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By Jim Zoellner
Completed Masterpiece
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Masterpiece in the Making
Carved Wood species include:
- Sweetgum
- Walnut
- Maple
- Purpleheart
- Pau Amarillo
- Wenge
- Bloodwood
- Mahogany
- Holly
- Zebrawood
- Gabon ebony
Garry Roux started a "friendly" competition between Bob Dickherber (member 8719) and Jim Zoellner (member 8364). At last count Bob came in with 7000+ pieces against Jim's 5251. Jim went back to work. It was never Jim's intention to let it be known what he was working on,however, here we are....
At the onset of the project, Jim gave it a one in ten chance to reach completion (xxxxx) glue interfaces, any one of which might fail and boom). Having survived this far, he still only gives it a 50/50 chance of survival.
Right now, there are ????? pieces (don't want Bob to have an advantage) 90 rings and it is 17 inches in diameter and 12 ½” tall.
Stay tuned for updates.
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By Earl Deemer
Thumb Drive
I have carved Thumb Tacks from many pieces of wood. The total at this time is over 1200. I have come up with a different idea. I purchased some cheap computer flash drives. Instead of inserting a nail and creating my thumb tacks, I carved a slot and inserted the computer flash drive. I now have created a thumb drive. Click on image to enlarge
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See newspaper article about Earl Deemer's hand carved thumb tacks
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Submitted by Allan Schwindt
website: Artist-Schwindt
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  Displayed are a couple of fotos from Allan, one of our IWCS members. He made an urn for the ashes of a past member of IWCS, Dr. Nathan Gale. Dr. Gale spent several years in Panama during the 90's and he acquired quite a lot of Cocobolo, a lot of carvings by the locals and a few other woods that he planned to work with in his retirement in Ashland OR. Unfortunately Dr. Gale has gotten Alzheimers and is now in a care facility in Southern Oregon. As a result of this illness, he gave a huge portion of his Cocobolo and a few other rare woods to Allan.
Allan recently learned that Dr. Gale's health is failing fairly fast and Allan was asked if he could possibly make the urn for Dr. Gale's ashes from some of his wood and include one of his carvings. One of Dr. Gale’s favorite animals is the snake and there were some great Cocobolo Snakes in existence so Allan put in some effort to find one. The size of the snake carving was not well suited for a standard urn shape, so he decided on a much flatter and shorter shape of the urn that would allow the use of the snake. Submitted 04/24/2016
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Submitted by Phil Conlon
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Submitted by Jim Zoellner
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Submitted by Chuck Holder
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 The "Menorah"Nine candle Menorah - silky sugar maple arms, willow base (Star of David), olive mount (round)
The "West Coast Collection":
Salmon -"Ts'iina" - pronounced "chee-na" (1996) - yellow cedar on W.red-cedar base,alder, 2 bentwood boxes (2007) - yellow cedar & western red cedar.
Wolf clan mask (2001) - Red "Inukshuk" crafted of the woods of each of the 13 official trees of Canada & its provinces. These little Canadian inukshuks, about 6 inches tall, make wonderful gifts for visitors to Canada.
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Submitted by Allan Schwindt
website: Artist-Schwindt
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Old Folks Shoe Horns - . About 22 inches long. 
 Back Scratcher - is laminated on a form. In this case, I used Black Walnut as the primary wood with Maple inserts. I started making these about 25 years ago and recently made a new form and tried a few more. This one is about 21" long with a 1½" turndown on the end. Back Scratcher close-up 
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Submitted by Larry Pulka
"Philadelphia"
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The Man-of-War Philadelphia was built around 1776 and ships of this type were used on rivers and lakes during the American Revolution. The model was built in ¼ scale from 12 different kinds of wood. Model has no paint or stain on it.
Model won 1st place and best of category at the Dayton, Ohio show of 2003, and 1st place and best of category at the Columbus, Ohio show of 2003.
Model was completed in 2003.
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Submitted by Keith Towe.
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A lidded box. It is 100mm. dia. x 75mm.high. from Forest Oak. Allocasuarina torulosa. - 
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Submitted by Greg Reed.
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This is a jewelry box I made for a friend's daughter. The box is primarily walnut with some maple and maple burl trim.
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Submitted by Allan Schwindt.
website: http://artist-schwindt.com/
- North American Map - 41" X 24" made from wood samples received from all states and provinces.
- Maple Leaves - Ladies Lapel Pins patterned from the Vine Maple Leaf. Presently made from 120+ different wood species.
- World Map - 50" X 32", made from wood samples received from all Countries represented, (except Antarctica)
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