Get the straight talk about carving wood including:

• Choosing the right tools and accessories
• Getting started-everything from selecting wood and setting up your space, to the basics of carving and the principles of design
• The easy-to-learn craft of chip carving and its variations for making borders, lettering and rosettes
• Traditional relief carving and techniques for creating fans and shells, an acanthus leaf or scenes of nature
• Designing and carving realistic, 3D bust, duck decoy or ball-and-claw foot.