A good knife is all you need to start whittling. Whether you’re in front of a campfire or waiting for a bus, whittling is the creative way to unwind and have fun! In Victorinox Swiss Army Knife Whittling Book , world-famous whittler Chris Lubkemann shows you how to carve useful and whimsical objects with nothing more than an Original Swiss Army® Knife, a twig, and a few minutes of time. Learn to choose your wood, sharpen your blade, and control your knife, with dozens of easy step-by-step projects.

U.S. Military Designs for Woodworking is a creative sourcebook of U.S. military art and offers dozens of full-size patterns for use in Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, and Navy-themed projects. These ready-to-use designs are perfect for use in crafts from scroll sawing and woodcarving to pyrography, papercrafts, and leatherwork. Commemorative insignia are provided for all major modern U.S. military operations, including World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf Wars, and Afghanistan.

More than a woodturning project book. Ed Glenn and Greg Keats demonstrate how to turn a handsome duck call, and include comprehensive insights, revealing the secrets of this American folk art. Turning Custom Duck and Game Calls is a book for woodworkers and outdoors enthusiasts of all kinds—hunters, photographers, conservationists, and game call collectors.

The finishes we use are fundamentally simple, well understood and throroughly predictable materials as Flexner demonstrates in chapters on oils, shellac, lacquer, varnish, water-based and conversion finishes. Wood prep, filling, bleaching, staining and dyeing, selecting a finish and using application tools from rags to sprayguns, rubbing out, maintaining and repairing finishes are covered in depth.