Pefferly, a third generation carver, offers a guide so thorough that a novice can confidently follow precise and easy-to-understand, step-by-step instructions for creating a carousel horse. Abundant and beautiful color photographs and illustrations are inserted throughout.

Guided by the country?s only professional director of a carousel animal carving school, even the first-time carver can capture the charm and nostalgia of an old-fashioned merry-go-round.

Make nostalgic carved carousel animals--guided by the country's only professional director of a carousel animal carving school. "...walks the reader through the process of creating either a full-sized or miniature carousel horse from planning the project to selecting the proper wood and supplies, to finishing the animal with authentic paint schemes and trim details...illustrated with numerous color photographs showing exact painting details...patterns are presented for 33 animals, including a few...other than horses."--Woodshop News.

Carousel Horse Carving is a title by Fox Chapel Publishing

Carve your own brilliantly painted and bejeweled prancing horses, tigers, storks, camels, mules, goats and other fabulous carousel animals -- 31 original patterns. Exploded diagrams show how to cut and prepare each project.