Enjoy your holidays... and when you have the time, listen to this great Kevin Kling story:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4510530

Jarrod Stone Dahl @ S.V.C.C.

- Thanks again to Jarrod for a sweet demonstration last Friday.

Axe Grind definitions:

I cannot really say it better than this, so I stole these definitions from http://woodsmithexperience.co.uk

Niklas Karlsson carves a spoon

I had the chance to do a workshop with Niklas in Sweden last summer, and also just spend a few days hanging around and getting to know him. Niklas is an awesome guy, very skilled and very sweet.

Per Helldorf mechanical sculpture

Looking for some inspiration?

...follow this link to the digitized archives of a whole lot of Swedish Museum collections.

http://www.digitaltmuseum.se

I can be helpful to know that in Swedish, spoon is spelled "sked".

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.