Some pictures from Täljfest at Sätergläntan-

-Tage Lundqvist, playing an accordion that he made himself. 

- a large spoon/ladle carved by Niklas Karlsson

- Barn may have found his Swedish doppleganger?

- I really enjoyed a bit of quiet carving time with Wille.

-Tons of activity in the evenings outside the main wood shop.

Lots of stories and pictures from Sweden, come to the next meeting on Sept 9th. at Mississippi Market.

Nice Crooks are valuable... I always feel very lucky if I am able to split them
 and get two spoons from one.

Jögge split this one and got three good spoons out of it!

You don't see that every day.  

A great, quick axe-work video by Jarrod.

Jarrod roughs a spoon blank with an axe

after watching this, swing over to his blog to see more stuff:

http://jarrodstonedahl.blogspot.com/

Swedish Carving Techniques!

Awesome news!  Straight from Drew Langsner's mouth... er.. his newsletter:

"Taunton Press will be publishing a reprint of Wille’s hard-to-find book Swedish Carving Techniques. Of course the book and video will be available from Country Workshops."

Here it is...

This is the link to Kickstarter, which is an online donation engine to help raise money for small projects.

On the site, you are able to donate any amount of money starting at $1.

This is an excellent opportunity to help with a fantastic project.


<<< Kickstarter Link for Wille's DVD project >>>

The Spoon: Used by Every Human Culture in the World

sent to us by member Jean:

Splendid Table Spoon Story

Day-long Meeting on Saturday at the U.

This Saturday, Spoon Carving in the Art Dept. at the U of MN.

10am-4pm, there should be lots of people there and lots of stuff going on.

*Bring a snack to share if you wish, there are usually lots of different little things to eat... there are also a few options around for going out to get lunch.

Here is a map for Regis, and a couple of parking options:

http://goo.gl/maps/Ei22V


*Parking at the University is the only hitch...

-parking at the lots or ramps for the whole day on Saturday is supposed to be $6.

-parking on the street around Augsburg is free for 4 hours, maybe longer on Saturdays.

-parking on S. 9th St. (across the highway) is totally free, a 4-block walk.