Booleans are bad because they don't work. They are very temperamental, eg causing your geometry to disappear. They also inevitably result in bad topology, and you need to be very careful when cleaning up after them. They usually create more work than they're worth. Thanks for laying it out. I will make it a point to avoid them. This is the first app. I've used that had good Boolean power and thought they were heaven sent. Detaching faces? At first I just wanted an indentation for the mouth like daverave showed me. Then when the detach solution was suggested, I thought I'd angle the jaw down a bit, then use the Merge function to re-attach vetices. Thanks for pointing me at the tutorials page. I've purchased Pilot Girl, Red Girl, and a monster whose name I can't remember. That's how I found this Forum. Between this Forum, the purchased projects, and YouTube, I'm discovering a lot of techniques. The Tool Bars are no longer a dense mystery.