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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@
Whittling Moravian Star
Ornaments
In
Woodcarving Illustrate
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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.
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.
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.
