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'Night Moves' ~ Wooden spoon carved in Ebony wood with GITD powder. (Reposted by request).

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'The Great Race' ~ Wooden spoon carved in wild Apple wood.

(sorry for the repost... this one and the next were requested).

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'Toothpick Cutting Board' ~ Cutting board/cheese board comprised of wooden toothpicks. The toothpicks were methodically 'stacked', filled with pigmented resin and cut into 'slabs'.

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'A Couple... of Pears' ~ Sculpted in polymer clay, colored with various pigments.

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'Color Matched' ~ Panel created using dyed wooden matchsticks.

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'Panther Shotgun' ~ A few years back one of my co-workers asked me if I would repair his son's shotgun that had somehow been broken in half. I drilled some holes between the two pieces and epoxied in some steel rods. The repair was quite obvious and so I colored the whole gun stock black then carved a panther face (not my design) through so you could see the original wood color. I also added the walnut shoulder piece for a bit of visual interest.

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'Matchstick Decoy' ~ Teal duck decoy carved from a block of 12,000 burnt wooden matchsticks. Sorry for the photo quality... this is the only photo I can find of it.

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'Scrabble Panel' ~ Panel comprised of Scrabble game tiles. Quote from Lao Tzu. If I could do it over... I'd organize the tiles better. The 'background' tiles are just Scrabble tiles turned over.

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All four of these pieces were made from an old computer desk. You know... the cheap MDF ones with black laminate.

'Blue Bill' ~ Reminded me of 'Mr Bill' from the old Saturday Night Live episodes. Carved and pigmented.

'Recircled' ~ I just used a carving but to cut through the black laminate and colored with pigments. A sort of double panel panel.

'Seg-man-ted' ~ Same desk... just cut out the shapes to crudely emulate a face. Held together with metal rods connecting each segment. Dyes and gold paint.

'Blast' ~ This panel was first shot several times with a 12 gauge shotgun. Then the blasted areas were carved around. I dropped some dye on each of the buckshot and textured the rest of the panel.

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'B.O.T.E.' (Bark On Top Edge) ~ Carved in Serviceberry wood.

'Candle Boats' ~ Sapele and Lacewood.

'Napkin Boats' ~ Various woods.

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'Panther' ~ Walking cane.... shaft is comprised of burnt, wooden matchsticks laminated together. The panther head is carved in Madagascar Rosewood, with amber eyes, found teeth and silver wire inlay for whiskers. Ebony transition collar. This was a long while back and I can't remember how many matchsticks it took.

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'Diatom' ~ Diatoms are microscopic algae that are responsible for 50% of the oxygen we breath. Commercial use of 'diatomite' is used in dynamite and to help stabilize nitroglycerin. I think they just look cool. This one is 21" x 13 1/2" and is carved in Sapele wood.

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'Matchbox Mosaic' ~ 450 painted match box 'drawers'. Acrylic.

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'Owl Pendants' ~ (Regular Owl and Nite Owl) Various woods.

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'Mask' carved in Basswood and covered in crushed glass.

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'TYTO' (The Owl Girl) ~ Carved from a 4" x 4" post of some wood that I have forgotten the name of.

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'Eight-To-Go' ~ When I posted this on another site a few years back a couple of folk were offended by it.... thinking I was promoting harm to cats. But what I explained was that this goofy carving was actually an 'ode' to the only cat I have ever 'owned'.

'Aslan' was a grey striped kitten that would climb your britches leg or the curtains. A wild natured cat but kids could awkwardly pick him up and he would not scratch them.

As he grew older he would always follow me into the woods when I went hiking. He'd wonder off on his own and show back up a day or so later. He was really good at hunting. He would stalk a bird and leap to pull it out of the air. He'd leave mice on the front porch for us.

Once he had a big cut on his back and the vet told us that an owl or a hawk had tried to pick him up. With those 9 stitches in his back he fell off the third floor balcony onto concrete... and just walked it off. So many stories I could tell about that cat.

One day I saw a Labrador Retriever running across the field with something in his mouth. I ran out and headed him off and it turned out to be Aslan. He had been up in the woods and got himself shot. I'd like to think it was a case of 'mistaken identity' but never found out.

We had a Christmas ornament made with his photo and I carved this piece out of a pine 4" x 4" post... as a remembrance of that crazy cat.

'Cat Incense Burner' was carved in English pearwood and had malachite cabochons for eyes.

'Wildcat' was a marquetry panel composed of several different species of wood veneer.