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Post #100375 by Johnny Dollar on Thu, Jul 8, 2004 6:33 AM

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On 2004-07-07 20:28, kingslod wrote:

looks kind of like this bookend i found:

GECKO has the same one too. he sez it's machine carved. as you say, probably a automatic "wood in one side, tiki out the other side" machine...

I have one of those as well...hard to believe a machine could carve this. They must be cleaned-up by hand after being machined.

interesting... compare and

you can see how the overall design was worked out, but the longer one must have been from a longer blank, so they added the "XX' design... i must agree with kingslod's theory...

although now comparing them side by side, they are slightly different designs... sigh...


[ Edited by: Johnny Dollar on 2004-07-08 06:35 ]