some of my work

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some of my work

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I'll post here some carvings I did or WIPs

since is Halloween season I will start with Baltic Amber Skull
this was my 1st ever skull carving

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... it's quite small




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Too cool. Nice work. I got the tools but ive never started yet since im so busy digging holes for stuff to do LOL. I could supply several cutters for years.
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Wow OS, that's really quite impressive, especially for your first one. Thanks so much for showing it to us, and keep up the good work. I'll be looking forward to seeing your next one. :)
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thanks :) I did it some time ago for one of my projects .. which I'll probably never finish lol
I started couple cool projects but don't have too much time for carvings and jewelry ..plus I need more tools and equipment
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who likes fairy tales :?:

I didn't plan to carve anything specific but it turned out to Fairy Wing :lol:
nothing special but cool for art-nouveau style project




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I love the ones like that with the ghostly floating purple, and I see you've got green and even what looks like a bit of red in there, so I think it's a wonderful opal. Will you set it, keep it, or sell it? :)
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it's for sale because I'm not into making art-nouveau jewelry even though I like the style - but only too look at :lol:
it is low-medium grade stone with classic LR blue-purple fire & some extra light aqua blue-greens --- no reds
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here something I did over year ago :roll:

Natural Baltic Amber Carving - Egyptian Goddess Taweret

Taweret (Tȝ-wrt) - tawaret/tauret/taouris > 'great one' - was very important goddess in ancient Egypt.
She has body of female hippo with crocodile skin on the back and lioness paws
Her title was the 'Lady of Heaven' and she was known from early dynastic times (3000bc)
today she is not well known or popular like Isis or Hathor.

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She is quite small ;)

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Neat. I will say the Youtube video has it as 100% opal in the description? Liked. Somehwhere I have a little lizard carved out of yellow opal. I admire the skill to make little well polished things. I kinda had my feeling hurt a few years ago and also lost a few pieces of hand picked rough that was basically spit at. But I assumed it was a me problem lost in translation, lost in the mail. Never did wear that piece as i consider it cursed. Not that I blame the artist at all. Hes got mad skills. I just wanted my skills of finding rough to play with appreciated. Oh well this too shall pass.
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You're right, I've never heard of her, although it sounds like she's akin to the 'Queen of Heaven' deities of various cultures, and maybe even the same deity in some places. Whether the names are interchangeable or not, I must say you did an excellent job on it, OS. How long did it take you to carve it, and was it difficult to polish? Thanks so much for sharing that with us. I didn't know you worked in amber too, so hopefully we'll be seeing more amber pieces from you in addition to your opals. :)
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