[Woodcarver] Round Robin Carving

[Loren Woodard]

Patti:

 

Thanks for the short stroll down memory lane.  Those round robin carvings
were fun.  

 

From: woodcarver-bounces at carverscompanion.com
[mailto:woodcarver-bounces at carverscompanion.com] On Behalf Of Patti Landmann
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 10:58 AM
To: woodcarver at carverscompanion.com
Subject: [Woodcarver] Round Robin Carving

 


Not sure who may still be on this list but I'll go on with this anyway....

 

Yesterday was our annual show and so I brought along my short dowel display
of the round robin carvings from 1998-99.   I do this every couple of years
or so.   Yesterday,  the round robin caused more interest in a single item
on the table than I have seen in awhile.   I must have told the story of
those segments 100 times during the day.   (Do you think that meant the rest
of my table was boring???)  I sure hope not.   

 

Anyway just wanted to say that reliving the nerves,  excitement and just
plain fun that those segments brought to me was a very cool thing.   Thanks
to Len Dillon,  Bill Russell and Loren Woodward for some history that still
brings smiles to many and great memories to me.

 

For those who may not know....The Round Robin Segments were regular
(typical) cane segments divided into  four areas using the corners.   A
theme is decided,  we did Santas first,  I think.   so each of the carvers
(4) carves a Santa on one corner of the segment and then mails it off to the
second person on the list,  shortly in the mail,  carver number one receives
a segment with a Santa already carved on the corner, at this time carver
number one carvers a Santa on the next available corner and mails it off to
the second person on the list.   When the segment arrives with three Santas
completed on the segment, carver number one carves the last corner and that
is the segment carver number one gets to keep.   So each carver ends up
carving 4 Santas on 4 different segments resulting in 4 completed segments
one for each participant.  Not as confusing as I make it sound,  I'm sure,
cause I got it figured out.   Anyway we ended up doing Santas,  Native
Americans,  Pretty Women (Ha Ha Ha) and Caraicature (sp?).   So my dowel has
4 segments with 16 carvings...quite unique and fun to look at and certainly
interesting to talk about. 

 

Hope this  hasn't been too boring to the masses but wanted to tell those who
may still be on the list that they were stars of the show yesterday.   A few
took pictures so who knows,  a whole new round robin may start up somewhere
out there....I can almost promise it will be fun.

 

Patti Landmann 
lowvillecarver at yahoo.com <mailto:lowvillecarver at yahoo.com >   

 

http://www.picturetrail.com/lowvillecarver.............for carvings, family
and more 
http://lagrandmama.blogspot.com/...........for my Grandma experiences 
http://picasaweb.google.com/lowvillecarver...........for Bird, Deer & Flower
Photos from our house
http://www.centuryinter.net/treasures/.........for my old dated web
site,still good stuff:

 

 

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