking stick, a painted killdeer, an American woodcock, a set of three delightful mushrooms, a whole bunch more ... and my favorite ... a whimsical house by Jim Cline! This books is just over stuffed with projects!

So how good is this book really ... I was just going to browse through it before Grey's Anatomy came on the TV ... OK??? So does anyone know if the guy with the tumor on his spine lived??? I think I missed everything but the first three minutes of the show because I was Power Carving!

I bought this book to have enough into to pursue power carving on my own. It provided detailed information on equipment and safety. The part of the techniques is reduced to a couple of pages. It invests at least 3 articles (several pages) on how to carve feathers. These chapters may be very important for someone interested in carving birds. The projects are very interesting!