With more than a dozen projects, Carving on Turning will introduce you to the many possibilities of how carving can enhance and beautify your woodworking. Featuring several carving styles, such as relief carving, carving in the round and piercing, the manual teaches readers how to add decorative marks to a bowl, how to transform a plain breadboard with a simple design, how to apply lettering to a curved surface, add low-relief carving to a milking stool and bedpost, add decorative elements to furniture, add a 3-dimensional form to a box, use pierce carving on a mirror & plate, and shape a smooth pestle and mortar. The first book of it's kind, Carving on Turning originated from a series of articles in Woodturning Magazine. Carvers will love this book as it proves how easily curved surfaces can be carved. Turners will appreciate the easy-to-understand carving instruction that Chris Pye is so well-known for.

Chris Pye has been a professional woodcarver for than 25 years and is a member of the Master Carvers Association. His work is done mainly to commission, with clients including HRH the Prince of Wales. It ranges from architectural moldings to figure carving, furniture to lettering, bedheads and fireplaces. He has also written extensively about woodcarving for several magazines.

Most turners that I know do an excellent job with their turning talents but leave their projects on the lathe until finished. Author Chris Pye blends two beautiful woodworking disciplines, turning and carving into a masterful art and Fox Chapel helped him share it with us.

Should you be adept at multi-tasking this is the book for you. Chris Pye seems to know exactly how to convert a simply turned platter into a work of art by simply applying the right carving tools in the right way and the right place. If this seems to be a complicated process, fear not, the author makes the process almost, but not quite, a routine process. Pye opens the book by showing the reader the many and varied types of standard carving tools as well as the basic turning gouges and chisels. Author Pye shows you how to carve both low and high relief carving and supplies example projects for you to easily follow. His close to 20 years of turning and carving experience is shared in easy to read words and pictures. Excellent color photography completes the learning process. This is a beautiful way to finish off a plain Jane turning project.

Carving on Turning introduces woodworkers to the many possibilities of how carving can enhance turned objects. Written by professional carver Chris Pye, the book features several carving styles, such as high and low relief, carving in the round, pierced relief, and lettering, plus provides a comprehensive introduction to carving tools, the cuts each make, and how to handle and sharpen tools. For those new to carving, there's even a handy full-size chart that illustrates the cutting edge profiles of carving tools.

This newly appeared book is united the first of its type and the author Chris Pye therein two skilled-labor wood preparations - Drechseln and carving. It describes basic technologies and gives a survey to tools and remedies. Turner, but also
blunders receive an insight through this book respectively into the other technology without must itself through dry theory rolling. Chris Pye was restricted in the introducing chapters to few sides and concentrated on the essential. These are
the simple and rather traditional projects, everyone being based on gedrechselten forms that are brought by carving to the completion. The reader finds a dozen in this book therefrom. Under other sun shell one (see to the left), a scarf edge
with notch writing, bed post, Rosette, milk stool or a can with frog sitting on that. Also the preparing of a simple wound is described in detail. The mode of operation is represented through photos and sketches to the single projects in
addition and will lead first attempts with the carve irons so quite quickly to the desired success. The desire on further works is preprogrammed and actually is would damage it that Chris Pye in this book did not join also another gallery at
exemplary works of other artist. Carving on Turning will combine would want however certain to the standard work for that, that reversed the technology of the Drechselns with that of the carving, or also, and seek for this an optimal entry.