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Old 02-19-2010, 07:41 AM
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If you could take a week long class from any carver, who would you choose?

Thanks for your help everybody.
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Old 02-19-2010, 07:51 AM
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PROBABLY Chris Pye, but there are so many others that there just aren't enough weeks!

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Old 02-19-2010, 07:53 AM
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Chris Pye, Frederick Wilbur, Phillip Odden and Mark Yundt.
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Old 02-19-2010, 07:59 AM
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For me it would be Mark Akers. His facial features are top notch,if you learn his style I believe you could bring that to any carving you are doing!!
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Old 02-19-2010, 08:36 AM
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Actually, I'm scheduled to do just that in September of this year.
I'm going to take from Else Bigton and Phillip Odden at Norsk Wood Works -- Norwegian Wood Carvers and Carving Woods in Wisconsin. I am really looking forward to it.
The weekend is going to be a workshop from Harley Refsal as well!

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Old 02-19-2010, 08:46 AM
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Ian Norbury and if he was still alive the great John Rood. This is an excellent post I will enjoy reading what our other members have to say.
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Old 02-19-2010, 09:18 AM
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Wow... so many... Tom Wolfe, Rick Jensen, Allen Goodman, Pete Leclair, the Bishops, Mark Akers, Wayne Shinlever, the list could go on and on and on... would be hard to pick just one.
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Pete LeClair, Gene Messer, Arleen (carverswoodshop), Lynn O.

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Old 02-19-2010, 11:54 AM
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Ditto, this would be an exhaustive list. Good call on Chris Pye. Ian Norbury, perhaps? But, if I had to choose _one_ carver to take a week-long lesson from, it would be Robert Davidson, the Michaelangelo of PNW Native carving.

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If I were to pick just one I think it would be Donald K Mertz. I have been a fan of his woodbee carving forum and think if I could learn from him I could really do the caricatures that I enjoy doing so much
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