Excerpt from Easy Lessons in the Art of Practical Wood Carving: Suited to the Wants of Carpenters, Joiners, Amateurs and Professional Wood Carvers; Being a Practical Manual and Guide to All Kinds of Wood Carving; Including Chip Carving, Flat Carving, Incised Work and Figure CarvingThe section on Chip Carving, with the illustrations and designs given, is in a measure a complete treatise in itself, and may be reckoned as such by the amateur workman who does not care to follow up the art to a higher plane.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.