If you always wanted to make a ship in a bottle this is a good book to start with. It is clearly written and easy to understand. It comes with lots of full color photos and takes you through the whole process clearly and easily.

This book shows you step by step how to carve the hull of the ship and how to add the details and it also shows you how to rig up your ship so you can get it in the bottle. It comes with brief explanations and drawings of some of the more popular types of ships. And what is really useful is that it comes with templates for several types of ships. You can copy these, print them up and use them to create your ship - including the sails that you cut out and use.

Nice section on how to make realistic looking water in the bottle and at the end of the book is a photo gallery of some wonderful ships in bottles.