[Jewelry making - Article 00746] - Re: [Orchid] The End of The Hand Carver

[Lisa Bialac-Jehle]

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    Usually, when customers, (stores mostly), look at my carvings in
    fossil tusk, they only want to know: 

    1. What is that? (fossilized walrus tusk)
    2. DId I carve it myself? (uh huh)
    3. Is that a nude? (yep)

    In exasperation,with a straight face, I have told some persistent
    questioners who have trouble believing that I didn't buy ready made
    carvings somewhere, that actually, I have a crew of little people in
    Guatamala cutting and carving the pieces. I say that they do it with
    paleolithic flint knives, and they work in caves by candlelight. I
    tell the querent that it is an ancient tradition. Amazing how many
    would rather believe that. 

    So far, in twenty years, none of them have cared how I did it, or any
    of the details, just if they found it aesthetically pleasing, and if
    they thought they could sell it. Oddly enough, most gallery owners
    end up keeping my carved pieces for themselves. I wonder what they
    would say if I showed the steps tossed around some tools and chucked
    little chips of tusk about? Maybe I will try it...lol. 

    Lisa,(One of my greyhounds, Robert Redford, has taken to escaping.
    He races down the hill to my elderly disabled neighbor's, where the
    dog bursts in the house and just sits there, spending the hour with
    the neighbor petting him. The neighbor loves it, but its a pain to go
    hunt the silly hound down. The rest of the time the dog spends
    upside down, asleep on our couch.) Topanga, CA USA

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