Happy 2015 Woodcarvers of Las Vegas !

Our first monthly meeting of the year was last Saturday at Woodworkers Emporium
Our meeting was attended by 5 members and 3 visitors who happened to be visiting the store and admired our new display case.

Our meeting started in the parking lot with us all enjoying the treasures Dennis brought. A woman had contacted him about some wood she wanted to donate to the club. He was good enough to pick it all up and bring it to the meeting.

 

There were wood rough outs of fish and birds, Many wood branches, wood slabs, and Manzanita wood root burl.

THANK YOU DENNIS !

 

After we all loaded our treasures we went inside where Rod and Scott shared their latest carvings. Rod had a wooden dollar and a new nude. Sorry Scott that my phone died before I could get a photo of your new caricature.

 

Hope to see you all next month.

SPECIAL NOTICE !!!

Yesterday Dennis finished and installed our display cabinet in the Woodworkers Emporium. www.woodworkersemporium.com/  A very special Thank You to them for donating the space!

Club members Rod, Dennis, Scott, and Randy put the first carvings on display to help fill the cabinet.
We will rotate the display every other month of so , as new carvings arrive. Lets carve guys !

Woodcarvers' of Las Vegas November Meeting ---

 Our monthly meeting was last Saturday at Woodworkers' Emporium with 7 members in attendance.
Our meeting produced no wood chips this month but lots of good conversation and some Great show and tell.

Ted brought some extra carving tools to sell.
John brought his "new style golf ball " handle. He  uses this style handle on his files and has converted it to some of his carving tools with great success. Here is his jig to drill the golf ball.

 

Scott treated us to a show and tell of some of his Christmas carvings. Lots of wonderful ideas.

 

 

Mike also brought his latest two Celtic carvings. Such great work !

 

And in the novelty class Randy brought his two sided hummer/donkey carving.

 Just flip over to see each side.

Happy Holidays to you all. See you next month.

October Meeting

Our regularly scheduled meeting was held at Woodworkers Emporium on Arville here in Las Vegas last Saturday the 25th. Unfortunately, the only "regular" members of the group was Dennis and myself!  We were well attended by the woodcarving group from Anthem (Henderson area) who came to visit.  They meet in their clubhouse every Tuesday and Saturday and welcome visitors.  Contact either Dennis or Randy for times and location.

The time was spent making chips …..

and making sawdust.

With a fair amount of hints and story telling thrown in for good measure!

     Our woodcarving group meets every 4th. Saturday of the month so do mark your calendars and set up a reminder in electronic device of your choice so you can come to the scheduled meetings.  The time is 9:30 am until 11:30.  If you haven't had the chance to respond to the questions that Randy sent out earlier please remember to do that so that he and Dennis know the direction you'd like the group to take.

September Meeting--

Another great meet with 5 new members attending their first meeting. WELCOME !
Our attendance was 12 a new all time high. Lets hope this is a sign of times to come.

Dennis  started our meeting with show and tells from Scott Bigler, Rod Dickerson, and himself.

Dennis passed out a Christmas Santa face ornament project to get the holiday spirit started. Maybe we can get 1 or 2 projects done before the holidays.
At the end of the meeting Mike Cook treated us with his Celtic Cross carving. Great job Mike !

August Meeting  ---

Well sorry to say there is little news to post today.  Randy was late sending out the e-mail reminder for todays meeting and only 4 members and two visitors attended.
One of our visitors was a carving teacher from an  Anthem woodcarving club, and the other was the president of the Las Vegas wood turners.

Lets hope next month is back to normal.

JULY 2014 MEETING--

Our July meeting had our best attendance since our first meeting with a total of 10!
We also added one new member. Welcome Al.
Dennis supplied us all with  basswood blanks for our Shell relief carving lesson.
Again a  special thanks to Dennis.

We were all able get our carvings 1/2 to 3/4 complete. Homework again to get them finished.
Plans were discussed to find a Christmas project, with Scott and Dennis taking the lead. Santa's' here we come.

We were also treated to a show and tell of two great projects. John Eugster with a carved wooden shirt and Neal Grossman with a relief  carved landscape.
GREAT JOB GUYS !

SEE YOU ALL NEXT MONTH