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Carve like an Egyptian

Project by miles125 posted 758 days ago 346 views 0 times favorited 11 comments Add to Favorites Watch
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Had a chunk of 12/4 mahogany and some spare time on my hands. I left it out on my back deck for a year till it got the silvery color i liked. Not one of my greatest projects but somehow it meant something very important at the time. I figure somebody 200 years from now will run across this and say “what the hell was this guy thinkin?”.

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""


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TomFran

2515 posts in 893 days


posted 758 days ago

Definitely has the look of an artifact. Are you sure you didn’t find this thing in an Egyptian pyramid?

-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28

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Douglas Bordner

3427 posts in 963 days


posted 758 days ago

Great! Do the hieroglyphs have an specific meaning. I know people can buy a cartouche that is supposed to translate to the equivalent if their name…

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

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MsDebbieP

14181 posts in 1060 days


posted 758 days ago

it’s a wonderful conversation piece.
I’d love to have something like this “hidden” in my gardens for passersby to find.

I, too, wondered how the message translated.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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miles125

1442 posts in 904 days


posted 758 days ago

I’m not real sure, but it would be a real letdown to discover it says something like….”Ninety days, same as cash”. Lol

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

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Dekker

145 posts in 779 days


posted 757 days ago

I can only identify three heiroglyphs in the image, but Miles, do you know the meaning of the cartouche you carved?

-- Dekker - http://www.WoodworkDetails.com/Blog/MNagy/

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Thos. Angle

4013 posts in 861 days


posted 757 days ago

I didn’t know mahogany would turn that silver color. Neat project.

-- Thos. Angle

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CharlieM1958

7675 posts in 1117 days


posted 757 days ago

I think it reads “Power tools are for the birds.”

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

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mot

4904 posts in 935 days


posted 757 days ago

Pretty cool, nonetheless!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

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cajunpen

5968 posts in 965 days


posted 757 days ago

I like it! Very interesting – just make up a wild story about finding it in an Egyptian tomb and people will believe it :-)).

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

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Todd A. Clippinger

5655 posts in 998 days


posted 757 days ago

I think this is a pretty neat piece. It has to be a great conversation starter.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

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Dick, & Barb Cain

7045 posts in 1198 days


posted 721 days ago

Very unique!

This project just popped up in the shuffle, & I’m glad it did. At first look, I thought it was made of stone.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

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