Post #299530 by Tipua on Mon, Apr 16, 2007 4:22 AM

Aloha all!

I have been thinking a lot of trying out some harder stone for a while - not to take anything away from soapstone. It's a great material and it's been growing on me steadily for the past few months now - but looking at Paipo's work in beach pebbles has inspired me to try something similar (I am in no way delusional that my work could even come close to Paipo's but I thought I'd like to give it a go).
So when a workmate handed me a stone he found and asked if I could do anything with it, I thought I'd give it a shot...

I know this looks rather similar to my easter egg, but I thought I'd go with something I know for my first "hard carve".

I have no idea as to what kind of stone it is. All I know is it's some kind of river pebble and it's HARD! Well harder than I'm used to. It took about twenty times as long as good ol' soapstone, but I guess it will last twenty times as long. If not more...

It's a nice stone all right. Dark with large streaks of a browny-orange.
I don't really want to give it away now, but my plan is to give it back to my workmate. I hope he likes it (especially since I ruined one of my diamond burrs on it. I guess it wasn't a very good burr... But still!)
:)