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acreativeitch — Close Up: My Walking Companion
Published: 2012-01-15 05:35:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 763; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 9
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Just a closer view of my cane. The scales were burned in using three different size hand shaped burning tools and a propane tank, approximatly 18 hours just on the scales.Related content
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Thank you for the look see, I'm currently finishing another cane. This one will be called "Poisonous" due to the multi-colored tree frogs that adorn it. While not exact replicas they will represent Dart frogs of the Amazon and Asian rain forest. Another week of work yet.
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Muchas gracias. I found your gallery to filled with some wonderful abstract works.
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I smoke some awesome weed.
Still have most of my hair
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Wish I could get awesome weed unfortunately it will be 2020 before Florida is force to legalize. So I have to rely on the blackmarket and that's always a grabbag. Wishing I would have moved back to So Call when I got out of the Army in 80. But I do ok and at 62 still got all my hair. I was joking about having lost it.
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I got out in the wonderful year of 69 after doing 4stright what a wonderful life to be dropped into.
I was young and dumber that a frog 🐸 that thought he was a prince 👑 waiting to be kissed. My DI woke my sorry ass up to the real world 🌎 what a shit hole to grow up in. Boot camp stole me from me
I don’t regret it probably saved me from a life of crime. If I had a do over I’d do it again.
Too bad you were a doggy. I will now and forever call you brother. We have both been there and back again.
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Thanks for having a look, glad you like it. Working on another one that will have 7 rain forest tree frogs climbing a vine wound around the cane. Still have a bit to do before finishing but hope to post the final work in a month or so.
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A paramedic friend of mine had a cane with such decoration. Also, a Voudoun priest of my acquaintance. Is this cane similarly inspired?
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This cane was designed using several reference photos of African vipers and what you see is what I got. Actually this cane was my second being a close copy of my first. The difference being that the first cane was carved from a branch of an old oak tree that had rested on a farmers barbed wire fence and over the years the branch had been twisted around the wire and grown into the wood. When I first saw that branch it had an abnormal growth pattern caused by the intertwining of the barbed wire and looked like a snake with one large head and two bodies. Due to rot caused by the rusting wire I was forced to remove one of the "bodies" and the wire which left me with the ability to carve a snake that had the bark of the oak still attached and that was the skin of the snake.
Unfortunately that can was stolen and so I made me a new one from a single piece of red oak and had to form the "skin" by burning the scales into the cane. Truthfully, this second cane was an almost exact copy of that first one even having the same mushroom for a handle top.
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Thank you. I'm in the process of trying to complete my third cane. Unfortunately I am no where near a seasoned carver so I have a massive amount of time already involved with this project (236 hours so far.) and more for completion, but it it getting there. To be honest the time includes setting up and restoring all my tools as I work out of a small shed and not a workshop so about a third of the time I have in is just taking tools out and putting them away again but it's figured into the overall time spent on the project.
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That is an amazing piece of art. You have much patience and considerable talent sir!
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4 the joy of your comment
While my drawing is a way to make a little cash from time to time my carving is solely an endeavor of love. The time I spend on any given carving far surpasses any equitable funds I would feel acceptable for the time involved. I am currently attempting to finish another cane but have possibly another 45-60 hours prior to finish and I already have approximately 260 hours into it. Gotta love what you do.
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Thanks much. Your own arsenal of talents is quite varied, and very interesting.
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I'm glad I came back to look at the carving that you mentioned. This is fantastic!
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Ya, the tips were made from lag bolts in three sizes, I contemplating just painting the scales on but really wanted some texture on the piece. I love some of the art I see on your walls around your Studio, real nice work, likewise very cool.
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Thanks much 
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