Silver Dollar City Seminar

Paul_Guraedy · #1 03-11-2006, 10:33 PM

Wow! What a week of carving it has been. Diana and I arrived back home this afternoon. Attendance was down a little bit this year (maybe the cost of travel is beginning to have an affect). But there were still over 300 of us there, in about 36 classes.
Things were somewhat hectic for the first and last days. Silver Dollar City was installing some new rides and preparing for their seasonâ€™s opening next weekend. This meant that we had to ride buses from a remote parking lot to the two buildings where we were carving. Next year we have been promised a building in Celebration City (another facility owned by Silver Dollar City) with even more room and sufficient parking adjacent to the carving area.
We had one day of rain (much needed in this area) and beautiful weather for the rest of the week
In compliance with the admonitions I received when I announced that I was headed to this seminar, I am attaching some photos.

Paul_Guraedy · #2 03-11-2006, 10:43 PM

Here my friends are some more photos from the SDC/Ozark Mountain Woodcarvers Seminar. I thought I would throw in a new John Engler relief carving for those former USAF people.

And, of course, it would not be proper to show photos without including the grandfather of carvers Harold Enlow.

Anyway, it was great fun and I am looking forward to next year.

Paul_Guraedy · #3 03-11-2006, 10:46 PM

Did not notice that the Enlow pic got bumped.

wood-whittler · #4 03-11-2006, 10:52 PM

paul,

looks like great fun, i really like the santa releif, was that done in a harly schmitigen seminar?

bart

Paul_Guraedy · #5 03-11-2006, 11:16 PM

Yep, that was one of the carvings offered in Harley Schmitgen's class at this year's seminar. He came up with several new pieces; but, I failed to get pictures of them....too, busy on my own carvings. Midge Schmitgen is coming up with some really interesting wildlife roughouts in the same style as Harley's human-type figures. I have one of the mountain men that I carved in a Schmitgen class in my gallery.

squbrigg · #6 03-12-2006, 07:19 AM

Geez....a lot of carvers all at once. Sounds like you had a great time Paul. Thanks for sharing those pics with us. Some great looking work there.

Bob

Hi_Ho_Sliver · #7 03-12-2006, 08:58 AM

I would love to make that trip one day! I really doubt I would have the money or the time to take all the classes I would want ha ha

wade clark · #8 03-12-2006, 11:53 AM

Paul,
Looks like a great time! Maybe we can all meet there next year...that'd be fun!
Wade

Mark N. Akers · #9 03-12-2006, 08:04 PM

Paul:
Looks like from the pictures y'all had a great time,I miss going to Branson.We haven't been in 10 years since we moved south.