The Art Of Chip Carving is an easy to follow stepbystep guide to one of the worlds most ancient and widely practiced forms of woodcarving.ampamp10Anyone from the completely inexperienced beginner to the veteran craftsperson can learn to use simple inexpensive tools and techniques to carve striking decorative designs in wood. Chip carving is an especially good introduction to working wood for the inexperienced because of its low costofentry and because it puts the most essential concepts of woodworking front and center safety precision and how understanding the nature of the wood itself leads to successful results.ampamp10This guide is loaded with the technical information you need to start chip carvingthe few tools you need and how to sharpen them how to select and prepare wood for carving how to transfer carving patterns how to carve safely and precisely and how to read and understand wood grain. Clay also teaches the basics of good carving technique provides stepbystep guidance through two practice boards to build your skills and then walks you through ten beginner projects that allow you to put your skills to use.ampamp10The Art Of Chip Carving goes beyond any other howto manual by introducing techniques and projects for learning freehand carving and how to use the simple shapevocabulary of chip carving to create your own carving designs in the style of traditional European folk carvings.