Woodcarver's Guide to Sharpening, Tools and Setting Up Shop (Best of WCI): Expert Tips and Techniques [Paperback]

The best tips and tricks from the pages of Woodcarving Illustrated, this guidebook provides you with all you need to know to create a safe and organized workshop and employ various tools.Compiled from the best tips and tricks from the pages of Woodcarving Illustrated, this guidebook provideswoodworkers with all they need to know to create a safe and organized workshop and prepare and employ various tools.Essays and instruction from such trusted contributors as Roger Schroeder, Lora Irish, and Jack Kochan share everything about mallets, v-tools, and getting the maximum life out of carving tools. Also included are step-by-step instructions explaining the principles of sanding, finishing, gluing, clamping, and much more. The woodcarver's budget is also addressed, in such chapters as Poor Man's Dust Collector. Author Bio: Woodcarving Illustrated is a leading how-to magazine for woodcarvers of all skill levels and has a circulation ofmore than 65,000 readers.Every woodcarver needs sharp tools and an efficient space to work. So, if you've been thinking about setting up a workshop at home to maintain and store your tools, or need to organize the one you have, the Woodcarver's Guide to Sharpening Tools and Setting Up Shop will provide you with all the information you need.Compiled from the best articles of Woodcarving Illustrated, you will find expert tips, tricks, and instruction from such trusted contributors as Roger Schroeder, Lora Irish, and Jack Kochan. Plus, you'll get a peek inside the elite workshops of wildfowl carver Ed Legg and master wood sculptor Ernest Szentgyorgyi to find out how these craftsmen organize their spaces.None of liS in the woodworking centrewould claim to be carvers and my ownexperience is limited to two and ahalf rocking horscs mainly made llsing anarobtec and powcr file. The half represents ahalf finished project which must be completedfor Christmas.However, as we stock a range of carvingtools and timbers we are frequently asked,especially bylÃ)