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Acanthus Carving and Design  by Bob Yorburg and Hans Sandom, Illustrator
Schiffer Publishing, 2010.
$24.99; 128 pp.

Acanthus Carving and Design is a book full of color step-by-step photos as well as helpful line drawings. The book provides information on preparation and design, in addition to detailed steps to draw and carve acanthus scrolls and leaves. Two projects - a bread board and a pierced panel - are included, along with a photo gallery to provide more inspiration. There is also a section on sharpening your tools and finishing your carvings. The subheading for the chapter titled Getting Started is “It Is Easier Than You Think”. Those are some encouraging words.

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I just want to celebrate that Roy Underhill (reverently referred to by many hand tool enthusiasts as "Saint Roy") is coming out with a new book! Yes! His last book, The Woodwrights Apprentice was published in 1996, so it has been much too long! The new book is titled The Woodwrights Guide: Working Wood with Wedge and Edge. It looks like it will be available in November. I cant wait!

Details on the new book are available at the University of North Carolina Press website.

If you have seen my library link, you have probably figured out that I love books. Well, I can honestly say that Roys books are my all-time favorites. If you have never read Roys books, you are missing out on the best of the best! Seriously, I have read them all multiple times and continue to enjoy and learn from them. If you ever have the chance to see Roy live - do it! I was lucky enough to spend three days listening, watching and learning from Roy at a seminar in Anchorage and my woodworking has never been the same again.