Thread: The French Love of A Mouton Rouge (by moutonrouge)

appearance after polishing; several technical errors (bl xxx dy difficult to think of everything down to the last detail and integrate as a whole - those guys / carvers were really good)

This one turn out the best so far. the only problem was the MOP that turn out to be of rather poor quality - it kept chipping and flaking - but I managed to get something out of it

Very nice symmetry in your layout. It is quite a bit harder than one might expect.
It turned out very nice.
I’m impressed again.

I just found this thread. I am totally in awe of the skill and the "sticktoitiveness" required for learning to do such fine work.Thank you for raising the bar, and making it possible to learn such techniques as you used.
May you have a delightful Holiday Season!
Respectfully
~Richard

Work in progress - camel bone I bleached previously. I'll do a second round of bleaching after carving's finished

I really appreciate this thread.

Thank you gents.

Someone has some pretty mad skills!

Moutonrouge you are an artiste. I can’t imagine the time, patience and skill needed to create those scales regardless of the material. MOP has to be one of the most difficult media to carve. And you demonstrated an amazing level of creativity and precision. I am in awe!

Thank you but, the truth being told, it's not a big deal, only a fairly long trial and error path to follow. I thought about the same admiring various collection (I'm getting the inspiration from) and envying those willing to invest financially and buy such beauties. So, I gave it a try, without knowing anything about carving, and another and so on.
Anyhow, rainy day with all outdoors duties postponed for the next week-end, so I finished the scales, only some sanding and polishing left. I'll ornate them with some silver shield inlays.