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Editor’s Note
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Letters to the Editor
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Reader Gallery
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Tips and Techniques
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News and Notes
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Bookshelf
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Calendar of Events
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Coming Features
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Ad Directory
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Woodchips
DEPTS.
PATTERNS
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Jolly Old Soul
By
Dwayne Gosnell
Reimagine the classic Santa carving
with this whimsical caricature elf
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Pear-Shaped Santa
By
Roger Beane
Turned blank allows you to carve
without worrying about symmetry
and proportions
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Peppermint-Stick St. Nick
By
Dave Francis
Bold hues and a sky-high hat make
this Santa stand out in a crowd
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Carve & Burn Bird
Ornaments
By
Michele Parsons
Add life to a tree or window with
these bright avian adornments
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Nostalgic Snowman Ornaments
By
Jill Motovidlak
Use a simple faux finish to give these
characters an old-timey look
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Chip-Carved Coasters
By
Jan Jenson
Dress up functional discs with a
geometric old-world design
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Frolicsome Fawn
By
Desiree Hajny
Bambi’s got nothing on this
playful prince of the forest
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PROJECTS
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Curly-Haired Kris Kringle
By
Mark Akers
Santa’s got a brand new perm!
Refine your texturing skills with
this unique ornament
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Dancing Santa
By
Wayne Shinlever
After Christmas, he gets
his groove back!
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Circle of Love Nativity
By
Chuck MacKnee
Stylized scene evokes the emotion
that bonds the Holy Family together
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Fisherman Ornament
By
Bob Kozakiewicz
Charming design will have all
your loved ones clamoring for
their very own “grumpy” sailor
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Ball-in-Cage Snowman
By
Pete Zanauskas
With a glowing pipe and a
carrot nose, this classic whimsey
has never looked so charming
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Quick and Easy Standing Angel
By
Don Lang
Carve and paint a stylized seraph
with an inspiring story
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Comfort Penguins
By
Tom Mellott
A special ingredient makes
these tuxedoed birds as sleek
as the real thing
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Carving a Rolling Pin Santa
By
Randy George
Use a reciprocating carver to give old
utensils a new face
TECHNIQUES
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Painting Santa Ornaments
By
Carol Leavy
A road map for the color-wary carver
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Get Started Spoon Carving
By
Lora S. Irish
We hand-make our food—why not
our utensils? Use a pro’s tips for success
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Betty Padden’s Carved
Christmas Spectacular
By
Kaylee Schofield
This enchanted village has
so many amazing details,
you’ll forget it’s a tree stand
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Introduction to
Reciprocating Carvers
By
Bob Duncan
Blend an edged-tool texture
with the speed of a power carver
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You Want Santas?
We’ve Got Santas!
If I’ve learned one thing from perusing back issues of this
magazine and speaking with members of the carving
community, it’s this: You love Santa!
So this issue we’re dishing up a sleighful of Kris Kringles
to keep you busy making gifts, decorations, and ornaments
during the months leading up to Christmas. Beginners will enjoy
making Roger Beane’s ingeniously simple
Pear-Shaped Santa
(page
24). Classicists will love Dwayne Gosnell’s
Jolly Old Soul
(page
21), while those looking for something different will appreciate
Dave Francis’s
Peppermint-Stick St. Nick
(page 30). There’s a
Curly-Haired Santa
(page 26), a delicately painted
Santa Ornament
(page 40), heck, even a
Rolling Pin Santa
(page 81).
But above all there’s Wayne Shinlever’s
Dancing Santa
(page
32), shown on our cover cutting a rug after the completion of his
annual labors. We recognized the utterly original, exquisitely carved
work as something special, and have devoted eight pages of detailed
instructions (along with 34 photographs) to help you bring the old boy
to life. It’s something we’re going to be doing more of—focusing in on
select works that merit closer attention, providing richer instruction
for a more pleasurable and rewarding carving experience.
Elsewhere in the issue are ornaments in abundance and other
memorable pieces, notably Peter Zanauskas’s delightful
Ball-in-Cage
Snowman
(page 60) and Chuck MacKnee’s striking
Circle of
Love Nativity
(page 45). And by all means make sure you take our
photographic tour of
Betty Padden’s Carved Christmas Spectacular
(page 48), an entire elfin village doing double duty as a tree stand.
If you weren’t in the holiday spirit before you picked up this issue,
I guarantee you will be by the time you put it down!
Cheers,
John Atwood
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'Round and 'Round the Cribbage Board
Marty Leenhouts’ article in Issue
82, “Cribbage Board Rosette
Carving,” was well-presented,
but the design calls for three
tracks of 60 holes each.
Since you need a score
of 121 to win the game,
this design won’t work
unless you include
the fourth track.
This allows each of
the two players to
peg around twice
to reach 120 plus
one and win. I look
forward to seeing
new issues!
Jim Stary
San Diego, Calif.
Editor’s Response: Thanks
for your letter, Jim. The
board in Issue 82 is actually
designed for three
players, each of whom
can go twice around
their own track. We
apologize for any confusion
the main photo (which showed
only two sets of pegs) may have
caused. Happy gaming!
We’d love to hear from you! Send your
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Year
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Angels
A few years back I gave a little girl a carved angel for
her Christmas tree. When I saw her after Christmas,
she said that the angel had gone—that her parents
had taken down the tree and put the ornaments away.
Within three days, I had solved the problem. Now, I
make my angels in two different ways to accommodate
people who want to keep them up all year: I carve
some in the round, so they will stand alone without a
base, and some flat, with detachable bases. Now, my
little friend has a guardian angel to keep in her room
after the tree goes away in January.
Charles “Mulie” Sheets
Dayton, Ohio
letters
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Angel ornaments with pedestals don’t
get packed away after the holidays.
Waste Not, Want Not
Inspired by what other carvers have done
with scraps of basswood, I’ve been saving
nearly every little piece. After cutting the
blank and carving the Valentine couple
(“Holding Tightly” by Russell Scott,
Woodcarving Illustrated
Spring 2018,
Issue 82), I discovered that one of the
scraps from the cutout formed a blank for
a little guy with a potbelly. I carved a hat,
and then some arms and legs, saving the
face for last. At that point my wife said, “It
looks like a frog.”
Hey, why not?
I thought.
Thus was born my “Frogman,” who has
invited some chuckles. I’m looking more
closely at my other scraps now.
Thomas L. Jones
Pickford, Mich.
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FOX HUNT
Jerald Chatfield of Tecumseh, Mich., and Scott Ford
of Leadville, Colo., are the winners drawn from the
correct entries received for
WCI
Fall 2018 (Issue
84). The fox was hiding in Step 10 in the Fall Scene
article on page 62.
Find the fox in this issue, and contact us with the
page number and location. Two readers randomly
selected from all correct replies will receive a $25 Fox
Chapel Publishing gift certificate. Entries must be
received by December 10, 2018, to be eligible.
NOTE:
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Woodcarving Illustrated
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Pa. 17520, or enter online under the contests link at
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Owls Don’t Always Hatch From Eggs
It seems like my projects are getting smaller—I just had to carve the
little owl from Steven Kulp’s “A Family of Owls” article (Issue #84).
Instead of a turned egg, I rounded a 1 ¾
" by 2" (4.4cm by 5.1cm) block
to look like an egg. I painted the owls with acrylics and used yellow
and blue googly eyes instead of woodburning them on. I plan to
embed pencil sharpeners in the bottoms. What a fun little project.
Tom Ellis
Spokane, Wash.
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Tiffany Puza,
South Berwick, Maine
“I named this 8" by 11" (20.3cm by
27.9cm) piece
Elevation and Relief,
which
references the changes on a topographical
map,” Tiffany said. “There is a heaviness and
weightlessness to this wood burning—
a blend between mountains and water,
caught above and beneath.” Tiffany recently
resigned from her job to launch a small art
and design business, which partners with
non-profits to increase global harmony.
Find Tiffany at findandseekdesign.com.
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Dave Keele,
Ozarks, Mo.
Dave, who calls himself the Rose Carver, will be
the first to tell you that transforming wood into
flowers is harder than it looks. “On each rose,
I have to carve end grain to form the petals. I
use a knife to do this...it really tests your ability
to put a sharp edge on your tools!” he said. Find
more of Dave’s work at shellknobwoodcarvers.
weebly.com.
Andrei Gotia,
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Andrei has been chip carving for seven years. This
design, he said, was inspired by “a cross from a prayer
book, which I adapted, giving it a circular center and
a frame.” At the suggestion of his instructor, Wayne
Barton, he added the botanical motif, “which matches
the cross very well, representing it as the Tree of Life.” He
carved this 10" by 10" (25.4cm by 25.4cm) ornamental
piece out of basswood.
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Gordon Pembridge,
Auckland, New Zealand
A Kenyan by birth, Gordon moved to New Zealand to study
art; each home played a part in informing his love for natural
history and design. “The elephants in Tsavo, Kenya, take on
the red color of the mud they use to cover themselves,” said
Gordon, now an associate member of the Society of Animal
Artists. He turned and carved this 5¾
" by 6¾
" (14.5cm by
17cm) bowl from macrocarpa (Monterey cypress). Find more
of Gordon’s work at gordonpembridge.com.
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Oleksandr Yankovyi,
Ternopil, Ukraine
Four years ago, 29-year-old Oleksandr
carved a decorative mask and hasn’t put
the chisel down since. “In my time carving,
I have accumulated around 50 chisels,
and am sure that number will grow in the
future!” he said. He made this 12" (30.5cm)-
high Viking figurine out of basswood.
Find more of Oleksandr’s work on Etsy at
WoodCarvedSculptures.
Bill Hamilton,
Pickering, Ontario
Bill began as a designer of
traditional furniture, “and
then, 40 years ago, I saw a
night school class in carving
and was hooked,” he said. “I