Re: need instruction books I found a good book on shore bird carving on ebay. I've got it in my shop, but I forget the exact name. It has a heron pattern. I carved a few herons from a copy of a picture. I enlarged it as big as I could on the copier, then cut it in 4ths and enlarged it more until it was about life-size, and traced it onto my wood for the silhouette, then took very small and thoughtful detail cuts as I looked at the original picture as well as Audubon books etc.
Have fun with it!
Wade |