I used to carve dipper-cups for drinking out of oak burls. Yes there is amazing grain to be discovered in them, and yes, it's a grade a bitch to work around that grain while whittling them out!
One was shaped like a human breast, which the oak burl itself suggested when the grain at what became the nipple area refused to be whittled down without destroying the cup. Sometimes, a carving insists on it's own form, and there ain't nothing you can do about it but follow it's suggestion.
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One was shaped like a human breast, which the oak burl itself suggested when the grain at what became the nipple area refused to be whittled down without destroying the cup. Sometimes, a carving insists on it's own form, and there ain't nothing you can do about it but follow it's suggestion.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’