Woodcrafters Display Timeless Items
It’s great to have a passion. When a pastime becomes a passion, the time passes and you’re not conscious of the minutes and the hours that go by. You can go for long, long stretches, unresponsive to the world, even forgetting that you have to eat. ery display was unique. This is indicative of the versatility of the medium and the creativity of the crafters. Gerri Wira, the club president, works on wood spirits. He finds pieces of bark that suggest an image. He then extracts what he sees in the wood. It is about applying the carver’s art to nature to portray caricature in human faces. Everything is exaggerated: noses are long and narrow or maybe short and flat. Eyebrows arch high in the shape of leaves. These faces become candle holders, or the nubs of canes, or pieces of art to mount on the wall. ing sections of wood. Ron Pigott crafts large vehicles and work machines, and Charlie Moerika builds bird houses. Alain Levasseur has a scroll saw with which he performs miracles. He has completed a carousal to