We had a great time at the Let The Chips Fly Show and Contest. Please view some of the work that we saw, and it was all beautiful!!!!! These are high resolution images, so click on them to explode the wonderful detail!!

Beautiful segmented bowls above.

Our Native American heritage is alive and well in our area.

Native American Papoose circa early 1900's on display.

One of the vendors gave our kids some feathers and arrow heads made from cedar, great folks!

Intarsia in the works!

Our local high school made a good showing from their wood shop class! Some juniors and seniors had some great work. I don't know why they exhibited only and did not enter the contest.

The following images are the entries in the contest, most were gone with their owners, they took them away Sunday morning after Saturday's judging so the images are few. But most of the entries were turnings and carvings, some beautiful work!

Our Walnut Chair we entered!

This photo above of the red tail hawk and following image of the same carving, was the First Place winner in it's category of carving and "Best of Show" overall to take home the grand prize of 1600 dollars! And man was it beautiful, the detail the artist put into this piece is incredible, and color and paint, it is life size and a joy to see. It rightfully so earned the highest honor of the show.

That's it folks!!!! As some of you know our walnut chair took First Place Blue Ribbon in the furniture category! Well, we were the only furniture in the category! LOL, but hey, we'll take it. It was fun, and we got to meet some great folks.

The organizer David Santos holds one of these local shows yearly, all proceeds from the table rentals, entry fees, and other dues outside folks paid, go to our local high school wood shop programs to help keep shop alive in our school system. It was an honor to contribute to this great cause, thank you David Santos!!!!!!!

And thank you Patriot Woodworkers for coming along.

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker
Proud Supporter of Homes For Our Troops and Wounded Warriors Project

Wow that is some awesome woodwork. I hope you were able to sign them up to The Patriot Woodworker.

Thanks for sharing those beautiful pictures John.

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John Moody
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John,

Very nice show.

It's good to see that there are still a few schools that have shop classes.

Seeing the students work brought back some fond memories.

The "brains" around here did away with shop classes years ago.

 

Larry

Old Woodworking Machinery Forum Host

Thanks John, I invited a few folks! It was a very fun day. Seeing all those turnings, just absolutely beautiful, and all the other work as well.

John Moody said:

Wow that is some awesome woodwork. I hope you were able to sign them up to The Patriot Woodworker.

Thanks for sharing those beautiful pictures John.

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John Moody
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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker
Proud Supporter of Homes For Our Troops and Wounded Warriors Project

Mostly done way with around here too Larry. Although our county and our district seemed to have held on to the shop programs. We are very fortunate.

Larry Buskirk said:

John,

Very nice show.

It's good to see that there are still a few schools that have shop classes.

Seeing the students work brought back some fond memories.

The "brains" around here did away with shop classes years ago.

 

Larry

Old Woodworking Machinery Forum Host

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker
Proud Supporter of Homes For Our Troops and Wounded Warriors Project

John,

Sooooo, when do we get to see your ribbon?

 

Larry

Old Woodworking Machinery forum host

Thanks for taking us a long to a beautiful show. 

Those were great shots of the hawk. Really life like, too.

It was wonderful to see an industrial arts program so well represented. 

David Santos is a name that is familiar. 

Larry +1.

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Gene
'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton

A pic tonight guys, for some reason they did not have my ribbon laid out on my chair, I claimed it after the show! When I get home tonight I'll get a pic of it. Thanks!

Larry Buskirk said:

John,

Sooooo, when do we get to see your ribbon?

 

Larry

Old Woodworking Machinery forum host

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker
Proud Supporter of Homes For Our Troops and Wounded Warriors Project

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker
Proud Supporter of Homes For Our Troops and Wounded Warriors Project

Here ya go guys!!! The nicest ribbon I ever had!

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker
Proud Supporter of Homes For Our Troops and Wounded Warriors Project

Way to go John! Super!

So did all those turnings increase the desire to start turning? Got to get you a lathe!

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John Moody
Site Administrator


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It most certainly has John, turning is something I have been wanting to do for a couple years now in a bad way. I'll jump at that late when the time is right! It'll open up a whole new dimension to our furniture creations as well.

John Moody said:

Way to go John! Super!

So did all those turnings increase the desire to start turning? Got to get you a lathe!

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John Moody
Site Administrator


John Moody Woodworks
http://www.johnmoodywoodworks.com

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker
Proud Supporter of Homes For Our Troops and Wounded Warriors Project

John,

That's

 

Larry

Old Woodworking Machinery Forum Host

So, did you have to replace all of the buttons on your shirt?

John Morris said:

Here ya go guys!!! The nicest ribbon I ever had!

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker
Proud Supporter of Homes For Our Troops and Wounded Warriors Project

Thanks guys, yes Ron, I did!!!!! With my ever growing waist line and throw a contest winning in with it, my buttons were shooting out at light speed!

That is a pretty ribbon isn't it? You know, now that I think about it, I never did get a Second Place ribbon from them during their last show with my Cherry chair, I need to contact them and try to acquire that one for my display case that I have not built yet.

Thanks again guys.

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker
Proud Supporter of Homes For Our Troops and Wounded Warriors Project

Industrial education ?  Thank heaven it's not all gone.  So many schools have abandoned the industrial arts entirely.

There was a segmented bowl toward the end that caught my eye.

Just when I get to thinking that I've seen as many segmented bowls as I can stand, I stumbled upon yet another that I think is really cool. I like the way that one swept the eye into the black hole in the center.   If it wasn't titled "Event Horizon" it could have been.

Better build it big, I think you have a continued winner there

John Morris said:

Thanks guys, yes Ron, I did!!!!! With my ever growing waist line and throw a contest winning in with it, my buttons were shooting out at light speed!

That is a pretty ribbon isn't it? You know, now that I think about it, I never did get a Second Place ribbon from them during their last show with my Cherry chair, I need to contact them and try to acquire that one for my display case that I have not built yet.

Thanks again guys.

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker
Proud Supporter of Homes For Our Troops and Wounded Warriors Project