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Show This is Now..... peach wood with a pen set firmly attached. A new addition addi-tion also is the mounting on a five or six inch rock. Mrs. Pimpell and Ruth Ann spent time making various chokers to display the Snukkapawnus Snukka-pawnus carving. Some are strung on black or natural goat skin lace with wooden beads, others are strung on "tiger tail" with liquid silver and a variety of beads. They also just received some liquid gold that they will be working with. Mr. Pimpell has also done beautiful wood carvings from pieces of Aspen timber. Years ago he had wood carving classes but for health reasons has been concentrating mostly on his clay work. Mr. and Mrs. Pimpell have lived in Moab since 1963. Mr. Pimpell worked as head of the print shop for Texasgulf until open heart surgery in 1971 forced him to be placed on long term disability a year later. Displayed Locally Mr. Pimpel's work is displayed dis-played in local motels, restaurants, restau-rants, gift shops and grocery stores along with brochures and maps which direct people to the Pimpell residence. Also publicity recently received re-ceived in a national magazine has resulted in many mail orders. Mr. Pimpell also travels to Green River once a week to replenish dealers there and goes around Moab about twice a week. He is very happy with the flow of business and timing between his production and selling runs smoothly together. togeth-er. Usually by the end of summer he has sold out most of his supply. ' Mr. Pimpell also stated that many of his customers also include employees from the Cane Creek Mine. "My many friends from Texasgulf are mindful of my heart condition and they often bring me clay, wood and other material from the Canyonlands area so that I can create new pieces," he said. The old wood he uses comes from old privies, smoke houses and barns. Mr. Pimpell told of some wood given to him by a friend that was from Leadville, Colorado, that came from a building dating back to 1873. Mrs. Pimpell is also quite an artist herself working mainly with decoupage, drawings or photographs onto wooden plaques. |