Cost of the Butternut roughout is $25.

Jim will also offer a 2 day class "Human Face Carving, creating your own study sticks" This 2 day class is an introduction to face carving for the beginning woodcarver with little or no experience doing human faces. Students will have the opportunity to follow a methodology in developing a human face using just a knife. The emphasis of the class will be on the process, not the artistic nature of the carving. Students will go home with own Human face study sticks. Material for this workshop is $15.00

Jim winters in Florida and Grand Island NY in the summer. Contact Jim at jeodea@aol.com with questions.

Floyd has won numerous awards including the CCA Special Award in Dayton Ohio and recently a first place ribbon at the 2004 National CCA Competition. He teaches woodcarving classes all around the country including Michigan Woodcarving Seminars, Oscoda; Creative Woodcarving Seminar, Cadillac, MI in June each year; Woodcarvers Roundup, Evart, MI June each year; and NorthEast Woodcarvers Roundup, Honesdale, PA July each year. Floyd is looking forward to carving with new and old friends at the first Florida Roundup. Floyd will be teaching every day of the roundup.

Floyd has many blanks available which range in price from $8 TO $20. Generally 1 or 2 projects can be completed in a day. Floyd uses knives and palm gouges. Floyd will discuss his painting techniques and if there is time will do a painting demo one day. He uses watred down acrylic paints. Floyd is a 2007 inductee to the CARICATURE CARVERS OF AMERICA, Floyd was featured on the covers of all three major woodcarving magazines and took Best of Show, First and Second at the 2006 Caricature Carvers of America Show held at Dollywood, Pigeon Forge, TN. See several of his other carvings at his website

Pete, a resident of Gardner, Massachusetts, has been carving since 1973 and began showing his work in 1990. In 1994 Pete won Best of Show at the Susquehanna Decoy and Woodcarving Show in Pennsylvania, and is a two time Texas Whittling Champion in the open competition!

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Pete is a member of the prestigious Caricature Carvers of America. He was inducted into CCA in September 1994. He now teaches seminars throughout the country and recently taught and lectured in the UK and Australia.He is the author of three books. Carving Caricature Heads & Faces, Carving Caricature Figures from Scratch and "Carving A Caricature Bust". Pete also contributed to the book Carving the Full Moon Saloon and �Carving the Circus. Materials for the class will be $10

Pete teaches in a very structured manner, step by step. Thus to get the full benefit of the class students must be there at the start and stay thru the end of the class.

Pete recommends (but not required) : #9 sweep -5mm (Swiss gouge); #11-3mm (Swiss gouge); #9-3/8" (Harmen or Ramulson gouge); #7-1/2" (Harmen or Ramulson gouge).Pete will have several extras of these recommended gouges with him for the students to use during the class

You can see Pete's books at here on Amazon Books

Carl Borst lives in Schenectady, N.Y. and began carving in 1991 at the age of 58. His only regret is that he did'nt start sooner. He is basically self taught although he did attend three seminars, one with Peter Ortel, one with� Dave Sabol and one with Jeff Phares. He has never been one to copy others work or to use patterns from "how to carve books". He encourages his students to be creative and try to get movement in their work and to use photos for their patterns.

Soon after he started carving he found other carvers who had been at it longer than he, were asking him to help them. This made him realize that he enjoyed teaching also. In 1993 the editor at "Chip Chats" asked him if he would like to contribute his original patterns to the magazine. Since then he has been featured in numerous articles in "Chip Chats", his patterns have been on the back cover three times and most recently, his "Carousel Raccoon" was on the front cover in the 2007 May - June� issue. Carl has been teaching at Honesdale every year since we started and gets great satisfaction from helping carvers at all levels. He has been doing seminars and judging various wood carving events around the Northeast, plus� also gives "one on one classes" in his studio and group classes at various clubs. Although he accepts most any kind of commission, he has specialized in the human form both in caricature and realistic focusing on the human head. His caricatures usually tell a story and always lean toward the humorous side. The humor spills over into his classes so be prepared to laugh if you sign up for one of his classes.

Ed studied under many nationally known carvers including Vic Hood, Pete Ortel, John Burke, and Jeff Phares.� He won Best of Show honors in the 2001 and 2005 Conewago Carvers annual show as well as the West Shore Carvers 2001 show. Ed also teaches seminars on carving Native American Indians, wood spirits and gnome houses.

This year I'm going to dedicate Monday to carving Native American Style Flutes from river cane (bamboo). This is going to be a new, "first time" offering for me, so I'm limiting the class to eight students and allowing for a full day. If I have students finish by noon then I'll rotate some new students in. Only a sharp knife is required, but please bring long handled gouges and flat carpenters chisels if you have them. All other tools will be provided. The flute "kits" will be $25, and will consist of a piece of river cane, a large rubber band, and a totem block (from a variety of different styles). Leather wraps and ornamentation will be up to the student after the class. At least one Native American story will be told... possibly more... you have been warned -G-. This will be beginnermediate level at least.

Tuesday will be my traditional Wood-spirit-carved-from-cottonwood-bark class (full day). A knife, a v-tool, and an assortment of gouges are required. Minimum level: Intermediate. Cottonwood pieces will vary from $12 to $30 depending on size.

Wednesday will be a Flat-Plane Potpourri (full day). Several different small basswood figures will be available at different levels of difficulty (beginner to intermediate). Blanks will be from $5-$15 depending on complexity and "accessories". Some beginner kits consisting of a Flexcut KN13 knife, a strop, and sharpening compound will be available at $35 apiece.

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Bring your burner,2 Tips (skew & Shader, pencil eraser, ruller, Pen Tracing paper (wax free) & sandpaper (220 & 600) He has taught many woodburning classes in the York, Pa. area. Class limit 10

You will need awoodburner with temperature control and good burning tips. Dolores will supply wood and patterns. - Workshop limit 10.

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