Capital City Carvers

January 2008

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January to April

Jan. 5Eastern Box Turtle Workshop at Tallahassee Museum of History and Natural Science, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Barbara Mann - instructor. Call 575-8684 ASAP. Members $28, non-members $30; includes cutout.
  7No meeting (BCS Championship game)
 14Business meeting, show & tell, drawing for 2007 Show & Tell prizes, carvings returned from Senior Center display.
Program: Tips for Painting your Carvings with Adelle
 21No meeting - MLK Day
 28Carving. Fee for February weekend workshop, Santa Face in Relief, $90, due.
Feb. 4Business meeting, show & tell, door prizes, carving.
 8-10Workshop: Santa Face in Relief with Larry Nowell, guest instructor.
 11Program: Sharpening Your Tools with our club instructors
 18Program: Capital City Carvers, Year in Review slideshow
 25Carving
Mar. 3Business meeting, show & tell, door prizes, carving.
  Election of officers.
 10Carving
 17Program: Carving Found Wood with Barbara Mann.
 24Carving. Fee for Sign Carving Workshop, $80, due.
 26-30The Florida Woodcarvers Roundup
 31Carving
Apr. 4-6Workshop with Bill and Isa Hastings
  7Business meeting, show & tell, door prizes, carving.
 14Program: Sale. We're cleaning out the club storage cabinets. No offer refused! Carving.
 21Carving of the Month: Ozark Caricature with Robert Christian.
 28Carving

Thanks to Harold Lewis

We want to thank Harold and the staff of Lewis Digital for providing the copying of our newsletters. This has been a boon to our budget and given us a nice looking newsletter. And the editor loves getting the newsletter already folded! Thanks!!!

Weekend Workshops

February 8-9-10. Santa Face Relief Carving. On Friday night from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., our guest instructor, Larry Nowell, will hold a gouge sharpening workshop. This is open to all club members at no cost. The class members will be able to sharpen their tools and be ready to work on the face on Saturday morning. The Saturday and Sunday workshop, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., is limited to those who sign up and pay for the workshop. All workshop sessions will be held at the Light N UP Art Co-Op and Studios classroom, 208 NW 1st St., Havana.

April 4-5-6. Sign Carving. Bill and Isa Hastings of Black River, Michigan are our guest instructors for this workshop. They will provide boards and patterns. Students must have their own sharp tools (standard medium size gouge preferred). A 1/4" or 3/16" #11 veiner will do most of the lettering. A board holder is desirable. The final protective coat on the sign will be done by the student at home. We will check with workshop participants in February to see if we need to put a group order together for the tools and make board holders. If you want to woodburn a decoration, you need to bring your own woodbumer and pattern to the workshop.

This workshop will take place at the Light N UP Art Co-Op and Studios classroom, 208 NW 1st St., Havana. We will meet on Friday night from 6:30 to 9 p.m., and on Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Florida Woodcarvers Roundup

Hillsborough River State Park
March 26 thru 30, 2008

The fourth annual Florida Woodcarvers Roundup has moved to Hillsborough River State Park on US 301 North in Thonotosassa, FL. This is 12 miles north of Tampa and 7 miles south of Zephyrhills (see map). Carving classes will be offered every day, Wednesday through Sunday. RV and tent campsites are still available at the park, and several motels are nearby in Zephyrhills or on the interstate near Tampa. Some art and craft classes will be available for non-carving companions. Visitors are welcome at any time. The daily state park entrance fee is $4 per car load of up to 8 people.

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