Bart Wilson of Guyton, Georgia recently honored me with a gift of three of his caricature carvings during the Dollywood Woodcarving Showcase, 2009. This was our first face to face meeting as we had only communicated with each other through the Woodcarving Illustrated Message Board. Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for October 18th, 2009
John Niggemeyer of Heath, Ohio was presented the CCA Merit Award by CCA Members Bruce Henn and Don Mertz at the Cincinnati Woodcarving Show, October 10 and 11, 2009. John’s wife Sara offers a congratulary smile as John receives this very special honor.
John is a very versatile carver with many years experience who excells is whatever carving genre he attempts. The photographs that follow are of some of his caricature carvings that were displayed at the Cincinnnati Show. Read the rest of this entry »
Charles Simpson, a carver and knife maker of Guntersville, Alabama has been making carving knives for many years. He is an active member of the Huntsville Carving Club and sells his knives at their show and other shows in the Alabama area.
I first became aware of his knives while I was teaching a class at Charles Leverett’s studio and one of the students, David Wilson gave me a couple of Charles Simpson knives. Those two knives cut like a dream and I was intrigued that Charles makes them out of Personna floor scrapper blades. Since then I have purchased three more that are pictured along with the two previous knives received as a gift. Read the rest of this entry »