Post #251099 by Paipo on Sun, Aug 27, 2006 7:42 PM

Thanks hewey, I like to think of myself as a modern day savage too. I think that one has a cool slightly cartoonish/disney style vibe to it.
Benz, I got lucky with the paint - I live in a very small town, and went to the only toy shop where I got some model paint. Matt black and white isn't so rare, but I wanted a really specific shade of red, and as you can see they had it. The painting was a learning curve as I don't use brushes much, but I think I'll do it again. As for the sig, writing on stone is way harder than carving it so it's a matter of working around the tool shapes for an easy solution.
TravelingJones, there will be plenty more stone-in-stone pieces to come. Watch this space!

I thought I'd post a pic of what can happen when things go wrong. I broke one of my strict rules today because of impatience, so I ended up breaking a piece I'd spent about 1 1/2 hours on and ruining a $30 diamond burr. If the piece I'd been working on wasn't so deep, the 2 inches of bent whirling steel going at 30,00 rpm would've smashed my fingers so I actually got off lightly. I immediately went and got another stone and remade the piece to the same stage in half the time using a much better method. This will be a stone shot vessel with a relief carving mounted on it, similar to the classic fogcutter mugs.