Thread: Cedar Dragonfly Dishes

They are very cute RV!

Twins! Oooo double the fun on the way!

Thanks featherwood. There's a great deal of endgrain carving. Even though I have a dedicated carving bench to do endgrain, it still came up a bit rougher than I needed. If you look carefully, you'll see that the dishes got the RV branding on the tip of the lower left wing (bottom/back end).

The two dishes are more alike than any other pair of carvings that I've done. The left/right symmetry is the best I've done so far. I'm satisfied that it just takes a heap of diligence and I am not there yet.

Can you see easily how to do a fat beetle dish with the elytra/shell wings coming off as a lid?

I like the way you do unique but functional carvings RV, I fear you won't have much time for carving when these twins arrive, good luck.

Thanks Rob. Carving something which is borderline functional is quite satisfying.
Throughout the Pacific Northwest Native cultures, small dishes, "feast dishes," are not uncommon. Usually to hold some real treat/delicacy such as the oil rendered from a greasy little marine fish called an Oolican.

After seeing the original drawing (no implication about a dish), I wondered how well I could wrap the thing around a piece of wood. As I said to featherwood, there are a couple of technical achievements for me in those dishes.