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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Thanks Kathleen for recalling the days when we had 50+
emails daily and Bill was so excited in getting new members that he listed them
daily and where they were from. I joined in 1995-96 and we learned daily
about all levels of creative art in design to carving. I still enjoy
seeing your work presented quarterly. Just keep the emails coming;
learning is forever. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Ralph Scheffler</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=pyroannex3@yahoo.com href="mailto:pyroannex3@yahoo.com">KathleenM
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 18, 2009 11:56
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Woodcarver] A Burning Question
on Woodcarving</DIV>
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All.</DIV>
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<DIV
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asked last Friday if there were any burning questions on carving, and I have
one for you.</DIV>
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<DIV
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">I
recently found on eBay a carving by Jack Drake for sale at $20,000., I
believe. He is credited in the write-up for inventing in 1972 the use of
pyrography for detailing his carvings. Apparently before that, no one
had thought to do that, and if you wanted to detail your carvings in any other
way besides carving them, you painted them, and these painted carvings were
called "slicks," and, I suppose, still are.</DIV>
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<DIV
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Is
there anyone in this group who remembers painted carving techniques before
1972 and can talk about the beginnings of pyrography for detailing after 1972?
I would be most interested to include some oral history in my next
Pyrograffiti article. Please write to me directly (rather than to the
list) at</DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">pyroart_emuseum@yahoo.com.
I would be most grateful. </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times,
serif">I joined the Northern Virginia Carvers for the first time in 1978 as
their guest speaker on pyrography, and what I brought to show them was
definitely something new for them. I had no idea then
that even detailing was something rather "new" for
them.</DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Re
the great numbers of messages that were recently complained about, remember
when this group was first started (I joined in the fall of 1996)? That
was before there was the digest alternative, and we were getting about 50+
emails a day!!! We were all so excited about everything new on the
internet back then and had so much fun. It was a bit obssessive, but
still.... Even then some complained about the numbers and/or the chat,
but most of us just gave our advice to hit DELETE if you didn't want one,
remember? Those were the days....</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Best
regards,</DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Kathleen
Menendez</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial,
helvetica, sans-serif">Kathleen M. Garvey Menendez</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Falls
Church, Virginia, U.S.A.</DIV>
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<DIV
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Cofounder
Int'l Ass'n of Pyrographic Artists (IAPA)</DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/uniting_pyrographers/</DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><BR></DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Curator,
E-Museum of Pyrographic Art:</DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4029/</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica,
sans-serif">Feature writer for Pyrograffiti in the WOM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">(more
than 50 articles since 1997), latest article:</DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">http://carverscompanion.com/Ezine/Vol13Issue1/KMenendez/KMenendez.html</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">(PLUNA
of Spain and Ernie Thompson (In Memoriam) of U.S.A.)</DIV><BR></DIV></DIV>
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