2 Years In The Making!! Poly is Finally Finished!!

[Nic]

any other crazy works of art......

 

[Bobears]

Many props man, that's unbelievable.

 

[Oddball]

any other crazy works of art......

It's getting late. I'll shoot a few other pieces and post them tomorrow or over the weekend.

 

[PhullTank57]

Niiice work!!

 

[AttackFish]

I found a bunch of fragmented ivory near Clallam Bay on the Strait of Juan De Fuca.

Ah.
I was just asking about Mukilteo as there have been reports of mammoth bones there.

 

[Nic]

It's getting late. I'll shoot a few other pieces and post them tomorrow or over the weekend.

 

[zerelli]

W o w

I am literally awestruck...can you tell me what you use to do the carving? Do you cheat and dremel-cut out a rough shape or hand carve it all?

 

[Oddball]

W o w

I am literally awestruck...can you tell me what you use to do the carving? Do you cheat and dremel-cut out a rough shape or hand carve it all?

I use a 1-horse Foredom gem arbor with diamond dental bits to do the rough shaping. The scales/skin features are hand carved with japanese fine ivory chisels. Then, back to the Foredom arbor for final smoothing and polishing. Polishing is 6 stages starting with Linde-A and ending with 15,000 grit cerium oxide (pulverized sapphire).

 

[Peanut_Power]

I need me one of them as a Crenicichla!! ROCKIN MAN! Makes me even more selfconscious about the wood burning I gives ya...lol

 

[djdlemma]

Oh man! That is NICE!!! I am impressed! Such detail!!! Great work!