May Chippers Meeting - Tues. May 21

The next meeting of the Columbus Chippers woodcarving club will be Tuesday, May 21 at 6:00 PM at the Whetstone Community Center.  Ted Scherer will tell us all about carving golf balls - without using a golf club.  Be sure to bring your items for show and tell as well as your normal carving stuff.  See you on Tuesday.

April Chippers meeting

The next meeting of the Columbus Chippers Woodcarving Club will be Tuesday, April 16 at 6:00 PM at the Whetstone Community Center.  For this meeting, bring carvings that you have received in past Christmas gift exchanges and we will "show and tell" about them.  Any other carvings that you have received as gifts would be fair game for the "show and tell" also.  I know some of us have carvings that we have received from carvers who are no longer with us. It will be fun to see carvings that have been given of\ver the years.  See you all on Tuesday.

March Meeting

The next meeting of the Columbus Chippers Woodcarving Club will be Tuesday, March 19. Remember, meeting time is now 6:00 PM. Bring your normal show and tell, carving projects, and ideas for this years programs. Also, don't forget your carving tools. We will be carving this month. Wood will be provided.

February Meeting

The next meeting of the Columbus Chippers Woodcarving Club will be Tuesday, February 19. Remember, meeting time is now 6:00 PM. Bring your normal show and tell, carving projects, and ideas for this years programs.

At the February meeting, Graham Webb will tell us about the "Fallen Feather Project". The project was started to honor Ohio service members whose lives were lost in Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom and New Dawn. Ohio carvers will carve feathers modeled from the primary flight feathers of a Bald Eagle. Each feather will have the name of a fallen service member and will have its quill placed into a 50 caliber shell casing mounted on a sculpture. Graham will provide more information, as well as patterns and blanks for those interested in taking part in the project. The feathers will be carved from the wood of native trees grown in Ohio.

Don't forget, informal carving sessions still take place on the first Tuesday at 6:00 PM with the regular meetings on the third Tuesday at 6:00 PM. Keep those tools sharp.

JANUARY 15, 2013 - MEETING

The next meeting of the Columbus Chippers Woodcarving Club will be Tuesday, January 15. Remember, meeting time is now 6:00 PM. Bring your normal show and tell, carving projects, and ideas for this years programs. Speaking of programs -

January's program will feature a presentation by local woodcarver and artist John Habela. You may have seen John's solo show at the Lindsay Gallery last October which included his carved walking sticks and his ink renderings. Born in Hamburg, Germany, and raised in the USA, John is a self-taught artist, sculpture being his chosen medium. His work includes wood and metal sculpture, painting and pen and ink drawings. You don't want to miss it. If you google John Habela you will find links to his web site, some gallery references to some of his shows and a couple of you tube videos describing his work.

New Meeting tine and news!

At the November meeting members decided to change the meeting time from 7:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Meetings and carving sessions will now begin at 6:00 PM all year. Hopefully, this will be convenient for everyone and get everyone home a little earlier. The next carving session (December 4th) and the next regular meeting (December 18th) will begin at 6:00 PM.

The December meeting (December 18th) is our Christmas party. Remember to bring food to share, your carved ornaments to hang on the tree and any other carvings that you would like to share for "show and tell". If you signed up for the gift exchange, bring your wrapped carved gift to the meeting. If you can't make the meeting, and you signed up for the carving exchange, send the wrapped carving with someone else. Again, the next regular meeting is the Christmas party and begins at 6:00 PM.

IMPORTANT FACT:  Blogger is such a poor excuse for a managing site that as of now it is impossible for me to edit the NEXT MEETING side bar.  Will try again in a few days.......

CHIPPERS Meeting-Tuesday, November 20

The next Chippers meeting is Tuesday November 20th. Bring your carving tools. We will be carving something, maybe a snowman ornament, maybe something else? We'll find out at the meeting. We will also draw for the Christmas gift exchange. If you can't make the November meeting and want to get in on the exchange let Paul Herbeck know and someone will draw for you. pherbeck@msn.com or 268-9603 for Paul.

The December meeting is December 18th. Carvings must be done by the December meeting which is our Christmas party - pot luck food and gift exchange. Also bring ornaments for the December meeting to show off. December is also a good time to volunteer for club duties for next year. What do you think? How about club offices, programs or whatever?