Rochester Woodcarvers

Rochester, MN

Rochester Woodcarvers
October-November 2006 Newsletter
Meetings: 9am - 11am on the 3rd Saturday of each month (Sept - April)
May - the meeting is a picnic - look for details as they become available
Redeemer Lutheran Church, 9th Street and 7th Avenue SE, Rochester, MN

December 16th is our Christmas Meeting. True to our past and traditions, we invite our spouses and bring potluck to share, along with a (wrapped) gift to exchange. This gift should be an item related in some way to wood and carving, and will be exchanged for another gift. If you bring a gift, you can take home a gift. Easy as that! Nice gifts, something you think you won't use or that you use rarely, but think someone else might really use and enjoy. We all have some of those around. No "white elephants," no beat-up coffee cups or refrigerator bowls out of the storage shed!

There will not be a speaker or special program, but we will have the "Show & Tell", the library, and we can spend more time gathered around the pot luck, visiting, eating & the enjoying the gift exchange.

Our President Notes:
Thanks for a great turnout of members this fall at our club meetings. A record number of ornaments for the RWC tree were made this year for the Festival of Trees. A big applause should be given to Dennis Tooley and his committee, plus a pat on the back to all of you who made ornaments. Be sure to check out the ornament photos taken by Tom Severson. They're displayed on the RWC website at http://webpages.charter.net/rochcarve/. Click on photos.

Most of us are glad those political TV ads are finished for a while! Something you need to start thinking about in the upcoming months is replacing some club positions for the fall of 2007. The President, Treasurer and some Board positions will be available for new people to fill. It is good for any organization for new people to be involved and provide some fresh ideas. Yes, even lutefisk tastes bad if cooked too long or gets cold sitting on the serving plate. Many political candidates this fall kept preaching about change; so that also applies to your woodcarvers club. Take it from me; the campaign costs for becoming part of your RWC woodcarver's board and club officers' positions are extremely low! Please consider taking part in some way, either by becoming a board member, club officer, putting on a club program or finding a program, helping at the carving show, etc. to make it a better organization for all of us.

If you know anyone that might have an interest in woodcarving, be sure to invite them to one of our upcoming meetings. Community education carving classes will be held this winter, so I encourage you to enroll or invite new people to take a carving class.

I look forward to seeing you at the December meeting with the great potluck once again. Be sure to bring a wood or carving related item for the gift exchange and spouses are encouraged to attend.
Wayne Hendrickson, President
  • Do you have library books/magazines checked out? Bring them in and exchange for some new ones! We have a great library!
  • Bring your Show-and-Tell treasures for all of us to admire!

Show and Tell contributors:

September:
  • Nick Poleschuk - 3 small leaves, for necklaces
  • Dave Ridge - Green puzzle box (need to move 5 pieces to get it open)
  • Louise Forbes - Acanthus spoon
  • John Ahmann -2 bottle stopper men, cardinal ornament, cowboy
  • Kyle Poss - Relief-carved flower, heart spoon, ball in box, dog, snowman, balls and chain
  • Gary Berg - Bark houses with tree
  • Tom Pike - Acanthus shelf
  • Steve Murray - Mermaid relief carving
  • Karen Reilly - Name tags
  • Trent Busch - Power sharpening tool
  • Mike Snyder - Candles
  • Chris Christianson - Acanthus sign, guitar stand
  • Larry Paget - Alaskan bear
October:
  • Don Buske - 2 Airplane ornaments, boot, goose ornament, boot relief
  • John Rink - 2 Bark houses
  • Wayne - 4 Men going to the coffee shop; Ornaments - outhouse, church, sled, Cola truck, bear, barn
  • Gary Berg - 2 Walking sticks - aspen, dragons (the guys troubles); one broom spirit
  • Laverne Schettl - Bear sleeping (Waldorf project), bird
  • Frieda Carter - 2 Angels
  • Janet Denn - "Reserved" sign for church
  • Louise Forbes - Leaf bowl
  • Dwayne Schacht - 4 Scroll-sawn 3-D ornaments
  • Mike Snyder - Pumpkins (will be talking about pumpkins in January)
  • Chris Christianson - 2 angel ornaments; chip-carved box
November:
  • Randy Kinnick - Oak Box
  • Laurie Reed - 4 Wood burned ornaments - 2 Mickeys, Eyore, mini relief-carved cookie press from Germany
  • Janet Denn - 5 Wood burned ornaments with manger scene
  • Ione Chase - Carve wooden piece with loose ball (sold at a craft show for $5, bought it back at garage sale for $0.25)
  • Lou Vangalis - 2 Cardinals
  • Nate Sikkink - Eagle head with talons base
  • Karen Reilly - Relief Carved and woodburned raccoon
  • John Gordon - Black-footed ferret letter opener
  • Dennis Vang - Gnome - flat plane carving, Lady - flat plane carving
  • Ferris Chladek - Walnuts with nativity scene and horse, Uncle Tom - Skeleton on a chair (he will be playing cards)

Festival of Trees Ornament Carvers:
  • Wayne Hendrickson - Bear, Sled, Church, Outhouse, Barn, Cola Truck
  • Dennis Tooley - Santa w/ tree, 2 Santa heads, boot w/ bear,
  • Chris Christianson - Angels
  • Karen Reilly - Bear, 2 mittens, guitar
  • Mary DeVinny - 5 Scandinavian horses
  • Ione Chase - Elf in stocking, 2 birdhouses, duck, cardinal
  • Millard Vitse - 5 Fan birds, Santa, snowflake, joy
  • Ken Brown - 2 Trout, 2 hearts, candy cane
  • John Gordon - Eagle, chickadee, Santa hanging, Santa sitting
  • Dwayne Schacht - 4 - 3D scroll-sawn ornaments - horse, moose, wolf, duck
  • Don Buske - 2 Airplanes
  • Laverne Schettl - Goose, finch, lollypop, angel
  • Ellie Lamb - Woody Woodpecker, Rudolph, Yogi
  • Trent Busch - Chickadee, 2 finches (sorry if I got these wrong)
  • Frieda Carter - 2 Angels
  • Randy Kinnick - 2 acorns, 2 toboggans
  • Frank Folkert - 7 scroll-sawn Ornaments - Peace, 3D duck, feathery ornament, cross, angel, "Jesus is the Reason for the Season"
  • Marilyn Kastler - 2 Eskimos
  • Lou Vangalis - 5 crosses, hummingbird, 10 feathers, dog, bird
  • Ron Bymers - Cross, star, Santa w/stocking
  • Cheryl Jones - Acorn, angel
  • Nancy Borson - Bell
  • Bev Stupca - Bear in boot, angel snowman
  • Larry Padgett - Airplane
  • Janet Denn - Ribbon candy
  • Bob Nowicki - 3 Barefoot Santas
  • Gary Kolb - Clown, girl
  • Mike Paulios - Snowman
  • Gary Berg - 3 Snowmen
  • Steve Murray - 4 Stars, present w/ puppy
  • Bill Kitley - Cardinal
  • Robert Ricks - Isaiah 11:1

Phil Maass, a long time member of our club before they moved away, died this fall. For about the past 3 months he had suffered with a brain tumor. He and his wife Lois moved to Prescott Arizona 8 to 10 years ago. Phil was well known by many of our members. Lois's address is:
Lois Maass
1455 Eagle Crest Drive
Prescott, AZ 86301

Next Meeting will be January 20 - Mechanical Wood Puzzles - Mike Snyder.