[Woodcarver] What have you been working on?

[Joe Dillett]

Hi Donna,

If I get some time, after next week's GOW, I may post some pics. Until then 
the GOW's captured most of my time. Party Time......

Joe Dillett
The Carving Shop
645 E. LaSalle St. Suite 3
Somonauk, IL. 60552

(815) 498-9290 phone
(815) 498-9249 fax
http://www.thecarvingshop.net [business web site]
http://www.carvingmagazine.com ['Ask Joe' column]
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna Menke" <donpbk at yahoo.com>
To: "[Woodcarver]" <woodcarver at six.pairlist.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Woodcarver] What have you been working on?



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> Joe-

> That sounds like a wonderful project. It would be great to see it as you 

> are working on it. Have you thought about making a blog so we could watch 

> how it develops? If not, at least a page where we can see updates every so 

> often? That would be a great learning experience for us.

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> Donna Menke

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> ----- Original Message ----

>> From: Joe Dillett <jdillett at thecarvingshop.net>

>> To: [Woodcarver] <woodcarver at six.pairlist.net>

>> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 8:09:47 AM

>> Subject: Re: [Woodcarver] What have you been working on?

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>> I've been getting ready for the GOW which startes on Monday.

>> It will be different not having it here at my shop. It's growing larger

>> every year. This year we have 17 awesome instructors plus

>> myself. There's a lot of stuff I have to take to the Sandwich Fair 

>> Grounds,

>> where we moved the GOW. We still have room for more. Come and join us. 

>> You do

>> not have to sign up early, just come, register and jump into a class. 

>> Check it

>> out at http://www.camperjohn.com/GOW08_main.html .

>>

>> Last week was the Sandwich Fair. My apprentices and I had a

>> large display booth where we demonstrated from Wednesday through Sunday. 

>> I

>> began working on a large relief (24 X 60) of the Last Supper. It is all

>> one piece of mahogany that was lumbered out by hand with a chain saw

>> about 20 years ago. The fellow who lumbered it out was very skilled. The

>> thickness ranged only from 2-1/4 to 1-3/4 over the entire 76-inch length. 

>> A

>> missionary brought it back from Guatemala and gave it to me about 5 years 

>> ago.

>> It had only a slight bow before I began. Carving the background from the

>> heart side, to about a 1-inch depth, has removed all the bow. I plan

>> to keep the chainsaw marks on the back to preserve the history of the

>> board.

>>

>> Normally my Last Supper scenes include the backdrop of the

>> upper room. On this one the figures are raised from the background about 

>> 1 inch

>> and I plan to carve faces of modern-day saints and modern-day

>> people in shallow relief throughout the

>> entire background.

>>

>> Joe Dillett

>> The Carving Shop

>> 645 E. LaSalle St. Suite

>> 3

>> Somonauk, IL. 60552

>>

>> (815) 498-9290 phone

>> (815) 498-9249 fax

>> http://www.thecarvingshop.net [business

>> web site]

>> http://www.carvingmagazine.com ['Ask

>> Joe' column]

>> http://community.webshots.com/user/joe_dillett

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>>  Weather to nice, I guess people are working in the yards.  I'm  learning 

>> to

>> chainsaw carve, got a Makita 12" chainsaw made of carving and  having 

>> lots of

>> fun making chips.  Getting ready to do my first crafts  fair in 10 years,

>> building up carving and scrollsaw crafts inventory.

>>

>>

>> Arthur

>> carving in Oregon

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>> are the boards really this slow or have I been having trouble receiving

>> messages.   I am really beginning to wonder.

>>

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