Welcome to the Second 2010 Edition of your Chipping Away Newsletter

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Calling All Carvers - We Need Your Help!
Please send us a hand-carved Christmas Tree Ornament
for this year's Children's Wish Raffle

for more information including last year's results, please see
the bottom of this Newsletter.

Who's Got Butternut?  We've Got Butternut!
Butternut has been increasing difficult to purchase over the last few years due to the
butternut disease that ravished our trees both south and north of the border.  And when
you could find it, the price was way too high for carvers.

Those of you who have carved Butternut before do not need to be convinced of the properties of this
delightful carving wood.  Pop had a great opportunity to buy up a quantity of 2" thick Butternut "at the right price".
We milled top and bottom surfaces to expose and defects and then "cut them out"
leaving blemish-free quailty pieces.
Click here to see and order Butternut

Who's Got 'BIG' Cottonwood Bark?  We've Got 'BIG'  Cottonwood Bark!
We've just received a large shippment of Cottonwood Bark from British Columbia.  Variety
of sizes from One to Three Pounds.

Click here to see and order Cottonwood Bark

Rick Jensen - 3 Day Class Carving a Magical Tree House
In-The-Round - September 17, 18 & 19, 2020
Rick Jansen, an internationaly recognized author and award winning carver, has been
carving since his younger days while growing up in North Dakota.  Now living in
Northern Minnesota, Rick has been seriously carving for the past 24 years and teaching for 14 years.
Come prepared to use your imagination and have a
great time learning a new and distinctive approach to bark carving. Class will be held in a large event tent behind our new store location.
Click here for more information and to Register!

FIRST EVER WOODCARVER'S ROUNDUP IN ONTARIO
WoodCarver's RoundUP Sunday, May 16, 2010 in Copetown, ON
A roundup is where Carvers get together to enjoy doing what they like ~
"Carving, Sharing and Learning"
Don't miss this wonderful opportunity!
for details or to register for the Roundup see:
www.nhkroundup.webs.com
or email John Poole at:  ppoole8@cogeco.ca


Six New Books You've Just Got To Have
just click on each book for more information or to order!
   

   


Upcoming Shows and Competitions
Quinte Woodcarvers Show & Sale April 10,2010
at Loyalist College on Wallbridge Loyalist Rd,  Belleville, ON
for more information please email Brian Hodgins at: bri.lohodgins@sympatico.ca
&
Kalamazoo Valley Woodcarvers Show
May 1 & 2, 2010 at Kalamazoo County Fair Grounds
for more information please email Marilyn Osterhouse at: mosterhouse@sbcglobal.net


New Slip Strop for your Dockyard Micro Tools
now available "with" or "without the denim pouch"!

This new Slip Strop has been made to precise specifications and will keep your Dockyard Micro Tools
in perfect carving condition. 
Click here for more information on this great Micro Slip Strop

Just a Reminer - We've move our store location!
Now don't get all excited ..we didn't go that far.  Actually we only moved
about 125 yards south of the old location ..even have the same landlord.
When you come to visit you will see three Quanset Huts ( you know those half-round
buildings made popular back in WW2 times) ...we're in the last one with the flat
roof addition.  Cozy new store and we love it!
So our street address is now 836 instead of 808 and the same zip code.

New Mini Detail Knife from Denny

This is a great new detail knife from one of the best!
Click on the photo to order and see more Denny Knives.



Helping Children's Wishes Come True!
Our first contribution of a Christmas Tree decorated with hand-carved ornaments was
in December of 2008.  The event was organzied by Maycourt (a charitable organization) that featured
19 different Trees (various Christmas Themes) which had been decorated by various businesses
from the Kitchener area.  The Trees were fully decorated and displayed in a local Shopping Mall.

Raffle tickets are sold by volunteers at the event venue and participants place the stub of their ticket in
a 'draw box" located in front of the tree they hope to win.  19 Trees - 19 Draw Boxes.

We asked our Carving Friends and Customers to donate a ornament to this worth cause - and we received
many more than we could actually use on the tree.  The event raised $24,000.00 in 2008.

Again in 2009 we asked our Carving Customers to donate a ornament - and we received
more than we could use on the tree again. Michigan Woodcarvers alone decorated
enough to decorate our tree!   The 2010 event raised over $25,000.00.br />
AND ....we still had some decorations left over so our local Children's Wish Co-ordinator
sponsored two 'open house' events for Children's Wish Volunteers that might like to
purchase some decorations for themselves or gifts.  Those events raised another $2,000.00!

Our Problem Now ~ we are completely out of ornaments for this coming Christmas
and we need YOUR help - badly!

Would you like to donate a hand carved Christmas Tree Ornament
to help us raise funds for Children's Wish?  
The carving can be anything of a Christmas or Seasonal theme ...Santa, Angel,
Snowman, Nativity Figure, Star ...just about anything related to Christmas.
It can be painted, stained or left unfinished.  Please keep them "small" ...they have
to be light enough to hand from an artifical tree branch!
Please put your initials and State or Province on them.
We need them by the end of October and Please send them to us ONLY via
the Postal Service - NOT UPS!
Send them to:
Children's Wish Tree Ornaments
Chipping Away Inc
836 Courtland Ave East
KKitchener, ON   N2C 1K3

Does Your Carving Club have a Competition or Show Coming Up?/span>
Chipping Away is happy to help sponsor your club's show by providing a coupler of $25 Gift Certificates. 
Just have your Show Chairman contact Pop ... dennis@chippingaway.com