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Dear Friends in Carving -

Welcome to the November/December 2000 issue of the Woodc@rver Online Magazine.

This issue is chock-a-block with all kinds of interesting articles, including:

• The Front Page features carvings by Jan Oegma and Bill Russell
• The WOM Dragon Carving Contest winners are announced!
• Jan Oegema's chip carved Hoechst Chest
• Cathy Krumrei reviews the Endura Engraving System
• "Ol' Don" Burgdorf's pattern is a Little Drummer Boy
• Pete LeClair's friend Abel pays us a visit.
• Kathleen Menendez's regular Pyrography series continues
• Robert Mace spends An Evening With Ian Norbury
• Vic Hamburger reports on Shellac - The Versatile Finish
• Loren Woodard's Notes From the Net features comments on roughing out, honing oils, finishing exterior signs, and signing your carvings.
  

W3E News - based upon feedback from participants, the W3E Friendship Cane program has been modified to reduce the group size to 8 carvers. This means the commitment has been reduced to carving 8 segments in 8 months. It is expected this change will encourage more people to participate, and reduce the number of folks that "get behind" in their carving commitment. For more details visit the W3E Cane Exchange page HERE.

Finally, this issue marks the beginning of my second year as the owner/editor/publisher/whatever of this publication. It has been, to say the least, a very interesting year. As Bill Judt found before me, WOM requires a lot more hours than you would at first expect. Those hours come out of other activities, including carving! On the other hand, the support and positive response WOM continues to receive from contributors and readers is just the thing to perk you up at the end of a long editing session.

So - to the contributors and readers - a BIG thanks for that ongoing support. Please continue to share WOM with your friends. Suggest they visit carverscompanion.com and join the fun!

Carve On!

Matt Kelley, Editor