Thread: Carving,

This doesn't quite qualify for me as a finer thing in life but more so for my clients.
Some of you may know I am a wood carver. Here is a project that has eaten up 4 months of my life.
I was commissioned to carve two different size mouldings for some custom made Mahogany doors for a home on Park Ave. NY.
One strip was 3/4 inch wide and took 16 leaves per foot. The total length was 684 ft long which ended up getting approx. 10,984 leaves carved on it.
The second strip being 3/8 " took roughly 33 leaves per foot and being 501 ft long ate up 16,533 leaves.
I made a special vise to hold the strips of mldg. and aluminum templates to facilitate the transfer of patterns.
Here are a few shots showing what I did.
The two strips combine to make the moulding but I wasn't responsible for making the white paper design that links them together.
All for some door trim. Must be nice!

This is really neat. One of the things I like most about SRP is people sharing their projects-during the project and then finished product.

Thanks. Besides my Avatar ( Greenman) here are a few other pieces I have carved.

The kitchen shot I carved the brackets under the island unit as well as the large trees arching over the ref/freezer in the background.
I guess some of these qualify as 'finer things' . The lion is one of two for a mantle.

very nice. do you still have your sanity after carving 27 1/2 thousand leaves?

I say all of it qualifies as finer things.

Sanity around here is a relative thing. It depends on what the basis of comparison might be.
Thanks guys.

Beautiful work. My great grandfather was a cabinetmaker and I still have a few of his pieces. You are an amazing craftsman!

As always Excellent Work, I'm never disappointed when I click on your threads. The lion is stunning, easily the best representation of a lion head I've ever seen, looks like it may move at any second.

Thanks again guys. I'm sure you may have seen these but keeping with the theme of the site I can't for get these I recently restored and carved the Ivory for the scales.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

very nice. do you still have your sanity after carving 27 1/2 thousand leaves?

I think a lack of sanity would be required to carve 27 1/2 thousand leaves Really great work.

I worked with a guy years ago who during lunch and coffee breaks would widdle away. The end result would be a bird, which you'd swear was real. It's nice to see people with such great talent.

John