[Woodcarver] Update from MI - More love for Marnie

[Matt Kelley]

Hello Friends in Wood -

As many of your know,  in addition to Joe's and Dennis's efforts on 
Marnie's behalf,   a number of the students in Marv Kaisersatt's May 
class at Ivan Whillock's studio agreed to carve friendship cane 
segments as part of the fund raising for Marnie.   The members of the 
class have been joined by other carvers to support the effort.

Segments are starting to come in,  so it seems time to update you all 
on the status of the Michigan cane!

Class member Jim Dupont sent the first segment to arrive.  Jim did a 
nifty figure shinnying up the dowel that runs in the center of the 
cane.    Segments from other class members are schedule to arrive by 
mid-July.

A week ago Friday at the Roundup in Evart I received a female head 
segment from "Ol' Don" Burgdorf and a chip carved egg segment from 
Terry Zobl,  an excellent chip carver from the Metro Club here in 
Michigan.

At the PO today I picked up up a box from Jim O'Harra (Grove City, 
OH), whom I had the good fortune to finally meet at the CCA 
competition last fall.   Jim came up with a new wrinkle for 
friendship canes;   three separate segments,  which when stacked 
together in the correct order make up a figure.   Jim carved an Uncle 
Sam based upon a new Marv Kaisersatt  pattern..   Jim did a great job 
on the figure,  which you have to see to really appreciate.   (I'll 
post photos once I figure out where I carefully mislaid the cable for 
my camera.)

So that's five segments in hand with more on the way.   Thanks to Jim 
Dupont, Ol' Don, Terry and Jim O'Harra for their contributions. 
Updates as more segments arrive and photos are available.

Carve On!

Matt


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