James River Carving Competition, Richmond, VA

[Claude]

Just got back a bit ago from the James River Carving competition down in Richmond. Here are a few photos I took:

1. Best of show was a Novice carving.
2. Best of show, open division
3. Best of show, intermediate division
4. Judges Creative Award
5. Peoples Choice Award

More to follow...
Claude

[Claude]

More photos.

1. Mostly Novice Carvings
2. Novice and a couple of intermediate on the left
3. Intermediate
4. Intermediate
5. Intermediate

Claude

[Blake Lunsford]

Looks like a lot of fun Claude! Where did they have that competition? My sister lives up there and I've been to the woodcraft store up there. Just wondering if the club was related to the store. Thanks for sharing the pics! Always fun to see pics from a show!

Blake

[Claude]

More Photos.

1. Mostly intermediate
2. Intermediate ??
3. Open Division
4. Open
5. Sticks. Interesting to note: of all the sticks here, the blue ribbon on the left was for a walnut stick with no carving on it, other than smoothing it and some contouring around the hand grip area...

[Claude]

In addition to the straight carvings, the Richmond Woodturners also held a competition at the same time, with different rules, judges, etc.

1. Best of show, professional
2. Best of show, Adult. The figures, including Kokopeli, are actually carved into the vase.
3. Best of show, youth
4. General shot of the youth and adult sections
5. General shot

Claude

[Claude]

Last photos.

1. This is a wooden lathe, made by the gentleman operating it. It's treadle powered - and he says he gets about 250 RPM out of it.
2. One of my carvings - the hummingbird
3. Another of my carvings - the albatross
4. Another of my carvings - the mechanical bottle stopper
5. The last of my carvings - the folk art Santa for my wife

Claude

[Claude]

Yes, Blake, it was held at the Woodcraft store. The store is moving in a month, though - about 6 miles further West on W. Broad Street. So great deals in the store right now, so they don't have to move the stuff to the new location. I managed to restrain myself to only buying three small things.

Claude

[DiamondWillow]

Claude

Check out your carvings and they look great. A real variation of different types of carvings. Well done.

Thanks for sharing all the other carvings as well.

Gene

[Blake Lunsford]

Looks like a lot of fun Claude! I hate that I missed it, but know that area well! Glad you had a good showing!! Thanks for sharing the pics!

Blake

[mdallensr]

Thanks for taking all those photos and sharing them with us. Mike