Announcing Leatherworker.net's first ever carving contest (sort of)

[ClayB]

Announcing Leatherworker.net's first ever carving contest (sort of)

The subject of this contest will be an oak leaf. You can use any pattern you like, your own, or anyone else's, and carve it anyway you desire. Coloring is optional, but if you choose to color it, we would like to have a picture of it uncolored as well.

You can enter the contest as many times as you like, as long as each entry is a different pattern, or carved in a different way. For example, one carved traditionally, and another carved inverted. For each entry, your name will be thrown into a hat for prize drawings, but you can only win one time (sorry, but that's the way it goes)

It's not going to be a competition where entries are judged against each other, but there will be prize drawings for the entrants. The reason it's going to be done this way is to encourage as many people as we can to participate, no matter your skill level. You don't have to feel intimidated in any way. By seeing how much participation we get in this contest, we can get a feel for how we should conduct future contests.

Send pictures or scans of your entries to contest entries.

Contest will close on December 21st, 2007. At that time, all the entries will be posted here on leatherworker.net for all to see. We hope you will all have fun with this.

Drawing for prizes will be held on or before December 30, 2007.

Prizes will be courtesy of Jim Linnell, Tandy Leather Factory.

Number of prizes will be determined by how many entries are recieved.

Any questions, comments or suggestions can be emailed to ClayB . If you have any complaints, take a number, have a seat, and help yourself to the doughnuts. Somebody might get back to you eventually.

[Jordan]

very cool idea, sounds like it can be a regular item, maybe quarterly. any sugar free ones available?LOL Jordan

Edited December 1, 2007 by Jordan

[robert]

Too cool! My compliments to Clay and all the people that came up with this idea. I hope lots of folks will play.

I am headed to the kitchen table to come up with a pattern, then to the bench to get started!

[rharris]

Sounds like a good idea. Will like to see all the different variations of carving. Any stipulation on the size of the oak leaf?

Russ

[ClayB]

Any size, any pattern, any tooling style. This one is pretty open. We just want your participation and to see what you come up with.

[Regis]

Bump!

Got my layout almost finalized and will begin carving this afternoon. Who will tell, in the end, how many they carved/tooled vs what they submit. [lol]

Clay,

Do you want a before/after even if it is just one color dye & then antique?

[ClayB]

Regis,

I would like pictures of all the entries without color so we can see the tooling. Another picture with color is optional.

Jordan,

All the doughnuts by the complaint box are sugar free, that's where I put the ones my dog licked the frosting off.

[Rayban]

Clay, can the entry be a finished project?

Good idea by the way...good for the forum, and good for us!!

[ClayB]

Rayban,

A finished project is fine. If you could though, could you try and get a close up of just one leaf from it too?

I am really glad that so many of you are showing an interest in this already. I am getting excited to see what you all come up with.

[abn]

Clay, thanks for coordinating this contest and a special thanks to Jim for providing prizes. The idea of drawing for prizes is brilliant. I remember when we were discussing leatherwork competitions this past spring, the biggest sticking point was who would judge the entrants and how. What a great idea to reward contest participants with a prize drawing!

I'm looking forward to seeing the entries!

Best, -Alex