Carver Wins National Contest
By Eau claire Leader-Telegram Staff12/19/2008
Robert Giede of Menomonie is best known for making intricate jewelry, but his recent work with a chain saw and white pine stump won a national contest held by Browning Arms.
The contest invited people to design Browning's Buckmark logo and send in a photo of the design.
Entries included photos of tattoos, carved pumpkins, cakes and even an aerial photo of a corn maze with a Buckmark logo.
The photos were posted on the company's Web site, and visitors voted on their favorites.
Giede's stump was picked as one of the favorites out of about 900 submissions.
He won a Browning rifle.
More importantly, for his Robert Giede Designs jewelry business, his name and work will be featured in national outdoor magazines.
"The winner won their choice of a new rifle or shotgun, but for me the PR was more important," he said.
He made his design out of a stump that was left after a storm blew over the tree at his cabin on the Chippewa River, upriver from Flater's Resort.