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SUMMER 2013

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We’d love to hear from you! Send

us your comments and ideas

on woodcarving to: From Our

Mailbag, Woodcarving Illustrated,

1970 Broad St., East Petersburg,

PA 17520, or e-mail: editors@

woodcarvingillustrated.com.

Whittling Moravian Star

Ornaments

In

Woodcarving Illustrate

d

Holiday 2012 (Issue 61) Jody

Sebring indicated that he didn’t

know the origin of the Moravian

star. A web search turned up

the Monroe County Historical

Association’s site, which indicated

that the stars originated in Saxony,

Germany, where they were used

to demonstrate geometry in

Moravian schools.

For people carving the stars,

I suggest you leave the layout lines

on the blank as you carve the edges

of the points. When you do the

final sanding, you can sneak up on

the line from both sides to create

a straight and true edge with no

waviness.

Ed Barnett

Via e-mail

Editor’s Note: Thank you, Ed, for

the history of the stars. Jody is still

looking for the origin of the basic

pattern he used to create his stars.

Do any readers know where the

pattern came from?

I would like to thank

Woodcarving Illustrated

and Kathleen Ryan for the article “No Vision

Required” in the Spring 2013 issue (Issue 62).

I am a woodcarver who recently began losing

vision in one eye. After the doctors diagnosed

the problem and told me my vision loss would

be permanent and possibly worsen in both

eyes, I became somewhat like a ship’s sail with the

wind taken away from me.

When I received the Spring issue of

Woodcarving

Illustrated

, I picked up my now very useful magnifying

glass and began reading. My heart raced as I

discovered the “No Vision Required” article and read

FOX HUNT

John Banack of Murrells Inlet, S.C., and Julie

Guthrie of Phoenix, Az., are the winners drawn

from the correct entries received for

WCI

Spring 2013 (Issue 62). The fox was hidden on

page 48, in the pattern for the Dragon Puzzle

Box.

Find the fox in this issue, and contact us with

the page number and location. Two readers

randomly selected from all correct replies

will receive a $25 Fox Chapel Publishing gift

certificate. Entries must be received by June 25,

2013, to be eligible.

NOTE: With his feet on the

“ground,” the contest fox faces left (other foxes in

WCI

don’t count).

Send your entry to

Woodcarving Illustrated

,

Attn: Find the Fox, 1970 Broad Street,

East Petersburg, Pa. 17520, or enter online

under the contests link at www.

woodcarvingillustrated.com.

Vision-Impaired

Woodcarver

from our

mailbag

Carving Pencils

I’m having a hard time finding

resin or plastic pencils, like the

ones Randy True uses in his

book

Whittling Pencils

and in the

“Carving a Leprechaun Pencil” in

Woodcarving Illustrated

Spring

2013 (Issue 62). All of the pencils

I find have a wooden body.

Paul Dezii

Cherry Hill, N.J.

Editor’s Note: Randy True is also

having trouble finding resin pencils,

so he suggests the basswood pencils

available from The Woodcraft

Shop, 800-397-2278, www.

TheWoodcraftShop.com.

through it. The inspirational stories of the vision-

impaired carvers was like a strong wind filling my

deflated sail. Thank you so much for reenergizing my

carving spirit!

Scott Burke

Adel, Iowa

This toy tractor with wagon was designed and built by Armando Del

Gobbo, one of the blind woodworkers featured in our Spring issue.

Woodcarving Illustrated Issue 72 Fall 2015

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