The Blackhawk Woodcarver
Dear Friends,
Many of us like to see records set. That's one of the interesting things
about sports.
In wood carving and burning there is a unique set of record categories.
What's the shortest time it took to carve or burn something? What was the
longest time it took to finish a project? How long did an idea percolate
until it was started, or abandoned? Or, how long till that idea started
percolating again? What was the most difficult thing you ever tried to do?
The best one for me is how long has a started project sat on a shelf waiting
to be finished? My record is a little over a year, and it's still sitting
there. But, that's not very long from things I've heard on Wednesday
mornings.
There are undoubtedly categories I haven't thought of. And, I bet more than
a few of our club members are setting on some world class records.
Gary Curl
President - Gary Curl, 895-5106
Vice Pres. - Frank Lay, 677-1190
Treasurer - John Skaggs, 547-6951
Secretary - Martha Fitch, 399-2453
Show Co-Chairmen -
Membership - Chuck Drewes,
985-8575
Newsletter Publisher, Gary Johnson 399-1697
Newsletter Editor, Gordy Moscinski, 874-7978
Photographer - Larry Clark, 262-9982
Historian - Elaine Terrell 765-2886
Programs—Bob Matthews 544-2359 &
Denny Neubauer 515-508-9524
Petty Cash—Dona Wisner
Librarian temp -
Picnic -
Tony Devita
Soap Carving –Gary Lundquis
Club Activity Schedule
October 5
open carving
October 12
open carving
October 19
open carving and meeting
October 26
open carving
November 2
open carving
November 9
open carving
November 16
open carving and meeting
November 23
open carving
November30
open carving
December 7
Christmas breakfest
December 14
open carving
December 21
open carving and meeting
December 28
open carving
January 4
open carving
January 11
open carving
January 18
open carving and meeting
January 25
open carving
February 1
open carving
February 8
open carving
February 15
open carving and meeting
February 22
open carving
October Birthdays
(that we know about)
6
Nordine Bolstad
9 Tony Devita
9 Carrie Lay
10 Judie Suit
11 William Shogren
14 Carol Behning
17 Mary Wilder
29 Jack Basford
Deadline for the news for the next newsletter is November 2.
Blackhawk Carving Club Minutes -- September 2016
At 9:02 am the meeting was called to order by Secretary Martha Fitch. Both President Gary Curl and Vice-President Frank Lay were not in attendance. Treasurer John Skaggs was not in attendance.
The reading of
minutes and reports were tabled to the next meeting.
A motion was entered to adjourn the meeting was entered and seconded.
As part of the discussion, 2 items of note were brought up:
1- Don Stansfield reminded everyone that he is teaching a Beginning
Carving Class at CLR. He did not
know if the class had been filled. 2-Bob Matthews brought in wood for sale.
It was left over from the show, and all money belonged to the Club.
He requested that interested persons make him an offer.
He wanted to no longer have this wood stored away.
The Meeting
adjourned at 9:10am.
Minutes
respectfully submitted by Martha Fitch,
Secretary.
Ron
Wells
,fellow carver and
knife maker
and teacher at the silver dollar
city in Branson.
passed away September
23, 2016.
Condolences can be
sent to:
Bertie Wells, HCR 32
Box 1411
Mt. Judea, AR 72655
Door Prizes
Don't forget the Door Prize drawing on First Wednesdays. Bring something
you don't need or want anymore, but know someone would be thrilled to win at
the drawing.
Grace Lutheran Church’s Friday Fun Fest
We need
volunteers to help with soap carving and wood working.
There will be four four week sessions on Fridays. Volunteers should
arrive by 3:30 with session ending at 5:00.
Session 1,
September 30, October 7, 14, 21
2016
Session 2, November 4, 18, December 9, 16
2016
Session 3, January 20, 27, February 3, 10
2017
Session 4, February 24, March 3, 17, 24 2017
Anyone with
questions should talk to me Wednesday mornings.
Richard Dunphey
The Woodcraft Shop, Bettendorf, Iowa
Sharon
Bechtold, woodburning
October 22 and 23, 2016 - $170.00
9-5 on Saturday and 9-4 on Sunday
Chris Hammack,
Caricature Carving
November 26 and 27, 2016—$185.00 plus roughouts
Dave Sharp,
carving & painting an African Lion
December 8,9,10 and 11, 2016 - &175.00 + $15 material fee
For more
information go to www.thewoodcraftshop.com or call toll-free 800-397-2278
The Woodcarver
This is a story of a woodcarver who lived in a house in a
forest with a rabbit and a housemaid.
Among the duties of the housemaid was to dress the rabbit each morning as he
was unable to dress himself. One
day, after they had had their breakfast and the rabbit was dressed, the
rabbit and the woodcarver went out into the forest to find wood that would
be suitable for carving. They
soon found what they agreed was a wonderful piece of wood just perfect for a
wood sculpture.
Unfortunately, they couldn’t agree on what to carve.
The woodcarver wanted to carve a mother sheep feeding her lambs.
The rabbit wanted to see the piece become a wooden Dutch shoe.
Finally, they agreed to let the housemaid decide, so they went back
to the cottage and explained their problem.
The housemaid decided to flip a coin: Heads would mean that the
woodcarver would carve the sheep, tails would mean that the shoe would win.
You can imagine the suspense when she flicked up the coin, caught it
and peeked….
Wood ewe or wooden shoe?
Only the haredresser knew for sure.
Show and Tell pictures by Larry Clark and comments by
Martha Fitch
Louis Jurisch
brought in this outhouse.
Steve Terrill
brought in his carving of a wood spirit.
Bob Matthews
brought in 2 bark carvings: a crazy house and a pumpkin house
Gary Johnson brought in his completed Duck carving.
Larry Stenzel
brought in a wood burning of a squirrel.
An attached card had the following story:
Discovered behind the lesser Sphinx in Egypt.
They will soon open the crypt under this odd structure.
Who knows what treasure will be found?