Santa Carvings

[TheLazyC]

This is more about photography than carving. I built my new lightbox tonight to take photos of my Pens but thought I would practice with my wife's Santa collection. A friend of ours carves these each year. I wish I had started collecting them from the begining but I am fortuate enough to have the last 11 years worth. And for a hobby, he makes, by my pretty accurate calculations about $18k gross each year just on this size. He also makes some larger ones that stand approx 3' tall, these are only 3" tall.

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[SGalley]

Nice pictures. What kind of camera? BTW, those carvings are cool. He should do the same carving for other figures, sort of like hummels.....just a thought

 

[Trent Mason]

Very nice carvings. :eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap Haven't tried carving yet, but I hope to one day. How are the pens coming along? :dontknow:

 

[TheLazyC]

Nice pictures. What kind of camera? BTW, those carvings are cool. He should do the same carving for other figures, sort of like hummels.....just a thought

I just bought my second Nikon D2X. I wanted to have duplicates of everything in my camera bag. I get so many calls to do wedding photography that I thought I would give it a try this year. I already have 5 weddings booked for 2010.

 

[TheLazyC]

Very nice carvings. :eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap Haven't tried carving yet, but I hope to one day. How are the pens coming along? :dontknow:

I ordered enough kits to turn 11 big cigar pens, 5 of one kind and 6 of another. We will see, hopefully it will be better that the last 4 attempts.

 

[SGalley]

I just bought my second Nikon D2X.

Very nice camera.....beats my rebel, but the Rebel meets my needs. Very easy to use. I need to build one of the tripods that was posted earlier though. That was a very cool project. BTW, tell your friend for me, that I think he should carve a "Planet of the Apes" guy using the same hat as Santa.

 

[TheLazyC]

Very nice camera.....beats my rebel, but the Rebel meets my needs. Very easy to use. I need to build one of the tripods that was posted earlier though. That was a very cool project. BTW, tell your friend for me, that I think he should carve a "Planet of the Apes" guy using the same hat as Santa.

I wish I had the talent to make one of those tripods, I made the lightbox out of PVC, pretty simple, it only took about 10 minutes start to finish.

 

[MrAudio815]

Very Nice Photograpy~!... Got any pic's of the Photo Box you made?

And those are nice Carvings~!

 

[TheLazyC]

Very Nice Photograpy~!... Got any pic's of the Photo Box you made?

And those are nice Carvings~!

I did not take any photos of the lightbox, but I plan to set it back up this weekend and practice on some more items. I will upload new photos then.

 

[Glennbear]

Cool carvings and cool photos, have you invited your carver friend to join our merry band of woodworkers ? :wsmile:

 

[TheLazyC]

Cool carvings and cool photos, have you invited your carver friend to join our merry band of woodworkers ? :wsmile:

Nope, he is not very computer/internet savy. He bought a computer from us a long time ago and he is on dial up so I don't think he does much online.

 

[RandyJ]

Great photographs, Ken. Looks like your light box works like a charm...

Now let's see some of those pens:gar-Bi.