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Custom commissioned design - Vines

JgS Heirloom Carvings

Walking stick headpiece inlaid with silver dollar

Glow in the dark epoxy resin

Footed Canes - Pair

These "footed" canes are carved using our home- grown cedar for the canes and basswood for the feet. They feature inlaid turquoise and powdered copper bands top and bottom.

Footed Cane - Pair

Feet are basswood with inlaid turquois and copper metal at ankles.

Footed Canes - Pair

Hand grips and cane bodies are cedar and feature inlaid turquois and copper metal bands.

Footed Canes

After visiting many medical/surgical supply houses for my relative, I developed my idea of "footed" canes for the directionally challenged! They are carved from aromatic cedar and feature pointing fingers, a compass in the knuckles and male & female feet. This project earned me a place in the holiday 2011 Woodcarving Illustrated magazine in their 2011 Best Carving Design Contest and won a People's Choice award.

Woodcarving Illustrated recognition

Footed Canes

This particular pair of feet represent one male and one female version. You guess which is which!

Footed Canes

Pointing fingers with a compass in the knuckle for the directionally challenged.

Kokopeli Cane

This Chinese Tallow cane is intricately carved and woodburned. Each Kokopeli figures have been inlaid with tourquois, lapis,coral and other crushed mixed stones. The latticework is highly designed and took many hours to carve. This cane won competitions at the Texas Woodcarvers Guild shows.

Kokopeli Cane

Backside of the Chinese Tallow Kokopeli walking cane.

Oak Leaves & Acorns Cane

Everyone, male and female love the oak leaves and acorns designs. Over the years, each of my canes carved in this style and entered for judging has won competitions in the Texas Woodcarvers Guild shows.

Oak Leaves & Acorns Cane

Deeply carved Chinese Tallow cane featuring Oak Leaves & Acorns. This is finished with Golden Oak stain and it a favorite for male and female.

Oak Leaves and Acorns

Oak Leaves & Acorns Cane

Daisy Cane

Chinese Tallow cane with daises. Cherry stain gives it the red coloration.

Daisy Cane

Aspen Pine Tree Staff

This staff won in the Texas Woodcarvers Guild competition shows.

Aspen Pine Tree Staff

This Aspen staff was carved for my husband and is 6 ft. tall. It features a removable Woodsman headpiece carved from a very hard Cherry Burl and inlaid with turquoise. When the headpiece is removed, it exposes a camera mount and turns the staff into a monopod for photography. The Aspen staff is intricately carved with latticework, pine tree features and a rattlesnake on the bottom.

Aspen Pine Tree Staff

Aspen Pine Tree Staff

Aspen Pine Tree Staff

Aspen Butterfly Staff

This Aspen walking staff is my own. The headpiece unscrews and turns the staff into a camera monopod, using a rubber or spike footed tip. Intricately carved with butterflies and dragonflies, many different techniques were applied to finish each feature.

Aspen Butterfly Staff

Aspen Butterfly Staff

Aspen Butterfly Staff

Butterfly features the application of iridescent powdered micas & foils.

Aspen Butterfly Staff

This staff is approximately 5 ft. tall.

Custom 5ft. Aspen Staff

This 5 ft. Aspen Staff was a custom design and features "milestone" medallion markers along a career path, as well as a prediction of golfing upon retirement.

Snakes in Diamond Willow

Snakes n Diamond Willow

Snakes in Diamond Willow

This Diamond Willow walking stick is approx. 4.5 ft. tall. All from the one piece of willow, the two snakes (Mexican Milk Snake & New Mexican Milk Snake) are carved in and out of the stick using the "diamonds" of the willow.

Texas Rat Snake/Mouse Walking Stick

Walking stick & snake were carved from one very large Chinese Tallow tree trunk. Mouse and cheese are carved from basswood.

Texas Rat Snake/Mouse Walking Stick

Texas Rat Snake/Mouse Walking Stick

Texas Rat Snake/Mouse Walking Stick

Pinecone w/ Spirals Cane

This Hackberry cane is intricately carved with a pinecone or pineapple pattern and features spirals of turquoise and bone beads. This cane has won awards at the Texas Woodcarvers Guild shows.

Amer. Indian w/Eagle Cane

The Eagle Head cane is carved from Chinese Tallow with a basswood headpiece. The body is carved and inlaid with American Indian designs.

Amer. Indian symbols & Eagle Head

3 Canes - Examples

Showing pinecone or pineapple pattern, rounded strapping and flattened strapping techniques for latticework.

Desert Rose Cane

This Chinese Tallow cane is deep relief carved with Desert Rose and vines. The pattern is similar to many found on leather belts.

Dogwood and Cardinal Cane

This custom Chinese Tallow cane was created with favorite tree--Dogwood-- and favorite bird--Cardinal.

Chinese Tallow Cane

Example of latticework strapping with stitches.

Vines on Hackberry Cane

Cane w/ multi inlays

This Hackberry walking cane has multiple carving and inlay techniques, including powdered metals, crushed and powdered stones, abalone shell, etc.

Vines on Hackberry Cane

This cane was carved from Hackberry and features latticework strapping, pine cone pattern and delicate vines, leaves and flowers.

Vines on Hackberry Cane

Cane w/ Lg.Tree

Walking cane from Hackberry and features a large tree trunk with falling leaves. Headpiece has an inlaid silver dollar.

Pansy and Daffodil Cane

Images showing both sides.

Pansy & Daffodil Cane

This Chinese Tallow cane is carved with purple Pansies on one side and yellow Daffodils on the other.

Pansy & Daffodil Cane

Custom Birds Cane

This Chinese Tallow cane was a custom project and features Cardinals and Hummingbird. It has also been modified with a more ergonomic handle and stabilizing foot.

Custom Birds Cane

Custom Birds Cane

Custom Birds Cane

Chinese Tallow Cane

Custom designed Chinese Tallow Cane. "Reasons, Seasons, Lifetimes" friendship cane for a dear man.

Chinese Tallow "Friendships" Cane

Chinese Tallow "Friendships" Cane

A Fish Story Cane

This Chinese Tallow cane was created for my brother.

Custom Chinese Tallow Cane

Custom Pump Jack & Duck Hunting cane. This custom design was created for a gentleman who owns an oil company, loves his wife and enjoys duck hunting.

Custom Pump Jack & Duck Hunting Cane

Custom Pump Jack Cane

Custom Pump Jack & Duck Hunting Cane

Custom Pump Jack & Duck Hunting Cane

Custom Pump Jack & Duck Hunting Cane

Custom Pump Jack & Duck Hunting Cane

Custom Pump Jack & Duck Hunting Cane

Custom Pump Jack & Duck Hunting Cane

Custom Pump Jack & Duck Hunting Cane

Hackberry Cane - "The Wall"

Custom designed Hackberry Cane depicting Pink Floyd's music video "The Wall".

Hackberry Cane - "The Wall"

Hackberry Cane - "The Wall"

Custom designed Hackberry Cane depicting Pink Floyd's music video "The Wall". This strip of hammered metal with bolts is carved from the wood and made to look like metal.

Sampler Cane

This cane was carved to show how the same "pattern" applied to a cane might be carved in different ways.

Ergonomic Cane Handle

This shows an example of a cane with an ergonomic handle (right or left handed) and including an interchangeable standard handle.

Lightning Bolt Cane

A Lichtenberg Woodburner delivering 15,000 volts of electricity was used to burn the channels in this Chinese Tallow cane. The channels were then filled with a clear resin impregnated with phosphorescent powder so that it glows in the dark.

Woodsman Staff

Basswood headpiece and Zebra wood staff with large cane hiking tip.

Iguana on Cedar Cane

This Iguana in Cedar Cane features inlaid turquoise & mixed crushed stones for the features. Unlike Hackberry & Chinese Tallow, Cedar is very soft and does not hold outward relief carvings well, but does lend itself to inlays.

JgS Carving station

Basswood Walking Stick

Oak Leaves & Acorns

Basswood Walking Stick

Basswood Walking Stick

Basswood Walking Stick

Fractal wood burning

Basswood Walking Stick

Basswood Walking Stick

Basswood Walking Stick

Esmerelda the Marionette

Esmerelda the Marionette

After visiting a wonderful shop in Venice, I felt the need to begin working on a troop of marionettes.

Esmerelda

Basswood Pumpkin Patch

Custom design created for a favorite niece. Basswood figures mounted on a natural edge mesquite base.

Cigar Store Indian

Cigar Store Indian

Beading on his moccasins are made from tiny beads my father-in-law used in the Boy Scouts in the 1950's.

Cigar Store Indian

Vintage beads.

Spherical Heads

This is a portion of my collection of basswood, cedar and mahogany spherical heads. With a background in dentistry, a full set of teeth is important!

She's Wound Tight

Basswood spherical head. This piece won an award at the Texas Woodcarvers Guild show.

She's Wound Tight

Spherical head

She's Wound Tight

Spherical head. Definitely needs to loosen that bun!

Just Whistle a Tune

Spherical head carved from Butternut.

Just a Frog

My husband asked me to carve him a frog from some leftover basswood. The frog and log are one piece.

Just a Frog

Just a Frog

Narwhal

Custom design for my niece the whale-lover! Carved from Marblewood.

Gourd art - Desert Scene

This large gourd has elements of carving, wood burning, Lichtenberg fractal burning & stains. Embellished with raffia & deer antler.

Gourd art - Desert Scene

Gourds are one of my latest interests.

Life In the Sun

Gourd art depicting life in the desert. Images are carved into this thick skin gourd that still has it's seeds rattling around inside. Very large!

Life in the Sun

Gourd art

Life in the Sun

Gourd art

Turquoise Butterfly

This large thick shell gourd features a Turquoise Butterfly amidst lots of Lichtenberg burning.

Gourd art - Dancers & The Band

Gourd art - Dancers & The Band

Dancers (top row) and band members (bottom row) were created with wood burning. Rim embellishment is rope & deer antler inlaid with turquoise.

Gourd art - Cowboy Boots

Using thick skin gourds grown in California, deep relief carving can be accomplished without perforating the gourd.

Gourd art - Cowboy Boots

Pine Needle Basketry

Pine Needle Basketry is one of my latest interests. the pine needles for these pieces were purchased from Florida and California.

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