Abstract: A method of making a kit of component pieces of board to be assembled, joined, and finished to reproduce a carving comprises the steps of joining a given number of pieces of board having substantially the same thickness into a multilayer block with an adhesive readily soluble in a solvent, carving the block into an original figure, dissolving the adhesive away from the block with the solvent and thereby separating the block into contoured pieces of board, tracing the contours of the separate pieces on a drawing paper, and then blanking or otherwise cutting a set of reproduced pieces out of a board in accordance with the drawing.