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Easy-to-Make Wooden People & Pets with Personality features 31 adorable high-quality wood projects with full-size patterns such as relaxing on a lounge chair, a couple holding hands, a family with kids. High-quality patterns are a scroll-sawyer's bread and butter, and this book is very pattern heavy while still including introductory material for beginners, including wood selection, materials and tools, using the patterns and applying a finish. The projects are free standing and can be made with scrap wood in a short amount of time. Author Jean-Bernard Germe is highly respected as the originator of his aesthetic.

Small-Scale Woodworking Projects for the Home is full of useful, stylish patterns woodworkers can cut on the scroll saw in very little time. From lamps to earrings and wall art to coasters and cupboards, Roshaan Ganief's guide has everything woodworkers need to build their woodworking skills and create stunning art for their home or to give away as gifts. It features a beginner's "Getting Started" section along with 44 projects and patterns that have clean minimalism designs that artists can finish in their own style. It also includes step-by-step instructions and full-color photography to help you along the way. Personalize your home with your own creations with a minimal amount of money and time.

As popular as birdhouses are, many are designed with aesthetics in mind, rather than the bird's preferences and needs. Not so for the projects in Making Bird-Friendly Birdhouses. Lifelong birder Melvin "Bird Man Mel" Toellner and pro woodworker Matt Maguire walk you step-by-step through 15+ projects for safe birdhouses that birds find conducive to their natural nesting habitats. Birdhouses include residences for bluebirds, wrens, robins, chickadees, owls, and even a bat house! With additional sections on distribution maps, detailed plans, mounting instructions, and tips on attracting birds to your yard, this book has everything you need to create a successful backyard haven for the winged friends in your life.

Back in the good old days, amateur crafters would roll up their shirt sleeves and work in their basement or garage workshops on all kinds of home projects. Expert furniture maker Steve Butler wants to bring back that tradition with his do-it-yourself series that celebrates the creative genius in all of us. In the second season, Butler walks you through the simple steps to build classic projects. Learn the tricks and techniques that make even a novice woodworker look like a pro.

Mick Stidever continues his journey recounting his adventures with the craft of Woodcarving. Within this fourth volume he presents a further fifteen carvings from a Wren's Nest to one based on an outstanding carving produced in 1840. He continues to recount his emotions; his highs and lows as he endeavours to achieve the best possible result with each and every carving. At times he succeeds; at other times he falls short but continually he strives to learn more about the craft. Whether he is seen to be improving his skills remains with the reader but for him the journey was thoroughly enjoyable, once again opening many doors to other related experiences along the way. This diary should provide again encouragement, interest and a good read for anyone with a love for the craft of woodcarving. The book is a good and fascinating read and will inspire any carver to widen their horizons and appreciation of woodcarving. Michael Painter A.R.B.S