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Last year I was invited to showcase some of my work along with other local artists
at the Chattanooga Jewish Community Center.
The requested theme was “Platters”.
These two medallions are 20” in diameter solid crotch walnut.
My friend Alex has a Woodmizer saw mill and I get a lot of my wood from him.
These were two of best pieces from
a big tree he milled. They were air dried for about two years.
The blanks were turned on my Powermatic 3520-A.
I used a couple of forstner bits to drill most of the openings
and then sawed the remaining areas with my new “old Delta-Millwalkee” scroll saw.
My coping saw is retired to a nail on the wall.
The finish is Mahoney’s Walnut Oil.
-- VillageCarver,Chattanooga
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oldwoodman
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#1 posted 801 days ago
Beautiful work!!!!!!!!
And that is a great Scripture passage as well.
lightweightladylefty
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#2 posted 801 days ago
Dan,
Your work is incredibly beautiful. What is the Hebrew inscription? Is it also Deuteronomy 6:4?
Thanks for posting.
L/W
-- Jesus is the ONLY reason for ANY season.
childress
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#3 posted 801 days ago
That’s really great.
I would love to hang that on my wall!
-- Childress Woodworks
levan
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#4 posted 801 days ago
Wonderful work. Thanks for sharing. That crotch grain must surely be difficult to carve.
-- Lynn "If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right". Henry Ford
BigTiny
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#5 posted 801 days ago
Hi Dan.
Wonderful theme for some wonderful wood. Mazel tov from a goy who knows the Old Testament was derived from the Torah.
-- The nicer the nice, the higher the price!
Dennis Zongker
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#6 posted 800 days ago
WOW!! Super Craftsmanship. I really love the design! Welcome to Lumberjocks!
-- Dennis Zongker
Chips
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#7 posted 800 days ago
Love the work. Where do you get your patterns?
-- Make every day the best day of your life. Chips, Mississippi
mpounders
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#8 posted 800 days ago
Beautiful work….lettering and carving are great and the pierced work really sets it off.
-- Mike P., Arkansas, http://mpounders1.blogspot.com
Dan Katz
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#9 posted 800 days ago
Hello Everyone,
Thank you.
The Hebrew scripture is from Deut and is the same as the english medallion.
The crotch walnut was suprisingly easy to carve and I have several more slabs left.
I also have several wide boards from the same tree. One board is 24”x 8’.
The pattern for the one in english is my own design. The other one came from
Franz Sales Meyer’s-Handbook of Ornament-Dover Publishing.
-- VillageCarver,Chattanooga
stefang
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#10 posted 799 days ago
I love all the work you did on this Dan and particularly the combination scroll sawed and carved parts. I hope you post more of your work soon.
-- Mike, American in Norway
Colin
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#11 posted 799 days ago
Really, really nice, I would love to have that plaque on my wall, well done.
-- Colin, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. "Every craftsman was once an amateur"
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