I love this book, I ordered it from Tools For Working Wood and it's also available on Amazon.

The book is a hard cover and full of great illustrations and images. The author Jogge Sundqvist walks you through what is needed to carve bowls, wooden ware and many other useful items for the home and garden.

The principal of Slojd is to create self sufficiency in work, from making your own tools, to cutting down a tree or parts of a tree, and processing the wood by hand to bring it to the point of working it into something useful.

 

I have become as of late very interested in wood carving, green woodworking and other bodger type work. I will someday build a pole lathe as well.

Jogge walks you through the processes from which tools to purchase for carving, how to keep them sharp, and how to use the special Swedish knife grips that look very intimidating at first, but once you study how ingenious the grips are, and the natural safety stops in place to prevent from cutting oneself, it all makes sense and I cannot wait to get a hold of some green tree limbs and start splitting and working the wood with hatchet and knives.

 

I give this book a big thumbs up. Enjoy!

I have had Jogge's father, Wille's, book for a long time.  Likewise, I never knew there were so many grip for a knife depending upon rough vs. fine cut, direction of grain, etc.

 

3 hours ago, kmealy said:

I have had Jogge's father, Wille's, book for a long time.  Likewise, I never knew there were so many grip for a knife depending upon rough vs. fine cut, direction of grain, etc.

Keith, what a wonderful book as well!

I reviewed that one too at: