[Woodcarver] The passing of a humble carver

[Larry Odegard]

Thank you for sharing.  What a wonderful tribute to
what must have been a great guy.

Larry O.


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> > Dear Carvers, 

>  

>           My friend and  carving mentor, Charlie

> Post passed away on Fri.   

> Thank you all for  your prayers and sympathy.  His

> suffering has ended.  I 

> think I am  more relieved than sad.  Tomorrow I will

> be sharpening up one of his  

> handmade knives, collecting an unfinished carving

> and taking it with me to the 

>  wake on Tues. There will be a whole bunch of

> carvers there, we will send him 

> off  properly. 

>  

> I wish to share a little something with you. Its a

> wood  story. Friday night, 

> I figured I would go out and have a drink in

> Charlie's  memory but of course 

> at our age, most don't care to go out, or don't

> drink due  to medications, or 

> can't stay up too late.  I myself, lost the taste

> for  liquor years ago and 

> drink very rarely but being Charlie and I are full

> blooded  Irishmen and it 

> being traditional to lament a passing with aged

> Irish whiskey, I  simply had  to 

> spill a drop o' the devils water.  I talked  my

> sister into going with me. Not 

> knowing a good bar to go to, I suggested a  little

> place that I hadn't been to 

> in 20 years, just a bar in a restaurant,  nothing

> spectacular.  It popped 

> into my mind because it was near Charlie's  house

> and I kind of remembered him 

> saying that he "had done a little work" for  the bar

> many years ago.  We go in, 

> sit at the bar, empty except for some  old man

> nursing a rob Roy down at the 

> end. We are looking around the place and  it is

> almost all wood.  Beautiful 

> wainscoting, handmade wooden ceiling  fans, a

> massive wooden bar, real wood plank 

> floors, handmade doors, real  quality stuff.  Now

> you have to understand that 

> Charlie and I only became  friends in the last 5

> years or so, since I began 

> carving.  To me, he  was a decent carver, great

> instructor, talented stained 

> glass  guy.  Prolific??? Passionate???absolutely,

> but would his carvings win at 

> a  world class carving show, to be honest, probably

> not. Bartender  is 

> delighted to have company and starts chatting with

> us.  He asks why of  all bars in 

> the world, we would wind up in this bar.  So I tell

> him, a  woodcarving friend 

> of mine passed away today and I think he may have

> done a  little work here.  

> He asked me his name, I told him.  He then tells me 

> I am sitting in the wrong 

> seat.  I said "excuse me?", not  understanding.  He

> says just move one seat to 

> the right, so I did.  He  then pours me a brandy

> snifter with a good quantity 

> of Jameson Irish whiskey and  proceeds to tell me to

> look down.  I did and 

> what I saw was  incredible.  There was an old golden

> plaque affixed to the front 

> of  the bar and it read.  "this Bar was handcrafted

> by Charlie  Post".  Tell 

> me now, is there anywhere better than that to be

> having a  drink to his 

> memory. He went on to tell me that Charlie did every

> bit of  woodwork in the bar.  I 

> was astonished and in awe. I wanted to go  wake

> Charlie up and yell at him 

> for not letting me know that he had built the  whole

> damn place. I would never 

> have guessed that Charlie was so impressive, a 

> great carver and one hell of a 

> carpenter.  I was so sorry that I couldn't  tell him

> how impressed I was and 

> yell at him for being so humble.  He  passed his

> tools along to me and I will 

> cherish them forever. 

>  

>  It is to my great disappointment that I didn't meet

> Charlie when he  was in 

> his prime, when he was creating masterpieces and I

> am honored that he  felt me 

> worthy of his time and effort.  Anyway, here's to a

> fantastic  carver passing 

> amongst and away from us all, just as cleanly,

> silently and  gently as one 

> thin woodchip, leaves the block and cascades down to

> the  pile. May he rest in 

> peace.  Carve on Charlie

>  

> Maura Carving  in NYC

> _www.carvinginnyc.com_

> (http://www.carvinginnyc.com/) 

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