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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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rush rush rush..i will never learn. again nice grammar check. that was supposed to be "bug" not "nug" in the last post. dummy shaz.
and here ya go BozMan, this is my latest carving i have been working on the last 2 weeks. it will eventually be the world, looking like a globe with continents carved on to it being supported by the fingertips of one hand. double meaning for this one. we have the whole world at our fingetips is one meaning, and the other meaning is just when you think you have the whole world at your fingertips, remember, it ain't your world. "HE" has the whole world in his hands an i ain't even a grain of sawdust.
from this point on comes the detail work, tedious and i have to be in the right mindset or can literally whittle myself away to nothing. as i dusted off they mantle pieces, i was proud to think of the creative Shenoha spirit. the carving next to my unfinished one is an old man Bohemian man with pointed hat with beard and mustach. it is a carving my Great Grandpa Shenoha made in Bohemia before coming to America. it is a hard wood carving that is an actual walnut cracker with a hinge holding 2 carved pieces together. if you tilt the head back and you can see the whole inside of mouth and teeth too that is concave and the size for a walnut to sit on and then push the head down and smash. pretty damn cool. he also was a diamond carver and jeweler and my mom wears a crazy cool platinum and diamond ring he made back at the turn of the 20th century. my favorite wood carving of his was made on a peach pit. one side is a regular peach pit. the other side is detail you would not believe of angels and flowers worked onto the surface of the pit utilizing the pit's small holes into the composition. that is crazy creative and he was a bit mad. eccentric. glad i did not get those genes. lol.
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