Tips & Techniques for Learning a Timeless Craft, Carving your own, wooden bowls is more than just a romantic notion (don't worry, it's that too). Bowl carving is a rewarding way to create beautiful work with your own hands using only minimal tools. For seasoned and beginner woodworkers alike, learning traditional bowl-carving skills provides unparalleled insight to the basic properties of wood behavior and intimate knowledge of how tool edges interact with grain. It's invaluable experience that will improve your skills and techniques across all your woodworking endeavors. Along the way you'll learn tips and tricks that will keep you safe, help you make informed decisions about your own designs, and give you the confidence to take your work in any direction you'd like. The Handcarved Bowl is not simply the designs and techniques outlined here in easy to-follow instructions, it is a gateway to countless projects and a new understanding of working wood. Inside You'll Find: Step-by-step photos and directions for every stage of the bowl-carving process, Instruction in basic bowl forms, which will give you the knowledge to create your own designs, Smart advice on buying, sharpening, and using the few tools bowl carving requires, Exercises and guidance for self-care that will keep you working safely, The knowledge required to find and harvest wood that has the best potential for creating beautiful bowls Book jacket.