Charlotte Club Showcase of Wood Carvings 2011

[RWG]

This weekend (February 18-20) is the annual Showcase of Wood Carvings in Charlotte, NC. It's not too late to enter, because you can sign up when you get there. Best thing is to arrive Friday evening and get registered between 5:00 and 7:00. Details are on the club website at: Charlotte Woodcarvers Club Showcase

I would be glad to answer any questions. Hope you can make it!

Rod Gatlin

MODERATOR NOTE: I combined the multiple threads into one - Pictures and comments about the show are now in this thread.

[Blake Lunsford]

Looking forward to it Rod! I know there will be a lot of great carvers at this show displaying a lot of great work! If you are on the board and come to the show, look around for other people from the board....great way to make new friends and put faces to names!

If you come, see you down there!!!


Blake

[Mitchell]

Already a thread.... Charlotte NC Showcase of Carvings 2011???????? It had slipped a couple of pages back.

[fpace]

Hi all.. thought you might like to see some pictures of the Charlotte show. It was another great show.. lots of wonderful carvings and of course carvers to go with them. Now the last picture is one only a mother could love. Forrest took one too but he threatened to do some "special" editing and blakmail us all... can't wait to see that one! The other pics are some of the best of open category winners. More in the next post..

WCI members in the first picture (L to r):
Badjo, fpace, Arnold Smith, Blake Lunsford, tnartist05, Jeff Bailey, Mitchell.
There were others there - these just happened to be together when a picture was taken.

[fpace]

Our own Jeff Bailey won best of show in miniatures for his mountain man. I apologize for the blur but it was so small I couldn't get it to focus. The theme of the show was appalachain life and the 3rd picture is the show theme winner. The first two are once again our own Blake Lunsford with a mini santa and one of his ornaments from his article in the magazine. Congrats on the ribbons fellas! By the way Jeff won 6 or 7 firsts... I lost count!

[fpace]

I think the first pic below is Forrest's wagon... again it was so small I couldn't get a good focus... I would go absolutly blind trying to carve that small! Great win there ol' buddy! Arnold Smith's hobos are next... gotta love them Scott boys! Lynn wasn't there but his influence and inspiration certainly was! Thank you Lynn for all you do!

[fpace]

Here are a few more pictures of some of Jeff's work.

[fpace]

Last but not least.. here are some Santas and a couple of other pics. What a great show and a great time to catch up with some great carving friends! Hope you enjoyed the pictures!

Carve on...

[Tom Ellis]

Fred, Thank you for posting all of the pictures. It is great to be able to see some of the carvings from other parts of the country.
Gongrats to all the winners. Looks like a great show.

Tom

[Tom-H]

It sure looks like a great show, especially from the looks of these photos and the carvings shown. Thanks for posting...

Tom H