Chrysocolla Lizard

OK so, now after rendering the other Lizard too dangerous for wearing; I started another one with Daniels Indonesian Chrysocolla.

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Day 2


Spend a lot of time on it today, and man, is this material (dark blue) hard. I used up nearly 10 pins and it seems like nothing has happen when looking at the pictures.


Thanks for looking, have a great week....... Kurt

Ok so I got started with the background and was able to place one foot on the bamboo-pole. Second one will have to wait till Sunday as I got other work to do for a change until then. I'm thinking of having Lizzie's front foot holding on/ reaching into the top of the pole.



The little fella at the top right corner has kept me company for the whole week. At one time giving me a scare by passing by right under my legs as I was grinding. LOL

Also finished my mice today. Needed to be done with today so I can finally clean my fingernails and keep then clean.

The main mouse turned into a virtual mirror. By the way if you where wondering; we are looking at the final seize of my average fingernail.



That one was a little trickier as it involved a tail, this one is attempt number 8. I finally got it right after shortening all my burrs by a good three quarters of an inch, to minimize any vibration.


Thanks for looking,..... now lets get sanding Lizzy to see what I gotta change, Kurt

he biggest thanks for making this piece possible has to go to our friend Daniel from Indonesia. Simply because originally, I asked him to select some special material from Indonesia, and post pictures for me to select. He did so but I choose anything but the Chrysocolla. Only after his insistence on filling out the box with it anyway I relented and agreed. The only other time I worked with this kind of material, I already broke it during cutting the basic tail-shape of my first attempt of doing the “Squid”. The Dino-bone was the second choice, so despite knowing that it can look fantastic, I was not too interested.

Lucky me, Daniels material is absolutely nothing like the other material I had/have. This material does have several different colors, each with its own hardness, and has a few pits (top of head and right front leg) that I was not able to remove completely, but is otherwise extremely solid. Not one crack developed throughout working it and nothing at all at any time crumbled away (even at the porous areas). It held up wonderfully even though at places (like the Calla head) it is cut down to a quarter of a millimeter and hence made translucent. I could imagine someone more experienced to work that material into a cup or chalice at a thickness of less than an egg-shell.



Got lazy with taking pictures after that, so here we go to just befor the final finish.

The blue and red colors on Lizzy are so intermingled that they turn to a literal purple indoors when the ambient light is yellow (pic number 4). Picture one and 3 where taken outdoors in the shadow and picture 2 indoors with flash. As you can see, the camera is picking up a huge color range


The back is fully formed, but as the cuts are not that deep the colors blend to well, so its hard to make out the features, but there is a thick and a thin bamboo-pole, a Calla Lilly leaf rolled up on one side and stood upon by the Lizard on the other, on the leaf there is also a caterpillar (very close to the lizards toes)


I’m quite happy with it and considering to do the ultimate “Ego” thing, by signing and numbering it.


Thanks for looking, now off to my mice in the hope to have them ready for show by next weekend.

OK, now here is the final picture as I think it should be worn.






So do a lot of others here, its a nice family of pretty much equals all-round. yippie24

Thanks again for all the kind comments, and have a great week. Kurt