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Volume XVII , Issue I
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Inside this issue:
Letter from the Editor
by Amy McEntire
Message from the President
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by Jack McEntire
White Pass Winter Carnival
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by Amber McEntire
Ridgway Rendezvous by Jack McEntire
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Contemporary American Art Part 3
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by Fabian Bruske
One Wolf by Steve Backus
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Black Bear Blues by Thor
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Go to College by Steve Backus
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A Blast From the Past
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Upcoming Events
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Carving Tips
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Carving by Ken Tynan. Picture taken by Cima Bue
The Cutting Edge
Letter from the Editor
Message from the President
by Amy McEntire
by Jack McEntire
We are trying to keep the newsletter up to the high
standards that you have come to expect. We need
more carver support in the form of submissions. The
more carvers submit their stories, pictures, ideas, tips,
poems the better the carvers newsletter will be.
The CCSG is holding its
annual elections during the
Sequim WA show May 7th. If
you have any nominations for
positions on the board you wish
to make please send them in.
Democracy works best when
there is plenty of participation.
I’ve had several people contact me saying they haven’t
received a newsletter this past
year and were quite upset. It
seems many are unaware that
there is more than one guild.
The United Chainsaw Sculptors
Guild was started in 2002 but
Also, if you have something to sell that pertains to
since 2009 the UCSG has dischainsaw carving placing an ad in the newsletter is a
continued producing a newsgreat way to get your product in the hands of carvers.
letter. The CCSG plans to conAnother way to help out is to pay/renew your membertinue providing this service, as it
ship of $20 which will entitle you to a printed copy of
has since 1993.
the color newsletter and a ‘Carve or Starve’ bumper
In January the CCSG board
sticker. In addition to paying/renewing your membervoted in favor of working toward
ship dues the guild has many items in its online store
joining the two guilds back into
at: www.theccsg.com/Store.htm Items include:
1 group, with the 2 boards joinguild t-shirts, carve or starve license plate holders and
ing into 1 board. Virtually all the
bumper stickers, and we also have several books from
carvers seem to favor this posiour Amazon Associates Store where a portion of each
tion and we shall continue to
sale goes to benefit the guild.
work toward this goal.
Thirdly, you can help out by helping with some of the
The CCSG is celebrating 25
guild business. An area in which help is most needed
years
since its inception: In
is in gathering the information necessary for the upOne of Jacks latest carvings.
September 1986 a group of
Picture by Amy McEntire
coming events calendar. In the past, Jim Madsen did
chainsaw sculptors gathered
this job very well and they are pretty big shoes to fill,
around
a
pickup
truck
hood.
Several regional venues
but if you have a little extra free time and want to help make
had
increasingly
cut
back
on
what they were offering to
sure the list is current and accurate drop me a line and I’ll help
the
carvers.
In
order
to
counter
act this trend they
get you started! Another area where help is needed is in fundraising in general and finding a grant writer would be extremely started the formation of the CCSG. We’re looking for
ideas on ways to celebrate this anniversary. Got any
helpful. There has been some mention about setting up a
group health care system for carvers through the guild. If any- ideas?
one has any experience with how to setup something like
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White Pass Winter Carnival
by Amber McEntire
As the bright white snowflakes hit
your face and your hands are as cold
as freezing ice cubes you know you
have reached success. You have
made a magnificent piece of artwork
out of snow.
This year’s winter carnival at White Amber McEntire enjoying the
winter fun.
Pass was great! It was the 25th anniPicture by Jack McEntire
versary of the opening of the winter
carnival. They had a gorgeous fireworks show. They treated
the carvers well, like every year. We got free passes for
rentals and lessons, we got a pass for the rest of the season,
and we also got $110 in food for each carver, a travel stipend and a t-shirt .
There were several pieces of artwork created. There was
a mountainous ogre holding a club coming out of a cave with
trees surrounding him. Next was a monstrous dragon coming out of the ground eating one of the snow shoveling helpers. After that was a bear coming up looking for fish. And as
always a gigantic castle which had a bridge with Shrek on it.
They carved little kids on sleds on the sides, and multiple
little creatures were carved all around the castle. There were
slides for kids to go
down and entrances underneath it so they could
walk. It was quit magnifi-
Snow Sculpture of lizard sporting his
tongue. Picture by Dennis Dow
Snow Sculpture of person sledding.
Picture by Dennis Dow
Snow Sculpture of dragon
eating a person. Picture
by Jack McEntire
Snow Sculpture of an Ogre & his club. Picture by Dennis Dow
cent how together the
carvers can create this
great art work and build
structures all out of a white
powdery substance known
as snow. I find it quite extraordinary. The days were
sunny. Everyone got along
and it was fun being able
to be part of all the festivities. Hopefully some more
carvers can come next
year to be part of the fun.
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Snow Sculpture of large bear. Picture by Jack McEntire
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Ridgway Rendezvous 2011
Like always I go into Ridgway full of
energy and anticipation and go home
with my energy completely spent. At the
show there is always someone willing to
give you a ride, Uncle Norbie is normally
standing ready and the other carvers are
as sharing as always. This year we decided to rent our own car, it’s always better to have your own. I don’t know how
we ever got by without one. However,
on the drive from the airport, I got some
bad news – my mother had just passed
away. I swore everyone in the car to
secrecy. I didn’t want to have every
greeting to have a shadow of sorrow
brought to it. I told you all that there was
a reason my heart was tender and I felt
drawn to act on problems. Our shared
mortality is incentive to strive for serious
solutions.
In addition to Musical Bears and What I
Saw, the Wolf Pack also brought our
cage matches to Ridgway. In this event
2 carvers are put in an enclosure, given
5-10 minutes to carve what they want
and the crowd decides who they think
by Jack McEntire
Above is Tommy Craggs and his sculpture and below
to the left is Scott Dow working on his Natures Arch.
Pictures by Cima Bue
won. I always say “two men/
women enter one leaves.” It’s
amazing what you can do so
quickly and we got some to give it
a go that surprised themselves.
We also brought a Public Address system to the show. That
Mackie really has some power.
We used it to play music, and
make announcements to the
crowd. A P.A. surely adds some
energy to a show.
As usual, the Seminars were
wide ranging and informative, everything from Yoga to help your
body/spirit, to Joinery on a massive
scale. There were presentations
on sharpening your chain, setting
up a wood mill, handy equipment
and its maintenance, basic approaches to carving, and photography.
There was also an open United
Chainsaw Sculptors Guild meeting
and election held at the Vous.
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According to the UCCG bylaws a meeting/election
like this is required every year at Ridgway. As the
only board member or officer present, Jerry
Heneger called the meeting and two proposals
were voted on. The first called for the two guilds
to be joined into one. The results were 23 votes in
favor and none against joining forces. The second
proposal was the removal of Jerry Schieffer as
board member of the UCSG. The results were 11
votes in favor and 1 opposed.
A moment that really stands out in my mind was
one night late at the carving site when Cima broke
out some floating Chinese lanterns. The sight of
them floating up in the sky, music playing, surrounded by friends was a great way for me to say
goodbye to mom.
As you can see from the photos, the carvings
produced were as spectacular as always. It
seems that the future of carvings using joinery is
bright.
The moment were I almost broke into tears was
at the award ceremony when we gave Christine
Petrillo the Big Heart award over $3,200 and some
25 carvings to take to her shop. Fellow carvers
had contributed to help her out after Jim’s passing
4 months earlier. You guys/gals make me proud
to be a chainsaw sculptor.
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Picture by Cima Bue
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Carving done by Ragna Reusch-Klinkenberg of Ahausen, Germany
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Contemporary American Art Part 3
by Fabian Bruske
By the end of the 50’s the Abstract Expressionist movement
had run out of energy. This was
mostly because of the death of
Jackson Pollock and the loss of
faith in the ideals of American
society resulting from the development of atomic warfare and
the growth of the military during
the Cold War.
In this state of uncertainty during 1950s America there existed
two different Art streams. Some
were involved in the late Abstract
Expressionism stream and others constituted the Neo-Dada
stream. The name, Neo-Dada,
came from the Avant-garde
movement Dadaism. The only
characteristic they shared was a
trend toward experimentation in
art.
With the revolution in Art
caused by the Avant-gardes and
especially through the work of
Marcel Duchamp what it was
that defined something as a piece
of art started to become unclear.
Ultimately, with Impressionism
art was any artifact of the artist.
The invention of Ready-made
One of Robert Rauschenberg’s “Combines” (both painting and sculpture) . Created in 1959 and titled ‘The
Rauschenberg used a variety of materials including paint, fabric, metal, buttons, nails, cardboard,
erased the old objet d'art mean- Canyon’.
printed paper, photographs, wood, paint tubes, mirror string, pillow & bald eagle to create this piece.
ing because Duchamp proved
that through the simple declaration “This is Art”, guaranteed that whoever says this is an artist, and this statement is recognized by the art institutions, it is art. Every object called “Art” by an artist is a work of art.
Although the Neo-Dada artists were mostly influenced by Duchamp, they also did Ready-mades. In sculpture
they used to make assemblages or put ordinary objects of life into the work of art. The purpose was to elicit a new
kind of existence from the object.
The work of the main artists of the Neo-Dadaism poetry stream: Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg demonstrate their absence of opinion concerning the aspects of real life they represent. It's the same for the whole movement. The reason for this was the loss of faith in the future caused by events like the Korean War, the building of
the Iron Curtain in Europe, and some social troubles inherent in the functioning of a capitalist society. Because of
this malaise they chose to represent only what was connected to the present. They chose to incorporate only what
was happening around them, without judging it, into their art. It was a way to exorcise their own hopes regarding
the future.
Starting in the 20th century, art galleries and museums started to spread in America and Europe, The works of
famous artist were sold for big prices because a lot of shareholders started to invest in Art. The ‘artistic worth’ of a
piece of art became the indicator of its monetary value. Abstract Expressionism very well adapted to this new
market.
In the middle of the 50s, parallel to Neo-Dada, a new kind of Art the “Happening” arose, The man who coined
the term was Allan Kaprow. He dedicated his whole career to this form of art.
The Happening is an action that develops over time and takes place in public or private areas. The artist usually
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has an outline of what they are going to perform at the happening, but improvisation is the pin-point of the Happening, sometimes the public must participate or the artist doesn't act. A Happening or Event is embedded in time: it
starts, evolves and finishes so that every Happening is unique, the only way to preserve an Event and keep it alive
over time is through
photographs or videos.
The main reason
for this kind of art to
be invented was that
you couldn't sell it.
The second reason
was that artists
wanted to open up
art to the public and
make it available to
everybody.
Most of the Happenings had no deeper
meaning, they just
represented what
they were staging,
Allan Kaprow said
that the difference
between a Happening and Theater lies
in the absence of the
transition of emotions.
One of Allan Kaprow ‘Happenings’ where housewives licked jam off of a car in 1964.
One Wolf
by Steve Backus
The gloryhounds were happy sniffing each other’s butts,
mine is best, no mine I say, the last one sucked in his gut
A spotlight over there, the gloryhounds are off,
past mutts and mongrels at whom they often scoff
The old wolf’s not dead, still got a little fight,
the gloryhounds are sniffing, sensing faded might
The glory hounds see only the shining now,
old wolves and pups receive their haughty growls
Gloryhounds were mutts, until they made a kill,
think they did it by themselves, help from others nil
But gloryhounds will always be with us,
some will be humble or smug or vicious
Gloryhounds forget they travel in a pack,
each fresh kill shows, if in character they lack
Gloryhounds are pretty, but remember when they were
pups, the pack fed and guided them tending half filled
cups
Forget as pups, how the pack would feed and nurture,
till they spot the old lone wolf, not seeing their own future
So when you see an old wolf on a steady summer day,
remember when the gloryhounds were just little pups at
play!!
Let’s steal his kill, no thought to his strength,
they circle and lie down, go to any length
A metaphor, at just a little past 11 o four,
time to shut the door,M
Gloryhounds are nimble, some quiet and aloof,
coupla them got some silver on the roof
And remember carve or starveMMMMM..
There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people. ~R.H. Blyth
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Black Bear Blues
by Thor
No sales anywhere
Unless you carve a bear
It doesn't matter if it's square
It doesn't matter about its hair
As long as it's black it will sell right there
With no jobs to be found
Carvers are sprouting up out of the ground
All carving that bear,
Black and square
Now they are everywhere
And no sales anywhere.
What’s a carver to do?
When no one wants something new
Should I get a real job and cut my hair?
But there’s none out there
Unless you are carving a bear.
To the left Thor and one of his guitar carvings and to the right black bears carved by
Mike Page. Pictures taken at Ridgway Rendezvous 2011 Pictures by Cima Bue
Go to College
by Steve Backus
Hello all you carving comrades, how's it going in your sculpture world? This chainsaw carving life has been a fun,
wonderful, lifelong experiment for me personally. It sure as hell has not been without grand moments of dread and
fear of failure! They can last as long as twenty minutes or so before the realization that I can’t go backwards kicks in
and solutions begin forming. Many solutions born of panic or desperation have no chance of working, at least without
screwing someone over, and learning how to discern the useless, from the “might just work” is an ongoing education.
As I write this bit of accumulated wisdom I have been chainsaw carving for money since I was sixteen years old,
which was way back in 1976. I hail from a chainsaw carving family that, it would be fair to say, has had no small impact on this chainsaw carving world. If I don’t say so myself. Along the way I have been curious and a seeker of
knowledge but a formal education seemed elusive. Dropping out of high school probably wasn’t a good first move for
one, but I love to read and most of the knowledge out there apparently is in books as it turns out!
And then of course, there is the life knowledge that can be beat into you over and over, like a mugging in a dark alley
by a gang of thugs. These lessons are usually repeated until learned, if ever in some cases.
When I was about twenty two years old, and was having a great time doing the whoopdeedoo, enjoying freedom,
pick-up trucks, chainsaws and beer, life was good and formal schooling was drifting away like an empty boat with an
outgoing tide and a slight breeze. It was also circa 1981 when the first carving contests were beginning, at least in the
Pacific Northwest, and me and my fellow fun loving friend and Uncle Pat, Pat McVay to you fng;, were always ready to
go to a contest at the drop of a beer can. As we would drive to the events he would regale me with stories of his collage exploits, and boy oh boy did it sound like fun. Uncle Pat went to college on a baseball scholarship so he was
quite the ball player, and he took such interesting college courses like badmiton and geology. So, when we drove say
to Spokane Washington from the Seattle area crossing the state through the waste lands between Ellensburg and
Ritzville, a wasteland to those of us used to lots of trees, I would get all sorts of talk about basalt columns and how
they were formed and the giant flood that washed all the way from present day Montana to form the Columbia River
and carried debris 700 miles out to sea off the present day Washington and Oregon coast.
At the time, I started coming to the realization that a formal education was more than likely not going to happen.
Even though we had friends and acquaintances who were about as sharp as an elbow that had folks with bucks, and
could go to school, (it seemed like forever in some cases), but whining and sniveling did not work so well and nobody
cared.
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I was at an age of life decisions and I had just left a high paying union job in Alaska to go to the Puyallup fair and carve
in the first chainsaw carving contest. I never went back to that great job in Alaska. As it turns out I would rather sleep in
my truck at a fair ground parking lot than sack out in a two story bunkhouse with a big kitchen full of steaks and grub
where I was getting twenty bucks an hour with plenty of over time! What the hell was wrong with me you say? It turns
out I was learning to follow my heart. I did not want to make money just to have things, and I never seemed to
have money on Monday no matter what I did, so what the hell will I do that’s what I want and make me happy? Always
strive to free your happy. At this time, I made a conscious decision to make this chainsaw carving game my life work,
my career if you will. This is at a time when there were but a handful of chainsaw carvers anywhere and selling your
wares was not always easy. In fact it was hard, and if you wanted a new truck you had to borrow it from your girlfriend.
So, when the Cascade Chainsaw Sculptors Guild was formed, I was in! When any chainsaw carving event was put together I was in! When the times dictated carvers would run their own shows I was in! When the chainsaw carving game
began to form the core of a small industry I was in! This is because the world is run by those that show up!
I always encouraged anyone interested to give it a try, and many did. In those days if a newbie came by some carvers’ shop, Oregon coast and northern California mostly, it could be anywhere from an uncomfortable to a hostile environment. So, getting to know the carving game was a matter of trial and error - then trying to sell your experiments on top of
everything else, whew this self taught stuff was exhausting I tell you. Additionally, not every relative in your life was keen
to see you keep at it, and girlfriends’ parents were never thrilled to learn you were a self employed artist type.
So as it turns out competitions and contests were the best way of learning, networking and meeting what, in many
cases, turned out to be lifelong friends, and a few jerks you just happen to have known a long time. But we all learned
from each other and it radiated outward. Starting from the time you learned something and passed it along and the next
person passed it along until it became common. Can we say bears?! It had to start somewhere. Self education will
always be a part of the art world. Mistakes will strengthen your resolve. Perseverance will be more important than talent, there are lots and lots of broke bitter folks full of talent. Persistence is more important than formal education, and of
course in some cases it’s far better to be lucky than good!
All this talk of formal education reminds me of a chainsaw carving adventure my good friend, Steve Orne, of Maple
Falls Washington, and I went on last January. We were the chainsaw carvers that carved at the “STRANGE BREW
FEST“ in Port Townsend, Washington. It’s a wonderful little brew fest of micro breweries from all over the Puget Sound
area and it is no secret that western Washington is a hotbed of microbreweries. Next to coffee, micro beers are a big beverage consumed
with gusto by all manners of Washington natives, but I digress. At any
rate, Steve and I showed up early and unloaded my pick up. We had a
little time to kill before things started, they did not start till noon. I think
everyone running the show stayed up late the night before making sure
there was plenty of beer and maybe they sampled a little, just a guess.
So, to take advantage of an empty truck and a full service car wash in
town, we dashed up there like a couple big dogs. We got there and I
asked the guy if my truck would fit in their wash barn. He was kinda
snooty and said go get my brother out in the yard, so I did. He was kinda
snooty as well and said to get all the straps and ropes out and take the
back rack off and it would be fine he guessed. So we unloaded the stuff,
and as we got in line and forked over the $15 bucks he kinda loosened
up and looked at my chainsaw carving sign bolted to the side of my truck.
He said he went to the University of Colorado and majored in art, sculpture in particular. He said he had a friend in Colorado that chainsaw
carved, but when I asked his name he couldn’t remember the guys’
name. They must have been very close eh. In our short time to visit with
this highbrowed carwash gentleman we found out that he spent several
years in school, and knew quite a bit about art. As I rolled up my window
and said thanks, I pulled up to the device that drags you through
the carwash and I turned to my buddy, Steve Orne and said, “Here we
are a couple hillbilly high school dropouts with old trucks, who produce
‘reduction three dimension sculptures’ for a full time job, creating art for
hundreds, no dare I say it - thousands of satisfied customers. It makes
me wonder if I shouldn’t have tried harder to get a collage education so I
could get a good job in a carwash!”
We went back to Brew Fest and sold the crap out of beer mugs and
gnomes. Wattya gonna do...........Steve backus ...... Carve or Starve!
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April 28th – May 1st Ferdinand, Indiana
Ferdinand Chainsaw Carving Festival
Sheri Kieffner skieffner@live.com
812-630-4187 www.ferdinandchainsawfest.com
May 4th -7th Thomasville, NC
2nd Annual Chainsaw Sculpting Inv.
Randy Everett 336-996-6393
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May 13 – 14 Sequim WA
Sequim Irrigation Festival & CCSG Meeting
Steve Backus 360-224-2279
stumpcarver@whidbey.com
May 6th – 7th Scandia, PA
Carving at Red Oak Campground
Bob & Sue Rulander 814-757-8507
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June 16th – 18th Addison PA
National Road Chainsaw Carving Festival
www.carvingfest.confluencelions.org
June 24th – 26th Ocean Shores WA
www.oceanshoresat.com/events.html
June 25th – 26th Evansville, WI
Carving on the Commons
Tom Weis 262-389-9299
sawyerstump@gmail.com
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June 29th – July 3rd Campbell River BC
Transformations on the Shore
Campbell River Shoreline Arts
250-202-0176
May 14th – 15th
Woburn Abbey Craft & Food Fair
www.englishopenchainsawcompetition.co.uk
June 30th – July 4th Skagit County WA
Sedro-Wooley Competition
Contact Nyal Thomas 425-345-9621
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May 20th – 21st Arlington WA
Oso Mill Day
Debbie Anderson 360-708-4302
Debra.J.Anderson@boeing.com
July 9th – 10th Deming WA
12th Annual Hills to Mills
Jerry Heneger 360-599-3365
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May 27th – 29th Ocean Shores WA
Memorial Day Event Invintational
Steve Backus 360-224-2279
stumpcarver@whidbey.com
July 17th – 24th Virgilina VA
South Hill Chainsaw Carving Champs &
Lumberjack & Jill Champs
Tommy Winn 434-738-8207
tommy.winn@yahoo.com
May 27th – 29th Winnipeg, BC
Manitoba Agassiz Chainsaw Sculpture Rendezvous and Carving Camp
Russ Kubara jay.kay@shaw.ca
Myles Mclean mcleanml@hotmail.com
www.chainsawcarve.ca/events.html
May 28th – 30th St George Abergele UK
Carve Cymru Chainsaw Carving Event
www.woodfestwales.co.uk
May 28th – 30th Toei Japan
Toei Japan Chainsaw Art Competition
Jen Ruth 888-242-4672 jen@chainsaw.net
June 3rd – 5th Helen, GA
Buzz in the Blue Ridge Chainsaw Extravaganza
Mal 706-882-7598
www.georgiachainsawartist.com/
buzzintheblueridge.html
June 9th – 12th Chetwynd, BC Canada
Chetwynd Chainsaw Carving Championships
250-788-3345
www.chetwyndchainsawchapionahip.com
info@chetwyndchainsawchampionship.com
June 10th – 13th
Mulda Sachsen Germany
Husky Cup Tel. Nr. 06764 3531
www.huskycup.de
June 16th – 19th Reedsport OR
OR Divisional Chainsaw Sculpting Champs
Joe Mirvis Event Coordinator
541-361-9080 or 541-271-3495
jmirvis@charter.net
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July 16th – 17th Milton-Freewater OR
Logs to Frogs
Mike Watkins, 541-938-8236,
mike.watkins@milton-freewater-or.gov
August 6th – 7th Galeton PA
60th Annual Woodmen’s Show
Galeton Rotary Club 814-435-6855
www.woodsmenshow.com
August 12th – 13th Arlington WA
Country Carver Chainsaw Carving Show
Debbie Anderson 360-708-4302
Debra.J.Anderson@boeing.com
August 27th – 29th Cheshire UK
English Open Chainsaw Competition
www.englishopenchainsawcompetition.co.uk
September 3rd Carrbridge Scotland
Scottish Open Chainsaw Carving Champs
Gavin Gerrard +44 (0) 777 191 4598
info@carvecarrbridge.com
September 23rd– 25th Port Gamble WA
Steve Backus 360-224-2279
stumpcarver@whidbey.com
www.oldmilldays.com
October 1st – 8th Albuquerque NM
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
& Echo Chainsaw Carving Extravaganza
sandiabearcompany@msn.com
www.balloonfiesta.com
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Carving Tips
Thor says that using butter helps to remove sap.
Jack McEntire says that running your fuel mix at 30 to 1 will help
extend the life of your chain saw.
Bob King says to tool up, meaning you need to have the tools at
hand to do the job at hand.
Steve Backus says do as much with one swipe of the saw as possible
to speed carve.
Dave Tremko says walk around at a competition and watch some of
the best carvers to see how they remove wood to make art, then go
and do it…
Jerry Heneger says the most valuable tip he implements is to have
great reference material and pictures available.
Humming Bird by Elmer Hickey
Picture by Cima Bue
Ken Braun says have sharp tools, clean sandpaper, great abrasives
and have your tools ready for use, he uses a tool cart. He also says to
be sure you’re comfortable in your work area.
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Zoey Boni by her carving
Picture by Cima Bue