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Hello From NEW England!
Hi,
I found this site thru one of Roberts posts on the Letterville Bullboard…poked around a little and thought it would be fun to be a part of this sign group too.
I’m from East Canaan Connecticut…..western New England. Norfolk is to my East, Shefield is to my North, Salisbury is to my West and Kent and Cornwall are to my south….NEW England 🙂
I’ve been a wood carver since I was 9 and began my business in 1977as a full time carver. I produce relief carvings as art for peoples homes as well as signage. I’ve been involved with Lettrheads since 95 as there is no group of professional carvers to chum with….the talent out there is amazing!!!!
I’m looking foward to becomming a regular here to expand my knowledge and contribute when I can.
If you are interested in the rest of my story, you might spend a few minutes at my novice web site http://www.ctwoodcarvers.com
Warning……I am Putter Impared!!!!! I’d love to poat pics and such but I haven’t learned how yet… 🙁
One last thing, Don’t believe anything Jillbeans says about me! 😉
Thanks for having me!
Joe,
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27 Replies
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Hey Joe!
Nice to see ya!
Folks, Joe Chips is amazing.
Oops! I forgot he said not to believe me!
He is talented, smart, and charming.
He likes to talk too!
But he is quite interesting.
Maybe he will show you some pix of his
incredible carvings.
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brilliant skill you have joe!!
and welcome aboard!! 😀 😀Nik
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Hi and welcome Joe 😀
Jill, I’m taking Joe at his word, I don’t believe any of it!!! 😉
Cheers, Dewi
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Hi Joe
Glad you took the plunge and registered. I hope you find the boards of interest to you because I know loads of us will be more than interested in your work.
I know I am for sure!
Hope to see more of you and your work.If you would like your avatar picture along with your posts. Feel free to email me it and I will load it for you.
Cheers
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Joe
Staggering stuff!
Welcome aboard.
I have been drooling over the pices on your website – I too would love to see some more images of your work.
Kind regards
Alan
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Thank You!!!!! 😀
What a warm welcome!!!
I can only get you some picks in a round about way…..Bob Gilland (sorry Bob, I’m sure I mispelled your name 😳 ) made a post awhile back with pics from 2 meets. I’m in several photos and there are one or two shots of some of my little fun carvings done in maple and black walnut. They are in the pics from “Spring Fling” in GA. I’m the white haired/bearded guy with the light blue dennim shirt.The other thing I can do is to send each of you a link to a portfolio page where someone else posted pics for me. I’ll try to get to that today.
I’m working right now on a 40″ crest for the copula of a local library…griffins, ribbons, sheild, crown and some dude in his pj’s 🙂
I’m taking digital pics of the progress and when it’s done i’ll try to post something here. If the picks come out good, I’ll be writing an article on it for one of our trade journals.
Did Jill say I liked to talk?????? 😕
I told ya not to believe her!!!!!! 😀Thanks Again!
Joe
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Fair is only fair Joe; I stopped counting how many times I have butchered “saying” your last name. 😮 I just now end up saying, “You know, Joe Chisel-ski from Connecticut!” 😉
If you like this one and Rob is OK with it, Rob can just do a right click and “save as” and upload it for use as the avatar. This one was taken while you were doing one of the seminars in Mars, PA during Jillbeans big international meet, 2002.
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consider it done bob! 😉
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Thanks Bob!!
Looks ok to me Robert….Thats a much less scarry shot than a frontal 😀
How’s Kathy, Bob? (I’m pretty sure thats here name 😕 ) You two should think about a trip to the New Brunswick meet…nice vacation and it would be great to see you again!
Joe
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Kev,
That’s about 3 days work (after 47 yrs of warming up) 🙂
I have a commission to replicate it with just a family name on the ribbon and N S E W around the compass. The circle is aprox 16″ in dia. Glad you like it!Email your email addy and I’ll send you a couple more links…..newer, better stuff.
Thanks!
Joe
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Hi Joe, and welcome. Nice work.
I had a holiday over there a couple of years back. Drove around Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York State. I though that rural New England would be a nice place to live. Didn’t like Cape Cod much though.
I’ll be back one day, and am looking into a trip to Laconia Bike Week, but with my bike rather than a rental car.
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Thank You Johnchild,
My wife and I traveld a lot all over the states, BK (Before Kids) 😉 . With my kind of business, we could have settled anywhere. We chose NW Connecticut on purpose 😀 . Real old New England towns. Haven’t changed much in 250 years. The original part of my house was built in 1755 by Capt. Edmond Dunning…..he became a cook for George Washington.
If you are ever out this way again, stop by and I’ll be happy to give you the “Tour”. I have quite a few Brits in my guest book.
Joe
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wow, nice work Joe.
I imagine it would be hard to fix a typo. Have you ever mis-spelt and had to start the job again from scratch??? 😳 -
Jenny,
Thanks and yup! 😥 I did it last year on a church sign…..spelled Episcopal (sp?) 😮 wrong on a 4’x6’x2″. Now it’s a 4’x6’x1 3/4″ 😀
The only other one was a double sided directional sign with an arrow…..I’ll bet you can guess what happened 🙄 . It’s a little thinner now too.
You should see the size of the eraser I needed to fix em….. 😉
Not too bad for 27+ years…………
Joe
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Hi Joe, welcome to the site. WOW I just had a look through your web stie and was blown away…Magic looking stuff. Now you’re comfortable here…hows about spilling some dirt on silly Jilly then 😆
Lee
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Welcome joe. I’ve seen your work and its amazing. you’ll know Bill Riedell then? another awsome sign carver and artist, had the privilage of meeting him a while back at a meet here in the UK.
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Leeroy m’love…
if you want to know anything, JUST ASK.
I have had the pleasure of having both Joe Chips and Bill Riedel in my kitchen…not in the Biblical sense o’course, we were preparing for the Mars meet. We had dinner together at Good Ol’ Uncle Bob’s place, where they cook up a wicked ostrich burger. Both are great guys, both with more talent in their pinkie fingers than I have in my whole body.
And I get to see then BOTH at Dixie in 2 weeks!
Love…JILL 😳
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You know it’s much more fun when it’s gossip rather than facts Jill.
You get juicy made up bits. Far more interesting.
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Thanks guys!!!
Yes I know Bill Riedel quite well. We’ve traveled to many meets together and aside from his wealth of knowledge and skill…..that man is TIRELESS!!! When Bill and I met Jillbeans for the first time, we were on our way to a Pinhead Summit in Ohio, about an hour from Jills. He had me up early the next morning and raced to the meet which was held in a shop that was under the host’s home. We were so early that our host wasn’t even outta bed yet. 🙄
Leeroy, What Jillbeans said! 🙂 Just ask!!!!! One thing you should know however, is that in the energy department, Jill is in the same league as Bill! Tireless!!!! She moves so fast that that dirt wouldn’t stick anyway!!! LOL……just be carefull of her “bedroom” eyes 😉
Thanks Again!
Joe
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Welcome Joe!
I know Joe from the Letterville BB and Chat. I haven’t posted here in a while but I’m back!
Judy -
good to see you back too judy.. 😉
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Hey Judy!!!! 😀
I got over the Big Pond without getting my feet wet 🙂
Leeroy, I’ll get together at the Dixie meet with Judy and see if we can fabricate a whopper about Jillbeans! 🙂
Regards,
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Exxxceeellllllleeennnnt ( Rubbing hands together)… fabricate away.
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Watch it, Chips.
My Mom will be there!
I don’t care what stories folks tell about me, really!
(it only adds to my mystique)
But my mom will paddle your butt for talking about “her baby”!
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Cor Jilly…The stories I’ve heard about your MUM!!! 😮 I can guess that’s where you learn’t it all.
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Leeroy,
I just got back from the Dixie meet with Jill……it seems she is secretly taking pictures of the boy’s buns!!!!!!! I didn’t turn by back on her for 3 days 😕 …… her mum is a real sweetheart!!!
Joe… 🙂
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Is that why you never turned around, Joe?
I was so busy painting panels that I only got in 1 “butt” shot.
Oh well.
Mom had a blast and so did I. We are both plumb tuckered out tho.
As always, great to see you makin’ chips and havin’ fun.
Love…Jill 😉
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