The Shipcarver's Handbook

The classic text on carving sternboards, billetheads, trailboards, eagles, dolphins, rope borders, a variety of letter styles, and more. Learn design, and lettering, set-up and carving techniques, the best woods to use, tools and sharpening, finishing, plus gold leafing.

This is a well-illustrated guide, that will inspire both the amateur and the professional. The late Jay Hanna was a carver for over 40 years, whose work continues to hang in museums.

Originally published as The Marine Carving Handbook.

Table of Contents:

An Old and Honored Art

Woods for Marine Carving

First Tools and a First Project

Sternboards

Banner and Ribbon Ends

Dolphins

Rope Borders

Billetheads and Fiddleheads

Trailboards

Stern Eagles and Other Birds

Other Uses of Decorative Carvings

Finishes

Tools and Sharpening

by Jay Hanna
108 pp., hardcover
7 x 10"
ISBN # 0-937822-14-0