WOODCARVERS OF LAS VEGAS


Welcome to 2016 with our first meeting of the year. We had a nice attendance of 8 members and 3 visitors. There was a lot of discussion about knife sharpening techniques with Scott doing demonstrations on his method. ( too bad it was not on his knives). He was generous enough to do 2 for Randy and 1 for Mike.

Mike brought in 2 knives he had recently made and 1 blank blade he had just purchased. They were very reasonably priced from $17-$25 per sharpened blades, ready for handles. The company's name if shown on this card. DEEPWOODS VENTURES.

Rod also treated our visitors with his lady faces/ dragons carving he is working on. Another beautiful piece.

Hope to see you next month.

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 First I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas, and a wonderful time with your family.

Our December meeting was at Dennis's shop with an attendance of 5.  Sorry you missed getting to see his shop. Thanks Dennis !

Being in the Christmas spirit Rod brought a Madonna with child that he recently purchased that was carved about 130 years ago in Bulgaria.   

Then Bob and Scott brought new cottonwood bark carvings to share. Bob's was a multi level lighthouse.

Dennis carved a studious worm in his new apple. Love the tie !

Randy brought his new rose carving and a caricature of -------?

I hope that you enjoy as much as we did ! See you next year.

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We hope you all have a very Happy Thanksgiving and are rested and ready to move on to your Christmas shopping and Celebrations.

Our December meeting was a little light with 5 members and 2 guests. ( possible new members).

  Rod shared 3 of his great female carvings. You can check one out in the display case in Woodworkers Emporium.

Scott donated a nice aspen board and Dennis spent Thanksgiving carving our club name in it.

Thanks Scott and GREAT JOB Dennis.

Our December meeting will be a road trip to Dennis's shop . Woodworkers Emporium will be closed on December 26th.

Happy Holidays to you all.

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Our October meeting  was today and it was our LARGEST GROUP yet.  Thanks to Bob Pearce and his cottonwood bark demo.  We had a new total of 15 people and we hope all or most will return
to our group.
I think  our new members enjoyed learning a new craft and were able to take home a good start on their bark carving.

  We were also again treated to another of Rod's great carvings of a lady and flowers.

And there are no words to describe another of  Mike's Celtic crosses., but to say BEAUTIFUL!

We will have to postpone Len's chip carving demo for now. He is  "back home in Indiana" and won't be back for a little while.
Hope to see you all next month .

Next Bob brought another group of his beautiful cottonwood bark houses. ( demo next month).

Rod brought in another great buffalo carving.

Next some of Len's chip carved boxes.

And to finish off Scott bought our first "club equipment" a "selfie stick".

After 4 or 5 attempts here is your laugh of the day.

Scott and Randy 

Don't miss next months Bark Carving !

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                                              September MEETING NEWS--


First let me say this was our largest meeting with 11 members and 1 visitor dropping in from the store. We had a variety from very large to very small. We had a wood burner, chip carver, bark carver, spoon carver, and Mike Cooks special Black Walnut Celtic Cross.


Lets start large and move down. Here is Mikes Black Walnut cross.

After that beauty we went to our favorite wood burner.

Next to our spoon carver Kirk.

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We had our normal monthly meeting at Woodworkers Emporium last Saturday the 22nd.
Our attendance was our normal 6 with one new member, Zep Sylvis.

Were we treated to some beautiful chip carved boxes by Len. And also a Sassafras cane he also carved to practice faces.

 

 

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