[Woodcarver] Totem Pole Carving

[Joe Dillett]

Great story Doug. That's 'Arm Twisting' developed to an art form along with
the tools necessary to do the job.

May the warm memory remain with you always.

Joe Dillett
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug & Carol Rowe" <drowe at auracom.com>
To: "[Woodcarver]" <woodcarver at six.pairlist.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 6:07 AM
Subject: [Woodcarver] Totem Pole Carving


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> I'm having a great experience and want to share my fun with you so that if
> you get the chance, you won't hesitate like I did.
>
> About a year and a half ago, a camping club that helps maintain a Scout
Camp
> near here asked me to come to their assistance.  One of their members had
> started a totem pole for the Scout Camp then suddenly died.  Could I help
by
> either finding a totem pole carver who would work for nothing or would I
> finish the pole for them?  I dithered and waffled all summer until the bad
> weather came then settled back hoping the job would be offered to someone
> else.  A phone call in the winter finally got me to agree to at least look
> at the pole and decide what needed to be done.  In the spring I drove the
> 150 Km to the Scout camp and found an old electric utilities pole on a
> makeshift stand, wrapped in plastic.  After opening the plastic and being
> begged I tried one more time to get them to find another carver because my
> tools kit is designed to carve charactures and small relief carvings. No
> problem they said and opened a Tool Box with a tool roll containing  23
full
> size Ashley-Ines carving tools, all fairly sharp, a power hone, two
mallets
> and some other carving stuff.  What could I say I was hooked.
>
> We went to the scout camp two more weekends and carved for about 5
> hours each day for a total of 6 days and the only trouble I had was saying
> no thank you to some of the beers the camping club members kept bringing.
>
> This winter, I am building the wings and beak for the Thunderbird on top
and
> I will have one more weekend of carving this spring.  It will then be up
to
> the camping club to paint, plant and present the totem pole to the scout
> camp.
>
> This has been and continues to be a rewarding experience so my advice to
all
> of you is if you can find any time to do a bit of carving for your
> community, do it.  You will get back five times what you give.
>
> Doug
>
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