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August Meeting: The Iowa Show by Dick Belcher and our Ornaments Contest. The International Wood Carvers Congress is a big show, with seminars and a big contest. Dayton Carvers guild members did quite well in that contest. At our August meeting Dick Belcher will relate what went on and tell us about the carvings. Our August meeting is the last before Artistry in Wood. We will wrap up acquiring carved ornaments to be raffled at the show. We’ll have an ornaments contest with accolades and prizes. We need a lot more ornaments for our tree at Artistry in Wood. Carve a bunch and bring them to the August meeting.

Dayton Carvers Guild August 2016

www.daytoncarvers.com Find us on Facebook at Artistry in Wood, Dayton, OH

There are gaps in my carving club ignorance, which I am here conveying to you.

Please give your newsletter input to Marshall Stearns at (937) 837-0728 or lstearns@erinet.com.

Next Dayton Carvers Guild Meeting: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2016, 7:00 pm at United Rehabilitations Services Building, 4710 Old Troy Pike (at Needmore Road), Dayton, Ohio. Meetings are the 4th Tuesday of the month except there is none in December and the October Pot Luck meetings start at 6:30 pm. Program: The Iowa Show by Dick Belcher and our Ornaments Contest Cookie Contributor: Al Wurstner and Bill Wright

What is The Dayton Carvers Guild? It’s a group of wood carving enthusiasts. Some are experts and some are beginners. All are welcome. We meet monthly. See details below. At a typical meeting, we start with Show and Tell. Bring a carving, finished or just started. One of those showing something wins an item such as a knife or some glue from a grab box. We break for coffee and cookies, and then have a program. It might be a “how to” demonstration or a presentation of something related to wood or carving. Artistry in Wood is a big two-day show exhibiting carvings and woodworking, selling them, selling tools and wood and a competition. We put on this show. Carvers and folks that might be interested in carving are invited to come to our meetings. Bring your carving. If you have questions you may contact Marshall Stearns at lstearns@erinet.com or (937) 837-0728.

Volunteers in The Dayton Carvers Guild

Here is who does what. •  Artistry in Wood Chairman – Don

Worley •  Newsletter - write it, print and mail the

paper copies - Marshall Stearns •  Newsletter - address files, email notices

and postal address labels - Jan Fader •  Web Master - Carole Williams •  Web Site Liaison – Marshall Stearns •  Book Librarian - OPEN •  Video Librarian - Ray Kunz •  Refreshments Setup – OPEN •  50/50 Raffle - Sam Slagle •  Show & Tell Raffle - Terry Borger •  Room Setup and Teardown – Folks,

please come early and stay late to help. •  Club Photographers - Don Stephenson

and Lee Puckett •  Historian - Rick Morgan •  AIW Christmas Ornaments - Jim Moser •  Club Table at AIW - Betty Meehan •  United Rehabilitation Services Liaison –

Don Worley

We need someone for the book library and someone to set up coffee.

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When the chip carver got his bill at Marion’s it sounded like a tomcat being neutered without anesthesia. Join us if you can for an enjoyable lunch at high noon on the first Wednesday of each month. It’s at Marion’s North Piazza, which is at 3443 North Dixie Drive in Dayton. The pizza’s not half bad. (That’s high praise where I come from.) The 2017 Buckeye Roundup Date Save this date. The 2017 Buckeye Woodcarvers Roundup will run from July 19th through the 22nd. Their 2016 Roundup was great. Heartfelt thanks to the “doers” who made it all happen. Indiana Woodcarvers Summer Camp It’s in East Bremen, Indiana and it will run August 11 through the 14th. Classes will include chainsaw, bark, relief, pyrography, fishing lures, decoys, birds, gourds crafts and others. Do a web search for more info (I couldn’t get their website to load) or a Facebook search. Show Chairman Caren Brown may be reached at 616.706.9685 .

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,, From the Buckeye Woodcarvers Roundup Facebook Page

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Alkyd or Acrylic or What? Alkyd finishes are oil-based. Varnish and boiled linseed oil are alkyd finishes. Alkyd comes from the words alcohol and acid, the chemicals used to treat an oil, like soy bean oil, to make it cure to a hard surface. Urethanes are actually plastic. Some might be nearly as good as varnish. But, oil finishes are a different group. Oil finishes include mineral oil, raw linseed oil, walnut oil, real tung oil and teak oil. They don’t cure and they are not as hard as alkyd finishes. Evaporative finishes dry by, of course, evaporation. Shellac and lacquer are evaporative finishes. They dry to a hard surface but they do not have the water, alcohol and scratch-resistance of alkyd finishes. Latex finishes are water-based. They are scratch-resistant, more like varnish but less heat, water and alcohol resistant, like lacquer and shellac. Some are good. Acrylic finishes are water-based. What you buy may not be what the label says. A finish labeled as an exotic oil might be diluted varnish, which can be a good finish but it’s not that oil. And, some more highly promoted finishes (polyurethanes) have the merit for the manufacturer of being cheap to make.

More Buckeye Roundup

July Show & Tell Don Mertz owned the lucky ticket and he chose a carving knife. It’s kind of a curious-looking knife because there is a groove in the upper side of the blade so you may use your thumbnail to pull the blade out of the handle. But the blade does not fold into the handle! Dick Belcher got a batch of pocket knife blades (blades only) from Schrade Cutlery and he made these into carving knives. There is an active market for vintage Schrade knives (photo above) on eBay.

Volunteers Needed for Artistry in Wood We need every hand helping at AIW. This newsletter is too early to list who is working which time slots and which are vacant. So, I will just list who is handling each activity with his or her phone number. Please call them and tell them when you will work. Do it now. Get your relatives and friends to help also. Remember, working as a volunteer gets you free admission for that day. • Information Desk – Jan Fader, 937.277.8733 • Door Ticket Takers (Actually, you just see if they wear an admission wrist band.) – Bruce Henn, 937.667.8590, cell 937.308.1325 • Club Table – Betty Meehan, 937.277.2237 • Silent Auction – Norma and Bruce Henn, 937.667.8590, cell 937.308.1325 • Raffle Table – Sandy and Bill Gordon, 937.429-9828

Caricature Carvers of America The CCA will hold its annual meeting at the 2016 Artistry in Wood.

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Save your magazines for Artistry in Wood Remember to give your extra carving and woodworking magazines to the free magazines table (well, free but for a small donation) at AIW.

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My quill is broken, My inkwell, dry. This newsletter is short. That is why. (from Shakespeare in Love, sort of)