carving tiny shit is really hard y’all

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      i think this is the first time i’ve really tried anything figural. i’m an apprentice bench jeweler, so most of what i do with hand tools is just “make this flat, make this round, put a hole here” etc.

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    This is awesome, I love random little trinkets like this. Are you planning on mounting it (idk if that’s the right term lol) to some kind of jewlery or just keeping it as a figurine?

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      i didn’t realize turquoise is so soft, it’s anywhere from 3 to 6 on the mohs scale! i was able to use exclusively hand gravers and an x-acto blade that i’ve serrated.

      the biggest struggle is the perspective, he’s got like a 1/4 turn going on and i haven’t really shown that with the nose or mouth yet. i WANNA say he’s not finished but i’m terrible about actually finishing stuff that isn’t customer work uwu