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  Written by a professional woodturning instructor with over a decade’s teaching experience, A Lesson Plan for Woodturning is a systematic, skill-building introduction that helps beginning woodturners master basic woodworking techniques on their own.
  
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• Chainsaw Carving: The Art & Craft, 2nd ed

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  Get inspired to create your own chainsaw art with the help of author and artist Hal Macintosh as he guides you through the chainsaw basics and step-by-step projects that show you how to create "scratch drawings," relief and pierced relief carvings, step-cut carvings, life-sized three-dimensional carvings, and totem poles. An extended photo gallery features the works of 23 chainsaw carvers, and this expanded edition includes new projects with detailed line drawings that show you how to make eight craft projects out of one log, as well as benches, planters, and fire wood holders. You'll find that everything imaginable can be created by a skilled chainsaw artisan -- glass-topped tables, stately bed frames, old-world Santas, soaring eagles and more.

• TURNING BOWLS WITH RICHARD RAFFAN *REPRINTING REORDER 2/28*

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  Irish gives carvers, woodburners and painters a wide variety of designs they can transfer directly to projects or use to develop ideas of their own. Included are detailed outline patterns that can be used as is or copier enlarged. Irish shows how to enhance woodworking projects with simple to elaborate carving, burning or painting. This is not a how to carve book but rather a resource for those who wish to enhance their projects with creative accents.