The Geppetto Woodcarvers club provides a friendly and family-social environment, while sharing the skill of woodcarving. Drop by one of the following meetings if you already know how to wood carve or want to learn how.
Contact Email: secretarytreasurer@geppettowoodcarvers.org
Each Wednesday (Open Carving) 10AM until 4PM Woodcraft Store, located at 4420 Emerson Avenue, Parkersburg, WV 26104
Monthly 2nd & 4th Tuesday (Open Carving) 6PM until 8PM Blennerhassett Museum
Monthly (Club Meeting) – 2nd Saturday 10AM until 1PM Woodcraft Store, including business items, woodcarving project or a special topic and instruction.
Special Event
CARVING ON THE PORCH
May 10, 2025 between 10:00AM and 3:00PM.
Our Carving on the Porch event is annually scheduled at the local Woodcraft store, 4420 Emerson Avenue, Parkersburg, WV 26104. Carvers gather along the covered porch gracing the entire front of store and make chips all afternoon. This is a friendly, informal event, where carvers are available to chat and their carvings are available to view.
Please stop by for a visit and to see some wonderful wood carvings!
At the end of March, Geppetto members led a woodcarving class for children aged 8-14 at a local Amish school. Pete Yakob prepared “Introduction to Woodcarving” manuals for 26 students. Steve Miracle cut a pumpkin and an apple roughout for each of the students. Pat Wentzel, Pete Yakob, Marcia Holschuh, and Guy Tessum were carving instructors. Our local Woodcraft store assisted with a good price for carving knives.
Students had a 1.5 hour class based on the Introduction to Woodcarving manual, learning about wood grain, sharpening, and the basic wood cuts. The students were also fitted with their own carving gloves and thumb guards. The next day, we had another 1.5 hour class on actual carving, with 4 carvers assisting. Everyone enjoyed the event and the opportunity to start some young woodcarvers!
The 2024 Carving Quilt was on display in Parkersburg during April.
Preparations are underway for the 2025 Carving Quilt, whose subject is “critters”.
Life Member, Jerry Yancey, had a birthday, and our Woodcraft Wednesday group was able to help him celebrate!
Geppetto member, Joseph Auch achieved the rank of Eagle Scout and had a Court of Honor in April.
Guy Tessum carved an Eagle Cane, with a full set of Scout Rank Badges to be presented to Joseph from Geppetto Woodcarvers in recognition of his achievement.
Our woodcarvers are working on a variety of personal projects, and the club is truly blessed to have such productive carvers. Follows an assortment of photos of carvings, in work…
Steve Miracle has been carving a forest full of animals. The first one was the deer, shown here. Antlers are made of metal.
Guy Tessum has been working on a series of Santa ornaments, carved from Spanish Cedar, for a couple months. Maybe they’ll be finished soon!
Dale Lott, one of our Life Members, has been bringing in a series of walking sticks that he has carved over the years. Here’s a beautiful one…
Follows another cane by Dale…
The following small mask is carved by Dale, from cedar.
Lois Dye is seen, here, working on a wooden spoon.
Pat Wentzel was busy carving at an unidentified animal. Club members kept guessing at the species. Is this a giraffe? An armadillo? A tapir? So far, it’s a mystery!
The club’s Eagle Head Cane project continues to grow. Several more of our members have taken basswood blocks and patterns to carve heads. Other members continue to provide sticks for the canes.
Master Boot Carver, Larry Mills, brought a Cowboy Boot carving class to the April 2025 monthly meeting. Boot roughouts were available for Geppetto members to carve on, and we had an enjoyable class. Members are still putting finishing touches on their boots.
(Instructor Larry Mills is a Life Member and is pictured in the middle of the Above photo.)
