The Blackhawk Woodcarver
Volume XXVIII, Issue
3
We meet every Wednesday at 9:00 am
until 12:00 noon at the Ken Rock facility at 625 Adams Street, Rockford, IL.
KenRock is located in the area of Rural and North 2nd St.
Presidents
Report March 2023
Why do you carve? For some carvers,
it's the finished product, while for others, it's the process, or journey. A
well-done project is always rewarding, but more so with remembering the
challenges and how you mastered them.
Please carve an Irish-related item
for our March Show and Tell. Clip Art on Google is a good source for
patterns and inspiration.
We often think of the Celtic Knot.
Did you know that centuries-old Buddhist symbols includes an Endless Knot?
Former member Gary Curl recently
died. Gary was one of our past presidents, humorist retired minister and
prison guard. He was always trying something new. Many of us will cherish
having him as a friend.
Don Stansfield
CLR
Beginning/Intermediate Class
CLR, the Center for Learning in
Retirement. It will be a beginning/Intermediate class.
It will be taught by Gordy Moscinski for the beginner portion and
Denny Neubauer for the intermediates. The class will be
held at 9:00 am until 12:00 noon at the Ken Rock facility at 625 Adams
Street, Rockford, IL. Ken Rock is located in the area of Rural and North 2nd
St. The dates are March 8, 15, 22, and 29.
Knives and wood blanks
will be furnished. If you have any questions call Gordy at 815.558.1938 or
Denny at 815.238.5296.
Secretary report for February 2023
Minutes of the regular monthly
business meeting of Blackhawk Woodcarvers; held on, February 15, 2023 at Ken
Rock Community Center, 625 Adams Street, Rockford, Illinois 61107.
President Don Stansfield opened the
meeting at 9:32
Don wanted to thank all of those who
carved hearts for Valentine’s Day. There are a bunch of
really neat ones, some chip carvings, caricatures, abstracts and wood
burnings from Larry
For March Don’s challenge is to
carve anything Irish, Leprechauns, shamrocks, Celtic knots, shillelaghs.
If you go to your computer and type
in clipart/Celtic knot you will get a lot of patterns and they are free.
Some of the free ones you can copy directly while others want you to
join something to get the free clipart. He thought about dying his hair
orange for St. Pat’s but he did not want to look like the people with orange
hair.
Don reminds us that
next month is the CLR class here and that if interested you have to sign up
with CLR, the Center for Learning in Retirement. It will
be a beginning/Intermediate class. It will be taught by
Gordy Moscinski for the beginner portion and Denny Neubauer for the
intermediates. Also the Wood Congress will be in June and
they have some really great classes scheduled; one day classes, two day
classes, three day classes and 5 day classes with some of the best
instructors in the United States. Their show is open
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and it is well worth the trip.
A correction to last month’s Jane
Pfeiffer’s story for her 102nd birthday; that she started carving
when she was about 90 years old, not 9.
That is all that Don has for notes.
There was no old business and no new
business. Gordy reminds those who do not have band saws
that we have a whole bunch of blanks cut out for various carving
opportunities in the club storage cabinet.
Larry Stenzel reminds us that we are
still very solvent.
That ends the business part of the
meeting.
Respectfully submitted; Steve
Terrill, Club Secretary.
Blackhawk
Carving Club Website
The Blackhawk Carving website is
blackhawkcarving.com It has the newsletters from the
beginning of the club plus other good information.
Accepting
dues for 2023
We are accepting dues for 2023.
Larry will try to be at each meeting, although things do come up. If
people want, they can send dues to Larry Stenzel’s home address: 7689 North
Gate Road, Roscoe, IL 61073. $25, Cash or check. He will get
them a receipt.
Larry Stenzel
Newsletter
deadline
Keep sending your pictures and
stories by the April 5, 2023 deadline.
Door Prizes
Don't forget the Door Prize drawing
on First Wednesdays. Bring something you don't need or want
anymore, but know someone would be thrilled to win at the drawing.
Carvers
wanted
Sometimes I get calls from people
wanting to have a carving done (for money). If you are interested in
any of these contacts, let me know and what kind of carvings you are
interested in doing for people. Don Stansfield
dchip1508@comcast.net
Want to buy
or sell
If you have anything that you would
like to buy or sell send me an email and I will put it in the newsletter.
Gordy
Facebook
April
Birthdays (that we Know of)
10 Franklin Johnson
19 John Skaggs
21 Bunny Nordheim
President, Don
Stansfield, 235-0075
Vice Pres, Richard Dunphey, 633-9003
Treasurer, Larry Stenzel, 389-4714
Secretary, Steve Terrill, 708-0471
Committees
Programs, Richard Dunphey, 633-9003
Webmaster & Newsletter Editor Gordy Moscinski 874-7978
Photographer Steve Terrill
Picnic Tony Devita
Snow Daze Carve In
APRIL 28-30, 2023 Sponsored by Central Minnesota Woodcarvers
Association of St. Cloud, MN. Loyal Order of Moose Lodge 1300 3rd St. N.,
Waite Park, MN 56387
A - PYROGRAPHY - Brenda Lodermeier.
Brenda has been carving & working with pyrography for the past 12 years. She
is an active member of the Central MN Woodcarvers Association and on the
Board of Directors for the Rio Grande Woodcarving Show in Mission Texas. If
you are a beginner or advanced pyrography student, this is the class for
you. Let’s learn or renew the basics and work with different techniques,
emphasizing your style and completing projects on a variety of wood species.
Instructor will discuss preparation of wood, patterns, and use of burners
including variety of tips and cleaning. Students are encouraged to bring
additional lighting, graphite paper and their burning units. Many patterns
and design available. Student may start with a barn project or bring one of
their own. I have many patterns to choose from. Brenda is an authorized
Colwood Dealer with burners, tips, wood and supplies for purchase. Cost:
$50.00 Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced Class size: 10-12
B - RELIEF, WOODBURNING & PAINTING -
Fred and Elaine Stenman Students will learn the techniques developed by
Elaine and Fred, which combine low relief carving with details that are wood
burned. The carvings are painted with very thin acrylics and stained with
oil paint. Tool techniques for full sized gouges and wood burning tools
along with elements of design will be taught. Students may select from three
of the Stenmans’ original designs: 1. A building and fence post are carved.
Details woodburned. Background will change to due to limited time. 2. A
rainbow trout jumping. The fish is carved. 3. A common loon swimming
(carved). Woodburned grasses. The projects will be executed in basswood with
the bark remaining on the edge to create a natural frame. The paints and
brushes are provided. We encourage students who are new to the class to do
our low red barn or cabin relief as they are a great learning experience.
If you have any questions, you can phone us: (651) 485-0580. You can also
email us at: fhstenman@gmail.com Students new to our style of carving,
should practice woodburning details on a 6” X 9” printed board during the
class. Cost: $30 Materials: 12 1/2” rounded board (with design): $18.00 6” X
9” printed practice board (optional): $8.00 Skill level: Beginner to
Advanced Class size: 10
CONTACT WAYNE NICOLOFF AT
612-750-8716 IF YOU HAVE ANY ?’S.
Gary Curl
Former member Gary Curl recently
died. He was a former President of our Club. Services will be held April 1
at the United Methodist Church in Sycamore. Visitation at
10 am. Service at 11.
United Methodist Church
160 Johnson Ave
Sycamore, IL
Ken Rock
Closes When Rockford Schools Close
Ken Rock will be closed if the
Rockford Public schools close due to inclement weather.
Show and Tell
Bob Matthews carved
a raven
Dick Dunphey showed
two caricature carvings, one of a man leaning against a log and a second of
a Viking holding a shield and spear which is the mascot of Augustana where
his granddaughters attend college.
This is one I got done.
Bob Coleman
Rich Talbot brought
in a colorized wood burning of a bumble bee for a friend’s daughter; and a
red heart pierced by an arrow larger than the hole in the heart.
It was challenging to get the arrow through without breaking it.
Carol Benning
brought in a stand with three snowmen dangling with different color hats and
scarves. She also completed and painted the wizard which
had been a class project.
Jim Foster brought
in some doodles, an elephant holding a heart, a read heart pierced by an
arrow, a squirrel holding a candy heart with “Be Mine” like a candy heart, a
gnome holding a large red heart, and a pin with two hearts and an arrow
through them.
Denny Neubauer
showed 3 caricature carvings which will be samples for his upcoming class.
One a Viking with a shield, a second a gnome with a tall wizard hat,
and a third, a small multicolored toucan.
Larry Stenzel
brought in a basswood board in a mini holder which had a cutout of a heart
surrounded by chip carved filigree and the word Bella, his grandchild.
Another chip carved cross.
John Skaggs
Bob Hallstrom
brought in a chip carving of a practice board for a box with a squared off
heart as a central theme.
Tony DaVita brought
in older carvings of a bird house, with a face of a wood spirit, a Cyprus
knee with an old man with a white beard and a carving of a caricature with a
Golf ball in a cage below. He had a story about his
attempts at putting the golf ball in the cage.
"Lino-cuts made by Roger
Benedict during his three Print Making classes at Rockford
University a few years ago. Generally wood is used but at the classes
special linoleum material was used. The prints were made from these
lino-cuts."
Gordy Moscinski
showed two hearts intertwined, and 4 other hearts, one with a landscape
painting, two of walnut, one of two figures dancing on it, and a necklace on
a leather strap of walnut with a twist in the heart.