Tama - NZ Pounamu/greenstone - Last post for '08! - pg99 - Tiki Carving

B Benzart Member Port Saint Lucie, Florida Joined: Jan 09, 2004 Posts: 10397	B Benzart Posted posted on Fri, Oct 6, 2006 5:05 AM We should be so lucky to have such "Boring Production work". I suppose if you do enough of them you might think they were boring. As with Paipo, I have the same new found respect for you and your carvings having just "Touched" the Pounamu for the first time. I knew it was a hard material but didn't realize it was so difficult to shape into what you want. Translate that back a couple hundred years with "Primitave" tools and THOSE guys Really had a hard, tedious taskif they chose to change the face of a piece of greenstone. Of course I don't have all the correct tools but I can see how hard you work to create that beauty. Wood is like carving Butter after pounamu. So here you are creating these Beautiful "Boring" pieces of fantastic art and I say Very Well Done. HappyHappyHappy

We should be so lucky to have such "Boring Production work". I suppose if you do enough of them you might think they were boring.
As with Paipo, I have the same new found respect for you and your carvings having just "Touched" the Pounamu for the first time. I knew it was a hard material but didn't realize it was so difficult to shape into what you want. Translate that back a couple hundred years with "Primitave" tools and THOSE guys Really had a hard, tedious taskif they chose to change the face of a piece of greenstone. Of course I don't have all the correct tools but I can see how hard you work to create that beauty. Wood is like carving Butter after pounamu.
So here you are creating these Beautiful "Boring" pieces of fantastic art and I say Very Well Done.
HappyHappyHappy

Post #259338 by Benzart on Fri, Oct 6, 2006 5:05 AM