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Table of Contents: Club News Coming Events Meeting Pictures Show and Tell Recommended Resources Dues Reminder Seminars Meeting Location Member Web Page Update

Club News: The club meets twice a month - the first and third Wednesdays at 7pm!      The Club again has members participating in a show sponsored by the St. Charles County Arts Council Along with other artists, three of our club members, John Bouchillon, Wyatt Sample, and Charlie Sapp have carvings that will be on display at the Lillian Yahn Gallery in Wing Haven for the St. Charles County Arts Council's Celebration Americana. Celebration Americana Flyer Wyatt Sample Coming Events: back to table of contents Members will be demonstrating their skills at the St. Charles County Art Council's Celebration Americana at the Art Gallery in Winghaven on July 18 from 1 to 4pm. If you haven't already signed on, just send Charlie Sapp an email to let him know you want to participate. The more the merrier. And keep your calendar open for pumpkin carving at the Oktoberfest in late Sept on the riverfront. Meeting Pictures: back to table of contents In the foreground are club members Paul Medlin and Glenda Tabor working on their own projects. Bill Kuhn provides some advice to other carvers. Bob Berg, Corky Breece and Syl Bax are all hard at it. Tom Mortellaro tries his hand at woodburning. Show and Tell: back to table of contents The first four picture are bottle stoppers Dick Weber has been making as gifts for some of his wine drinking friends. Dick Weber carved the Cotton Wood Bark house in a Rick Jensen seminar in Twinfalls Idaho. He said it was an interesting carving and fun once you get the hang of it. After reading an article in Wood Carving Illustrated Dick Weber carved these 5 minute wizards. He noted that they actually took about 10 minutes to carve and another 10 minutes to paint. They work well as little give aways. Bob Berg carved this Candlelighter at the Rendevous in Branson in an Ed Zinger class. The cane was carved by Bob at the rendevous in a Harold Enlow class. The Happy Holiday Santa was also carved by Bob in an Ed Zinger class. The small Santa head is an original carving by Bob. Bob Berg carved the German accordian player and the Cowboy doctor and Santa from blanks, the Forest Santa was carved in Bob Bierman's class. Ray Plodzien carved the gnome from a blank from Jon Nelson, he carved the Forest Santa in Bob Bierman's class. Corky Breece carved Deadeye and the Chief from a catalpa log which Syl Bax rough shaped for him. The hair and bands are colored lightly with acrylics. The carving was finished with linseed oil and a spray finish and waxed. It is an original carving, also shown is his version of the Forest Santa from Bob Bierman's class. Bill Kuhn carved the ducks which won a ribbon at a recent show, the moose was carved and burned by Tom Mortellaro into a wooden box which he carries his tools in, Mary & John McGinley showed this beautiful gouge chipped tool rack. Glenda Tabor showed the pierced moose relief carving and the pelican which she carved while in Texas. The pelican feathers are woodburned. Syl Bax demonstrated his diverse carving skills with the flower and tomahawk he showed. Paul Medlin carved the anchor and showed his Christmas Horse carved in the Bill Kuhn class. He colored his Christmas Horse with markers. Last but not least in this round of show n tells is John Bouchillion's Santa carvings. Recommended Resources: back to table of contents The following two links are to sources of carving woods. Heineke comes to the Belleville woodcarving show each year and to other shows and provides excellent wood. Slim also comes to the Belleville show and has also attended our woodcarving shows. Heinecke Wood Slim's Woodshed Lynn Doughty is a western carver living in Oklahoma. He does a blog which provides tutorial on how he carves his characters with detailed instruction. There is no cost to the blog. It is a great resource,check it out at Out West Woodcarving. The following pictures are examples of some of the carvings that he gives specific instruction on. Gene Messar is a Flat Plane carver living on the Texas/Louisiana border. He has done a number of videos on youtube demonstrating the carving of santas, snowmen, Rufus and Sadie, hillbilly, wizard, hobo, halloween ghost, a scene with a dog treeing a raccoon in a tree and others. The following is a picture of some of his carvings. Each carving is demonstrated in a series of short videos. If you have high speed internet these videos are free and helpful. It is a great resource, check it out at Whittler0507 Dues: back to table of contents There are no dues at club meetings, but be sure to pay your annual dues.   Check with President Rich Weitzman if you are unsure if you are paid up to date.   -- Club dues are $15.00 per year and include the website and electronic newsletter. Seminars: back to table of contents Corky Breece, Seminar Chairman Corky planned several great seminars in 2008, and will have more in 2009. He has done a great job. Thanks Corky! If you have any suggestions for seminars, please get in touch with him.    For seminars - the doors open in the morning at 8:30am and in the evening at 5:00pm.  Typically classes during the day will be conducted from 9am to 5pm and in the evening from 5:00pm to 9pm.   Ask your instructor for exact times.   ***** Bill Kuhn gave members of the club a reason to try to make all the meetings by surprising the club with a seminar at the June 21st meeting. He brought in blanks he had band-sawed of a Christmas Horse. Club members attending that night had a great time carving the project and Bill walked around giving instructions. Once Bill gave some basic instruction, everyone went to work on their carvings. Bill is shown below giving instruction to Syl Bax. Martha Byron is looking over her Christmas Horse. Meeting Time and Location: back to table of contents Meetings are held at 7:00 p.m. on the first and third Wednesday of each month. The meetings include a brief business meeting followed by a carving session. The meeting location has changed. Meetings are now held at the Weldon Spring Site Remedial Action Project at 7295 Highway 94 South St. Charles, Missouri 63304. Visitors are always welcome! Weldon Spring Department of Energy site.  From highway 40/61 or I-70 exit highway 94 and continue south toward Defiance.  It is just past the Francis Howell High School.  When you see a Quonset hut on the right hand side it is the next driveway / facility. Member Web Pages-Update: back to table of contents New members - be sure to get with Wyatt Sample and provide him with some pictures of your work and a background write up for the website.  All Members, please feel free to update the information for your page on the website any time. Just send an email to the webmaster, Wyatt Sample, (link at bottom of page) with any new information about yourself. Please provide some information about any new carving you want displayed and either send in a digital picture or bring in a picture of your carving to be scanned. You can look through the other member pages to see what type of information others have provided. Contact us for more information on the club or activities.  For questions regarding this Web Site, contact Webmaster: Wyatt Sample