[Woodcarver] When should a carving be retired from competion?

[Mike Gratton]

Vic, (and everyone else)

Excuse my ignorance, I'm very much a newbie, but there
aren't requirements for what can be entered?  I had
assumed something like only carvings that had been
completed that year could be entered or that once
they'd won, they couldn't be re-entered unless it was
a progressive show where all the winners in an area
competed against one another.   Are there ANY
requirements for how often something can be entered? 
Or do different shows have different requirements?

mikeg
--- Victor Hamburger <VHamburg at bellatlantic.net>
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> I was reading the new issue of Chip Chats in bed
> last night and found YET 
> ANOTHER picture of an oft-pictured carving done by a
> well known carver.  The 
> caption indicated that the carving had won a prize
> at a show, probably the 3rd 
> or 4th time it had been entered in a large show and
> the same number of ribbons 
> awarded to it.  It is an excellent carving, no
> doubt, but the question that came 
> to my mind was, "How often should a carving be
> entered in a show before being 
> retired from competition?"
> 
> This particular carver is a nice guy, a good
> teacher, and consistantly wins 
> ribbons for his carvings.  I have no problem with
> that.  I DO have a serious 
> question though about how many ribbons are too many
> for a carving? If 2-3 
> carvings show up for a show in the same category,
> and each has already won a 
> number or ribbons, what happens to the carver who
> doesn't get to many shows but 
> has put a lot of time and effort into a carving that
> might well garner a ribbon 
> except that it is now competing against carvings
> that have already been awarded 
> ribbons at other shows? Very likely the judges
> recognise the carver's style and 
> maybe even that it has been a previous winner.  I
> suspect the chances are 
> lessened for the lone carver and he/she may become
> discouraged that they are 
> always competing against the "circuit" carvers, the
> ones who continually take 
> their top carvings to a number of shows each year. 
> To be fair, I expect the 
> judges do not award ribbons solely on who carved the
> piece, but I still have the 
> uneasy feeling that there may be some bias in the
> contest.  Chip Chats often has 
> the same carving pictured in several shows each
> issue, so I am not picking on 
> any one carver here, but the carvers who enter a
> number of shows each season.
> 
> Some carvers don't compete at all, ribbons and
> competition mean little to them. 
> Some of us compete infrequently, and an occasional
> ribbon is a nice reminder 
> that someone likes our work besides our spouses. And
> lastly some folks compete 
> but retire a piece after one or two ribbons, while
> some seem to enter the piece 
> into every competition that they can.
> 
> Do any shows prohibit previous winners (of other
> shows) from entering the piece 
> in competition?  When is "enough is enough" in your
> mind?
> 
> 	Vic H
> 
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