MEETINGS 2018-2019

Photo credit Ed Conti

MONTH        Meeting Night                    Open Carving


September     TUES 9/11/18                   WED 9/19/18
OCTOBER    TUES 10/09/18                 WED 10/17/18
NOVEMBER TUES 11/14/18                WED 11/27/18
DECEMBER  TUES 12/10/18                 WED 12/19/18

2019 DATES TO BE DETERMINED

START TIMES  MEETING NIGHTS  7:30 PM
OPEN CARVING NIGHTS 6:30 PM

Ed Sesack 1942-2018

 

 

 

 

Ed died Sunday...  he was a friend to all...

He will be waked Wednesday at

Dalton Funeral Home   Ph 516-931-0262

47 Jerusalem Ave

Hicksville, NY  11801

 TIMES...2-5 pm and 7-9 pm

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Burial Thursday PRAYERS WILL BE SAID AT 10 am and then to :

Pinelawn Cemetery  Ph 631-249-6100 ext 0

2030 Wellwood Ave

Farmingdale, NY  11735



"Really Gonna Miss You"
  by Smokey Robinson

Really gonna miss you
It's really gonna be different without you
Time is gonna be hard and slow
For the rest of my life
I'm gonna be thinking about you
(Yes, I am)
Time came when you had to go

I'll miss you my buddy
I'll miss you my friend
I promise my love for you will never end

In your finest hour, I was there with you
And without you things won't be the same
But there's a higher power that we answer to
And you heard Him calling your name

Really gonna miss you
Everything about you, your smiling face
I know you want us all to be strong

Really gonna miss you
I know you're gone to that magic place
Singing you a brand new song

I'll miss you my buddy
I'll miss you my friend
I promise my love for you will never end

I'll miss you my buddy
I'll miss you my friend
I promise my love for you will never end

Really gonna miss You ...

Outline For Painting Your Carving

If you are looking for a concise and clear approach to painting
your carvings and projects this page is for YOU!

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Beginning Woodburning!

If you are interested in learning more about pyrography, wood burning CLICK HERE

Carving Books...

Enchanting Illustrations Carved From Old Books

Open the covers to a world of holloways, moonlit leaves, and forest creatures.

by Anika Burgess

April 06, 2018

 

 

 

   What happens to old hardcover books that no one wants any more? There’s donation and recycling, but it seems that as often as not they end up forgotten, in boxes and piles in garages, attics, or basements, where they can grow musty and moldy. But sometimes they can be repurposed, and if they find themselves in the hands of illustrator Isobelle Ouzman, they can be art. Her ongoing project, Altered Books, takes donated or discarded hardcovers and converts them into hidden, three-dimensional landscapes.

 

   “My altered accidentally,” Ouzman says, in an email interview. “I came across a cardboard box full of hardback novels one day, sat outside in the rain. As a lover of books, I brought them home to dry out, and repaired some of the bindings, determined to use them in some way.” Instead of reading them—she wasn’t a fan of the genre—she began to draw on the first page of one of them. “I don’t quite remember what brought me to start carving into the pages, but a few months later I had my first finished altered book. That was back in 2012. Ever since then I have been developing them into what they are now, trying to find the best way to build them.”

 

To read the rest of the story....CLICK HERE

The Whole Process of Doing a Carving Project

       Carving Clyde

By Bill Russo

Things aren’t always what they seem to be. I thought Clyde , a roughout from G.B. Sears woodcarvers and Suppliers whose name was supposed to be Muley would be easier than some I had already done. It isn’t. I renamed him Clyde because I prefer Clyde.

There is a lot of extra wood in this project and a carving knife is slow going. It can be done, of course and maybe if I was on a deserted Island with nothing else to do and  had no other options I think I could get it done.

What Happened to the First Chair Grown From Living Trees?

By Sarah Laskow

SOMETIMES, IF YOU’RE LUCKY, YOU stumble across corner of the world that immediately captures your imagination. Last summer, when I got into the world of tree shaping—the practice of coaxing trees into sculptures and structures, useful and otherwise—I wanted to know everything I could about it. Eventually, I visited and wrote about a small company in England, Full Grown, that is working to grow an entire forest of chairs, tables, and other furniture. But a small mystery remained, one that I couldn’t let go of: What happened to the original “Chair That Grew,” the first chair coaxed from growing trees?

The first person to mention this chair to me was Richard Reames, author of Arborsculpture, who practiced tree shaping for many years. In the first decade of the 20th century, he said, a man named John Krubsack started to grow a chair.

Carving Spoons

Some years ago, my wife broke a cheap wooden spoon in the kitchen. She turned to me and asked, “How hard would it be for you to make a wooden spoon?” I had a few hand tools, and we began to experiment on whatever wood scraps we had on hand. Eventually I found out that traditional wooden spoons are lap-carved from green wood, but I was already well on my way to developing a method that worked well in dry hard- woods. I have since made hundreds of spoons and spatulas in many sizes, from two-foot-long stirring spoons to two-inch tasting spoons. Spoon making is also fast. Once you master the techniques, you can go from stock selection to applying the finish in one hour....

Read the rest of the story and learn about spoon carving   clickhere

Meeting Dates 2018

​​LONG ISLAND WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION

​​​​​2018

​​Carving Mtg​​​​​Open Carving

February​​13 Tuesday​  ​​​21 Wednesday

March​​13 Tuesday​​​​21 Wednesday

April​​​10 Tuesday​​​​25 Wednesday

May​​​8 Tuesday​​​​16 Wednesday

June​​​5 Tuesday​​​​20 Tuesday

September​​ 11 Tuesday​​​​19 Wednesday

October​​9 Tuesday​​​​17 Tuesday

November​​ 14 Tuesday​​​           27 Wednesday

December​​11 Tuesday​​​​19 Wednesday

Marjorie Post Community Center

451 Merrick Road Massapequa N.Y.

One-handed Woodcarving

One-handed woodcarving - a few thoughts about tools and techniques that could help people with the use of one hand only

 

By Alistair Park, Bristol, England  Web link for more stories CLICK HERE 

Recently, someone contacted me with a very interesting question. This person had suffered a stroke a year ago and was now confined to a wheelchair, having also lost the use of their left hand. They were previously right-handed. 

The question was simple: did I think that a person with the use of only one hand could carve?

I sent a reply and, after some thought, realised that it may also be of interest to others who are temporarily or permanently in a similar situation. Although I currently have the use of both hands, I have experienced periods when injury has brought such considerations to mind.

The answer that I emailed back is reproduced in this post, with some alterations, extra images and information:

Can someone with the use of only one hand carve? My answer is a very definite yes!

I'd say that the question might be: what would you like to carve and which tools and techniques will enable you to do it?