I bought two books from amazon and thought they were good and that I wuold have a good idea of what I was doing. But when I started I found that I had to keep looking at different pages and then nothing looked the same as it did in the book.

My best reccommendation is to rent a video from your library and watch it. I found two of them that were very good. It made it 100 times easier to understand.

After I watched them I found that butchering my own meat was not only better, but cheaper and sort of relaxing to do.

I think that the butchers take part of the loins when they do them for you.