Teach yourself to carve with this conveniently packaged all-in-one kit, which includes a wood spirit study stick guide, a basswood blank to practice on, and a 16-page step-by-step instructional booklet with 50 photos that gives detailed direction for carving the mouth, eyes, nose and ears.

Jan Oegema lives in Bowmanville, Ont., Canada. For more of his work, visit www.janscarvingstudio.com.

Stick is perfect and worth having, but booklet is not consistent with the stick and is hard to follow.