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Lester Pinter

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Everything the Society’s own records say of Lester Pinter — the offices held, the standings conferred, and the awards won — gathered on one page. Where the records are silent, so is this one.

This is the Society’s own record of Lester Pinter. A biography: Fellowship Entry, 2019 →

Photographs: Lester Pinter — Western saddlery & tack →

Branch

Hamilton · member since 2008

Certification

Associate of the CSCL 2018
Fellow of the CSCL 2019

Named an Associate in 2018 and a Fellow in 2019, he served the Society on its Workshops committee from 2019 to 2022, and his work has won Craftsman and Salon Ribbons and the Best General Member award. Born in Budapest, Hungary, he spent his youth there before emigrating to Winnipeg with his parents. Boy Scouts first put leatherwork in his hands, and his college training in dental technology — fine tools for fine dental appliances — carried over into fine carving and tooling, and later into casting the silver conchos he made for his own saddle. He moved his wife and three children to Calgary to open his own business, then chose to live out of town on a ranch in the foothills, with goats and horses. At the Fellowship judging in Hamilton before the 2019 Annual he was asked for four pieces and brought a suitcase of more than ten — a fully rigged and decorated Western saddle, a set of longhorns with decorated mounts, a vest, chaps, spurs and straps, belts, purses and clutch wallets, and a stool seat — and let the Fellows choose among them; he scored 94.5%, his pieces mostly in Western floral carving and stamping. His work spans braiding, whipmaking, box construction, lacing, engraving, toolmaking, lost-wax casting and bone and antler carving. Earlier, he entered a wallet for the Hamilton branch in the 2012 Weston Trophy competition, where the judges found the adaptation of a manufactured interior interesting, some irregularity in the lacing, and carving that “shows fine detailed work”; Mississauga took the trophy that year, averaging 80.4 per cent to Hamilton's 72.8. The Society prints his name two other ways, both kept where they are printed: “Leslie Pinter” on the 2014 ribbon lists, and “Lester Pinder” in the Spring 2019 report of his Fellowship.

From Spring 2020, page 4; Lester Pinter — his Fellowship entry, submitted by Lauch Harrison FCSCL, 2020; and Weston Trophy 2012 — Judges’ Comments, page 1.

Served the Society as

Workshops 2019–2022
2014 Annual Demonstrator 2014

Awards

Best General Member Piece 2010–2014
Craftsman Ribbon 2010–2024
Salon Ribbon 2010–2014

Demonstrations given

Simple Western Florals 2014
2014 Annual (Hamilton)
From 64th Annual Convention Weekend, Liuna Gardens, Stoney Creek, May 2–4, 2014 — registration flyer (Hamilton Leather Guild).
Western Floral Carving (Friday night demonstration) 2014
64th Annual
From Spring 2014, page 4.
Braiding — a mystery braid bracelet (workshop, held in Norland: the Norland Public Library in the report as Lauch Harrison and Jimmy Wilkes signed it, the Norland School Hall Community Centre in the same report as printed in the 2020–21 Annual reports) 2019
CSCL Workshop, Norland, October 2019
From 70-71th Annual Meeting Reports 2021, page 8; and Workshop report 2021, page 1.

Where this comes from

This name in the index of people →