Blackhawk Carving ClubThe Blackhawk Woodcarver
Volume XXIV, Issue 7
Open Carving every Wednesday (8:30 to 11:00pm). Ken Rock
Community Center, 3218 Eleventh St, Rockford, IL 61109
Business Meeting; third Wednesday of the month. Friends and spouses of
carvers are welcome to come to meet and visit. Carvers
bring in finished carvings for “Show & Tell.”
Summer has arrived along with the
heat and humidity! Fortunately our carving room has two air conditioners and
the maintenance people were kind enough to have the room nicely cooled for
us. A very pleasant group of us enjoy our carving sessions punctuated by
jokes and exchange of tips and sharing of tools. Most
members are great carvers with individual expertise and knowledge; but
collectively, what a treasure!
I am continually impressed by the sharing of our hobby by our members. We
have members who share, and continue to share their knowledge through
teaching classes within our club, our city, and even the surrounding states.
The classes taught by them at our local Rock Valley College Center for
Learning in Retirement has introduced many to the hobby and led many to
become members of our club. I wish to share some words from one of our
members, club Treasurer, Larry Stenzel about a recent visit three of our
members did to a local retirement center.
“On June 14, Don Stansfield, Bob Hallstrom and I did a program at Fairhaven
Christian Retirement Center in Rockford. We all displayed some
examples of our work, as well as tools we use. Don had his remarkable
carvings, Bob had his beautiful chip carvings, and I had my pyrography.
We had a good crowd, both residents and staff. We had a nice big room,
set up more for discussion and Q & A rather than for demonstration.
Don went first, explaining about types of carving, woods, roughing out a
piece, the various tools, and safety. Bob then talked about chip
carving and the cuts each of his knives are used for. I talked about
pyrography equipment and described the process of transferring patterns onto
the wood, burning, and coloring.
Residents and staff were very attentive, polite and asked good questions.
They even served refreshments; I had a great slice of cherry pie. It
was a nice day.”
Larry’s report was very straight forward, and you can see the respect he has
for Don and Bob. Larry is also modest about his pyrographic pieces that have
won numerous ribbons. Of course there does appear to be an interest in
cherry pie as well!!
Tyrone Johnsen
Club
Activity Schedule
July 3 open carving
July 10 open carving
July 17 open carving and meeting
July 24 open carving
July 31 open carving
August 7 open carving
August 14 open carving
August 21 open carving and meeting
August 28 open carving
September 4 open carving
September 11 open carving
September 18 open carving and meeting
September 25 open carving
October 2 open carving
October 9 open carving
October 16 open carving and meeting
October 23 open carving
October 30 open carving
November 6 open carving
November 13 open carving
November 20 open carving and meeting
November 27 open carving
Doane
Experience
The Doane Experience will be in
Crete, NE from Sunday July 21 to Friday July 26, 2019
Denny
Neubauer Class
Denny Neubauer will be teaching a
class on miniature carving in Madison, WI. On July 27,
2019. See Denny for details.
Lake
County Carvers
Lake County Carvers will be holding
their Woodcarving Show on Saturday August 2, 2019 at the “Life Enrichment
Center” 1306 West Wisconsin Ave. Oconomowoc, WI from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
The
Musky Area Woodcarvers Workshop
The Musky Area Woodcarvers Workshop
will be held from August 13 to 16, 2019 at the Community Center in Boulder
Junction, WI.
Rock
River Valley Carving Club
The 14th Annual RRVC Carvers of
Wisconsin Show & Sale. Saturday, September 14, 2019, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Craig Center, The Rock County Fairgrounds, 1302 Craig Avenue.
Janesville, Wisconsin 53545. For more
information, Please contact: Reggie James - (608) 365-4281 or Brad
Crandall - (608) 931-0188. The chain saw carver is
Zoli Akacsos, of Zoli's Woodcarving.
www.rockrivervalleycarvers.com
19th Annual Woodcarving Show,
Competition and Sale. September 21, 2019 – 9am to 5pm.
September 22, 2019 – 9am to 4pm. The Holiday Inn, 1001
Amber Avenue, Stevens Point, Wisconsin 54482. Admission is $5.00. (Attendees
12 and under are free). For more information, contact: Ron O’Kray
715-341-2214 715-570-2534(cell), Greg
Wirtz 715-423-0471 715-323-2035(cell)
https://wisconsinriverwoodcarvers.org/2019-show/
Artistry
in Wood
Artistry in Wood will be holding
their last show on Saturday and Sunday October12 & 13, 2019 at the Roberts
Centre; 123 Gano Road, Wilmington, OH.
Capitol Carvers of Wisconsin
Capitol Carvers of Wisconsin will be
holding their 31st annual show & sale at the Abundant Life Christian School;
4901 East Buckeye Road; Madison , WI on Sunday October 20, 2019.
Deadline for the news for
the next newsletter is August 7, 2019
August
Birthdays (that we know of
1 Richard Prutz
8 Elaine Terrell
14 Hervell Fuse
14 Judy Englund
28 Denny Neubauer
Door
Prizes
Blackhawk Carving Club Minutes June 2019
Minutes of the regular monthly
business meeting of Blackhawk Woodcarvers; held on June 19, 2019 at 3218
Eleventh Street, Rockford, Illinois.
President Tyrone Johnsen opened the
meeting at 9:06 am.
Secretary, Steve Terrill read the
Minutes of the previous meeting May 15th. The
minutes were approved as read.
Treasurer: Larry Stenzel reported
that we are solvent and gave some numbers. Larry will
bring the new picture directories to the Club next time.
Membership: Chuck
Drewes reported that we are currently in the membership doldrums’.
Tyrone talked briefly about the new
picture membership directory. Chuck noted that there is
one member who requested his name be taken off the membership rolls.
That would be Mike Rutter.
Picnic: the
picnic was a nice day. There were about 20 members present.
Tyrone wishes to thank Gary Lundstrom and Tony DaVita for their help
in setting up the picnic as they have in the past.
Facilities: Our
rent is paid to December 1st. We are still
pursuing a move to Peterson Meadows, between Mulford and Perryville on
Newberg road. Bob Matthews has been doing the negotiating
for us. His latest information suggests that the facility
will be open after Labor Day. Bob Matthews suggests that
we make a trip over there in August and see how the place works for us.
They would be open to our Wooden cabinet with the library and
sharpening equipment. Tyrone suggests that we still need to look into
changing the configuration of the cabinet extension so that we can get
through doors more easily. We have an extensive library
of books, even some overflowing to one of the metal cabinets.
We have a coffee pot and supplies like paper plates and lots of soap
to carve. Steve interjected that he still gets requests for soap carving
events. In a show of hands there was only one or two
interested in soap carving. Tyrone mentioned that Bunny
and Martha still show interest in soap carving.
Gary Curl suggested that the
committee working on finding an alternative carving location make
recommendations to the club about what we should do with our storage issues.
Jim Foster brought it to the club’s
attention that one of our members, Ray Pederson is a resident of Peterson
Meadows and has suggested that as a great place for our meetings.
The meeting was adjourned for show
and tell at 9:32 am
Respectfully Submitted: Steve
Terrill, Club Secretary
President,
Tyrone Johnsen, 397-9274
Vice Pres, Louis Jurisch, 568-7096
Treasurer, Larry Stenzel, 389-4714
Secretary, Steve Terrill, 708-0471