February 2010 Newsletter
Next Meeting: Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 7PM
Volume 19 Issue 1
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Do you ever get that queasy feeling back in your throat once a year
when the term “friendship cane blocks” is used at the banquet meeting?
It gets worse when several blocks are shoved into your hands and you
stare at them thinking “Now what!”. If you do, you are not alone. Each
and every year it happens to me.
I envy people that take and carve 4 faces on the block in about 20
minutes and then chip carve all the untouched surfaces. I like to carve
but normally I carve narrower sized pieces of wood. I also have a real
good idea what I plan to carve before I cut the wood. I always seem to
draw a blank on the 2 x 2 x 2 pieces. The blocks tend to sit around until
the week before I have to turn them in and I frantically hack away until
something emerges. Once in a while I can almost determine what it is
supposed to be! My biggest problem is that the carvings have to retain
the hole in the middle so it will actually function as a cane. That rules out
cutting them into 4 weirdly shaped 1 x 1 x 2 sizes that I might actually
carve.
For the past several months I have been carving little gnomes out of the
aforementioned 1 x 1 x 2 pieces of wood and I have gotten pretty quick at
making the little guys come to life. For the cane block carving I decided
to up scale my gnome and make him a bit bigger. So I asked for and
received a 2 x 2 x 3 piece of wood. I carved him out on a Tuesday night
and now I have a gnome created from my block to hand in. It is a nice
feeling to have one of my blocks done a couple of months before the
show. I have one more block to carve and I will be thinking of what to do
with it.
So I suggest that you start carving your cane blocks soon so you aren't
pressured at the last minute.
I know that I will probably wait to paint them a day or two before I am
supposed to hand them in. But painting is a whole different story!
Darrell
********************************
!!! GREAT NEWS !!!
Word was just received from the Sheboygan Senior Center that effective
March 4, 2010 the center will be open EVERY Thursday night for wood
carving. It will be open to all carvers any age from 6PM-9PM at a cost of
$1.00 per night. Now that we got the go-ahead it is hoped that more
members will participate and make this as popular as the Plymouth site
on Tuesday nights.
********************************
MEETING MINUTES
Kettle Karver Meeting Minutes for
January 6, 2010
This was our Banquet meeting at Klemme’s Wagon Wheel in Howards
Grove.
Treasurer’s Report was given by LuAnn Schils and approved.
The Treasurer’s audit for the year 2009 was conducted by Don Lorier
and Phil Schils. Once again Harvey Wendorf was thanked for a job well
done as our past treasurer and reported a “great audit”.
Saturday Carve – The Saturday after our monthly meeting is the day our
club carve is held jointly with our “youth carve”. The cost is $1.00 each
time. The group meets at the Plymouth High School Wood Shop Room
C111. If you currently don’t have a project you are working on there will
be available from one of our members a small easy project to work on.
Note: Pam Moir has set up a display of carved projects at Riverview
Middle School in Plymouth to try to find young people interested in
woodcarving. Any interested students are instructed to sign up through
Plymouth Community Education. The next gathering will be the Saturday
after our club meeting. Hopefully, new students will arrive to learn to
carve. We invite Kettle Karvers to help them out and get them started on
Sat. Feb. 6.
Artistry in Wood Show – April 24th. Neil Lorenz is the show chairman.
The show information has been submitted to carving
publications/magazines. We will need demonstration volunteers. Also,
does anyone have any ideas on how to celebrate the fact that this is our
20th year for the show?
Don handed out cane blocks at the banquet and some have already
been carved. Any ideas on themes? Someone suggested an all Santa
cane. Another suggestion was an all Gnome cane. Blocks will be
available at the Feb. meeting. Please help out by carving a block for the
fundraising friendship canes. Blocks must be done by the April 7th
meeting.
Sy Regan suggested an “Iron Man” type category for the show
competition. There would be 5 categories per carver. There was some
interest in this and we can discuss it at our next meeting.
Harvey suggested his son be a demonstrator for the show: ‘Rose Engine
(?) which is fancy detailing on carvings. We can get further details from
Harvey at the Feb. meeting.
Burning a Bat – Thanks to Phil Schils for helping out a man who wanted
something woodburned on his son’s baseball bat. Phil contacted the man
and helped out with this special request.
Darrell knows of someone who needs a small bird carved. If anyone can
help out contact Darrell.
Door prizes were handed out and the meeting concluded.
See you at the next meeting : Plymouth High School Cafeteria, Wed. Feb.
3. 7:00pm
Respectfully submitted,
Pam Moir, Secretary
Just a note: Please check with Lou Anne to make sure you are up to date
on your membership dues.
**********
Carving Opportunities
Every Tuesday from 6-9 PM at Plymouth High School, room C111.
Anyone is welcome. Bring your own project. The fee is only $10.00 per
person every 10 weeks.
The Sheboygan Senior Center on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays from 6-
9PM. ($1 fee) and the 1st and 3rd Monday mornings from 9-12noon. Call
Mary Nowacki (458-5841)for more details.
NOTE: Effective March 4th there will be carving every Thursday
night. Attendance has been pretty slim at the Center. Sure would be
nice to have more members come to share their talents and conversation.
**************
You may remember Mary Ann Waldbauer asking the club if we were
interested in donating a group item or individual item for raffle at the
Cancer Care Fund Raiser. In the past Phil Schils donated a walking stick
that went for $1000. She is once again requesting help from us to help
make this event a success. If you have any suggestions please mention
them at the meeting Feb 3rd.
Upcoming Events:
Manitowooc County Community Day, March 13, 2010 – Looking for
people to demo or show their carvings. Contact Wendy Lutzke at
wlutzke@wisconsinmaritime.org
Wisconsin River Woodcarvers,Inc.
10th annual woodcarving show, competition and sale. March 20-21,
2010 9AM-4PM – Plover, Wi
Contact : Greg @715-423-0471
Information was received regarding this show and will be available at the
February meeting if you are interested in participating or attending.
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April 24, 2010: Kettle Karvers Klub
Artistry in Wood Show
Sheboygan Falls Municipal Bldg
Check us out on the web at www.kettlekarver.org
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Mid Wisconsin Chippers Show
Appleton, Wi April 25, 2010
Rick Jensen Bark Carving in the round June 13-18, 2010. Evart,MI
Contact: Floyd Rhadigan
(734) 649-3259
rhads134@comcast.net
Wisconsin Gourd Society Classes:
Coiling, carving & wood burning. Visit website for class descriptions,
dates and enrollment information: http://wisconsingourds.
com/Wisconsin_Gourds/Events_and_Classes.html
*********************
The following article was taken from Woodcraft Magazine, page 13,
vol5/no.27,Feb/Mar (09)
Homemade Bandsaw Blocks
The metal guideblocks that come standard with most bandsaws can
create blade damage, heat and friction, or can damage the teeth.
Aftermarket graphite and ceramic guide blocks work well, but before you
buy, consider making your own blocks from any dense hardwood, such
as maple. Like the blade-friendly graphite, hardwood guides can be set
against the blade without risk of damaging teeth or tooth set. When worn,
hardwood blocks can be sanded or trimmed true.
After cutting the blocks to fit, I stand them in a small container with some
WD-40 to allow the end grain to absorb extra lubricant.
-Tim Feier, Fairfield, Connecticut
“ HELP WANTED”
In order for YOUR newsletter to remain informative, educational,
interesting, funny and/or serious it is imperative that you share any of
this kind of news with the editor so she can get it printed for all the
membership to see. Many ideas make easier work of putting the
newsletter together as well as hearing and reading the various tidbits
from each other.
So please don't be shy and give Mary a call with some news we can print.
458-5841. Thanks.
Mary – editor
Check us out on the web at www.kettlekarver.org
Volume 19 Issue 1
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Do you ever get that queasy feeling back in your throat once a year
when the term “friendship cane blocks” is used at the banquet meeting?
It gets worse when several blocks are shoved into your hands and you
stare at them thinking “Now what!”. If you do, you are not alone. Each
and every year it happens to me.
I envy people that take and carve 4 faces on the block in about 20
minutes and then chip carve all the untouched surfaces. I like to carve
but normally I carve narrower sized pieces of wood. I also have a real
good idea what I plan to carve before I cut the wood. I always seem to
draw a blank on the 2 x 2 x 2 pieces. The blocks tend to sit around until
the week before I have to turn them in and I frantically hack away until
something emerges. Once in a while I can almost determine what it is
supposed to be! My biggest problem is that the carvings have to retain
the hole in the middle so it will actually function as a cane. That rules out
cutting them into 4 weirdly shaped 1 x 1 x 2 sizes that I might actually
carve.
For the past several months I have been carving little gnomes out of the
aforementioned 1 x 1 x 2 pieces of wood and I have gotten pretty quick at
making the little guys come to life. For the cane block carving I decided
to up scale my gnome and make him a bit bigger. So I asked for and
received a 2 x 2 x 3 piece of wood. I carved him out on a Tuesday night
and now I have a gnome created from my block to hand in. It is a nice
feeling to have one of my blocks done a couple of months before the
show. I have one more block to carve and I will be thinking of what to do
with it.
So I suggest that you start carving your cane blocks soon so you aren't
pressured at the last minute.
I know that I will probably wait to paint them a day or two before I am
supposed to hand them in. But painting is a whole different story!
Darrell
********************************
!!! GREAT NEWS !!!
Word was just received from the Sheboygan Senior Center that effective
March 4, 2010 the center will be open EVERY Thursday night for wood
carving. It will be open to all carvers any age from 6PM-9PM at a cost of
$1.00 per night. Now that we got the go-ahead it is hoped that more
members will participate and make this as popular as the Plymouth site
on Tuesday nights.
********************************
MEETING MINUTES
Kettle Karver Meeting Minutes for
January 6, 2010
This was our Banquet meeting at Klemme’s Wagon Wheel in Howards
Grove.
Treasurer’s Report was given by LuAnn Schils and approved.
The Treasurer’s audit for the year 2009 was conducted by Don Lorier
and Phil Schils. Once again Harvey Wendorf was thanked for a job well
done as our past treasurer and reported a “great audit”.
Saturday Carve – The Saturday after our monthly meeting is the day our
club carve is held jointly with our “youth carve”. The cost is $1.00 each
time. The group meets at the Plymouth High School Wood Shop Room
C111. If you currently don’t have a project you are working on there will
be available from one of our members a small easy project to work on.
Note: Pam Moir has set up a display of carved projects at Riverview
Middle School in Plymouth to try to find young people interested in
woodcarving. Any interested students are instructed to sign up through
Plymouth Community Education. The next gathering will be the Saturday
after our club meeting. Hopefully, new students will arrive to learn to
carve. We invite Kettle Karvers to help them out and get them started on
Sat. Feb. 6.
Artistry in Wood Show – April 24th. Neil Lorenz is the show chairman.
The show information has been submitted to carving
publications/magazines. We will need demonstration volunteers. Also,
does anyone have any ideas on how to celebrate the fact that this is our
20th year for the show?
Don handed out cane blocks at the banquet and some have already
been carved. Any ideas on themes? Someone suggested an all Santa
cane. Another suggestion was an all Gnome cane. Blocks will be
available at the Feb. meeting. Please help out by carving a block for the
fundraising friendship canes. Blocks must be done by the April 7th
meeting.
Sy Regan suggested an “Iron Man” type category for the show
competition. There would be 5 categories per carver. There was some
interest in this and we can discuss it at our next meeting.
Harvey suggested his son be a demonstrator for the show: ‘Rose Engine
(?) which is fancy detailing on carvings. We can get further details from
Harvey at the Feb. meeting.
Burning a Bat – Thanks to Phil Schils for helping out a man who wanted
something woodburned on his son’s baseball bat. Phil contacted the man
and helped out with this special request.
Darrell knows of someone who needs a small bird carved. If anyone can
help out contact Darrell.
Door prizes were handed out and the meeting concluded.
See you at the next meeting : Plymouth High School Cafeteria, Wed. Feb.
3. 7:00pm
Respectfully submitted,
Pam Moir, Secretary
Just a note: Please check with Lou Anne to make sure you are up to date
on your membership dues.
**********
Carving Opportunities
Every Tuesday from 6-9 PM at Plymouth High School, room C111.
Anyone is welcome. Bring your own project. The fee is only $10.00 per
person every 10 weeks.
The Sheboygan Senior Center on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays from 6-
9PM. ($1 fee) and the 1st and 3rd Monday mornings from 9-12noon. Call
Mary Nowacki (458-5841)for more details.
NOTE: Effective March 4th there will be carving every Thursday
night. Attendance has been pretty slim at the Center. Sure would be
nice to have more members come to share their talents and conversation.
**************
You may remember Mary Ann Waldbauer asking the club if we were
interested in donating a group item or individual item for raffle at the
Cancer Care Fund Raiser. In the past Phil Schils donated a walking stick
that went for $1000. She is once again requesting help from us to help
make this event a success. If you have any suggestions please mention
them at the meeting Feb 3rd.
Upcoming Events:
Manitowooc County Community Day, March 13, 2010 – Looking for
people to demo or show their carvings. Contact Wendy Lutzke at
wlutzke@wisconsinmaritime.org
Wisconsin River Woodcarvers,Inc.
10th annual woodcarving show, competition and sale. March 20-21,
2010 9AM-4PM – Plover, Wi
Contact : Greg @715-423-0471
Information was received regarding this show and will be available at the
February meeting if you are interested in participating or attending.
@@@@@@@@@
April 24, 2010: Kettle Karvers Klub
Artistry in Wood Show
Sheboygan Falls Municipal Bldg
Check us out on the web at www.kettlekarver.org
@@@@@@@@
Mid Wisconsin Chippers Show
Appleton, Wi April 25, 2010
Rick Jensen Bark Carving in the round June 13-18, 2010. Evart,MI
Contact: Floyd Rhadigan
(734) 649-3259
rhads134@comcast.net
Wisconsin Gourd Society Classes:
Coiling, carving & wood burning. Visit website for class descriptions,
dates and enrollment information: http://wisconsingourds.
com/Wisconsin_Gourds/Events_and_Classes.html
*********************
The following article was taken from Woodcraft Magazine, page 13,
vol5/no.27,Feb/Mar (09)
Homemade Bandsaw Blocks
The metal guideblocks that come standard with most bandsaws can
create blade damage, heat and friction, or can damage the teeth.
Aftermarket graphite and ceramic guide blocks work well, but before you
buy, consider making your own blocks from any dense hardwood, such
as maple. Like the blade-friendly graphite, hardwood guides can be set
against the blade without risk of damaging teeth or tooth set. When worn,
hardwood blocks can be sanded or trimmed true.
After cutting the blocks to fit, I stand them in a small container with some
WD-40 to allow the end grain to absorb extra lubricant.
-Tim Feier, Fairfield, Connecticut
“ HELP WANTED”
In order for YOUR newsletter to remain informative, educational,
interesting, funny and/or serious it is imperative that you share any of
this kind of news with the editor so she can get it printed for all the
membership to see. Many ideas make easier work of putting the
newsletter together as well as hearing and reading the various tidbits
from each other.
So please don't be shy and give Mary a call with some news we can print.
458-5841. Thanks.
Mary – editor
Check us out on the web at www.kettlekarver.org
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