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[RIKKER]

  Here are 2 sites to start you off.  Ellenwoods.com for instruction and Enasco.com for reasonably priced carving tools.  Woodcraft.com
also for both.  make sure you don't buy a chip carving set.  they are
only for flat surfaces and don't do well on a flat surface.  I suggest
a carvers bolt.  It is a long bolt with a wing nut on the bottom.  It
screws into the bottom of you blank and then goes through a hole in
your bench/ table.  and holds your piece.  a selection of rasps and
riffler files can be bought for a song through harbor freight tools. 
Don't buy you carving tools there theirs are junk.  Good carving tools
will cost you anywhere from $15-$45 each.  Harbor freight does sell a
fairly good rotary carving tool.large motor that hangs on a stand with
a long flex shaft.  P.S.  ALWAYS CUT AWAY FROM YOURSELF.

Woods;  Any very fine
grain wood.  The less grain you can see the better.  ie; soft maple,
bass wood, some alders, birch, apple, pear.  Bad woods; pine(to much
difference between soft pith and hard grian) same for oak, ash,, etc
hickory.
   I hope this helps.

When all is said and done,the less said and the more done the better! 
 
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