Thread: Wanted: someone to carve giant mushrooms

l can't speak for everybody here but we get a few people asking can we make something for them if they would just give a ball park figure

clear or painted changes the cost

I paid $800 and $400 for the big and small (=less big) mushrooms, retail, in Tokyo.
Hopefully I will get something with a similarly enchanting line to them, and be able to charge a similar retail price to my own customers.
Otherwise, I could 'rent or borrow' them from the creator for photo shoots to appear in m magazine articles and festivals, if the carver is optimistic about publicity. I have no idea how that works for you guys, Im completly new to this, so feel free to gently educate and humor me.
I don't need them painted, as I will treat them the traditonal Japanese way, with 'Kakishibu'
(a natural persimmon-juice wood preservative)
Cecilia

Hi Cecilia, I'm not too far from you and am creating carved gardens of sorts. Would be very happy to talk to you about creating/supplying mushrooms. Is the timber specific? Mostly working in Aussie hardwoods at the moment. Was also keen to have something in sustainable living expo but just missed the submission boat so maybe this is the reason.

Hi again, some examples of small work.

Reckon Tealady might be interested in making suitable pottery for you

Originally Posted by Cecilia Macaula

I paid $800 and $400 for the big and small (=less big) mushrooms, retail, in Tokyo.
Hopefully I will get something with a similarly enchanting line to them, and be able to charge a similar retail price to my own customers.
Otherwise, I could 'rent or borrow' them from the creator for photo shoots to appear in m magazine articles and festivals, if the carver is optimistic about publicity. I have no idea how that works for you guys, Im completly new to this, so feel free to gently educate and humor me.
I don't need them painted, as I will treat them the traditonal Japanese way, with 'Kakishibu'
(a natural persimmon-juice wood preservative)
Cecilia

thanks for the quick reply that's the information that make it easier for us to understand and the price sounds fair as well


l had a few pieces a few years ago at a garden expo ( medal dragons and birds )
something that took 50 hrs to make people were willing pay 20$

Originally Posted by echnidna

Reckon Tealady might be interested in making suitable pottery for you

Dats me. Although most of my stuff is indoor, I do use my cups mostly on the deck in summer.

hi cicilia
just check out the blog very interenting, love the tree
where about do you teach permaculture? do you know of southen cross permaculture (rick and naomi)?

Originally Posted by tea lady

Dats me. Although most of my stuff is indoor, I do use my cups mostly on the deck in summer.

are mugs for outside and cups inside

Love those mushrooms!

Donna

Welcome to the sight Cecilia!

A packet of good ideas amongst your photos , Keep in touch.

Beautiful mushrooms.

I was curious about the persimmon juice finish. It is made from fermenting unripe persimmons. You can see some pictures of things treated with it here. http://www.kakishibui.com/gallery.html Scroll down to see the wood items. I'd like to see some before and after treatment photos, but have not found much info.

That Kakishibui looks really interesting.

Hello Cecelia

If you haven't found a mushroom carver, you could look at this site. I saw the link on another post on this forum somewhere.
http://www.brunosart.com/index.htm

It looks like he mainly does terracotta but there seems to be some nice wooden things emerging from tree stumps. Just guessing, but from the look of the things he already makes, he'd probably find your giant mushrooms very appealing.

Good Luck