Marquetry Class in Vicenza, Italy

The trip to Vicenza, Italy was just great! The art directors just wouldn't let me stop teaching, so we put in several 14 hr days of intensive marquetry lessons! ... Along with the excellent after hour parties and marvelous 7 course Italian dinners!! I met some really talented minds over there, excellent artists - tops in their fields. Anyway, everyone walked away with a couple of nice marquetry pictures to impress their divisions. Thanks again Sandy!    ... Dave Bilger
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Sorry, no pictures of me (I'm camera shy)
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Sandy Nordenhold... 
Thanks for the 
wonderful opportunity!		 class02.jpg
Russ Bolin 
My Driver and best friend.		 class03.jpg
Wonderful stay in 
Garmish, Deutchland		 class04.jpg
Inspirational sites!
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Castles abound everywhere!		 class06.jpg
The 16.5 grade 
down to Innsbruck, Austria. 
Wild Autoban...!		 class07.jpg
Through the Dolamites 
and vineyards 
in Northern Italy.		 class08.jpg
Classroom 
in Vicenza, Italy 
14 hrs per day!
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Industrious 
Europen Arts and Crafts
Directors.		 class10.jpg
We had a great time, 
and even got 
a taste of Marquetry.		 class11.jpg
Thanks to Mike 
for a great 
classroom atmosphere!		 class12.jpg
Picture was scraped 
to a perfect surface 
with a razor blade!
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World Class 
Sculptor, Don Ledbetter 
working on the details.
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Everyone worked 
really hard . . . 
Brigitte even worked 
through lunch periods.
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Internationally 
Acclaimed Photographer
Wolfgang Peitzsch
showing off his picture.
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The hard work 
really paid off ... 
and I made 
some great friends!
 

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