National Wood Carving School: tutorials

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1. All of our lessons and workbooks are compressed using Adobe Acrobat® (files have a .pdf file extension).

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Welcome new carvers to the tutorials web page.

We offer free introduction tutorials to encourage newcomers to explore the art of woodcarving at no cost.

All our free introduction tutorials are well identified; they provide hundreds of step-by-step free pictures with detailed instructions to learn the fundamentals of woodcarving. All other material will require a 2carve.com password. Password fees and various registration plans are detailed on the Register page.

Click here to view tutorial previews

lesson and project instruction guides

Below is a sample of the high quality material that you will find in all of our lesson and project Acrobat PDF files (Chip Carving Beginner Lesson 2 - Two Sided Chip).

Each page in our lessons and projects easily walk you through the lesson or project. The pages have color high resolution photographs and clear detailed step by step instructions with the convenience of viewing through the Acrobat^® Reader^®.

lesson and project workbooks

Workbooks are created from the lessons and projects for your personal use in your workshop.Workbooks come formatted in black and white for your cost saving while printing. Below is a page sample from Relief Carving Intermediate Project #1 - Lesson 2 - Roses.

Each workbook page has high resolution detailed photographs, clearly written step by step instructions and space on each page for you to make notes as you successfully progress through the lesson or project.