[Woodcarver] Re: Carving Shows

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I go to a woodshow each year and they always have a  contest for the "best in 
show" for furniture. However, there are all sorts  of pieces of furnture 
entered. It's like judging apples, oranges, peaches and  pears.
    To trully judge who has submitted the better piece,  each entrant should 
be given rules for one category/item which they  are to design and build, and 
judge the entries based on that. Who has  designed and executed the better 
piece within the rules and for that  cetegory?
    I think wood carving falls into the same  category. Carvings are so 
diverse, I don't know how anyone can pick one over the  other. 
    At the Ward's World's Championship in the last  few years it seems that 
just a bird sitting on the table,  no  enviornment or anything, has won. Yet, I 
believe there should be a bit more than  just a lone carving setting on a 
table all by its' lonesome at the  world level. Ernie Muhlmatt is a good example 
of  carvring birds  in their natural enviornment. His pieces speak much more 
to me than "just a  carving." 
Tom
Thomas W. Horton
Glen Mills, PA
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