Third place in the Richmond carvers show for this maple panel.

The 2019 portfolio:

• Paisley hairpin
• Rose in maple
• Orchid corsage
• Paisley in maple
• Lily in basswood
• Mapley paisley and rest
• Foliage in cypress
• Mahogany rest
• Rococo acanthus in basswood

This project is a pair of wooden earrings. Carved from a single block of mahogany and dealt with from start to finish with hand-tools.

The brass was a stray piece of artist wire combined with some off-the-shelf clip-ons.

An unorthodox set of materials to craft a one-of-a-kind object.

Model: Ivy Zheng

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Here is a small clip illustrating the whole build process.

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