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Whittled Whimsey #6
Signed and dated PR Drumm, 2004
Maple (Old table leg)
30" x 2" max.dia.
Exhibited on World Wide Web, http://www.whittledwhimseys.com
Carved with pocketknife from an old Maple table leg,
Whittled Whimsey #6 has a working lock literally at the head and
hasp at other end, which is also a head. Both the lock and the
hasp are noses on their heads. In between was a lot of interesting
carving with nothing better to do.
This lock design utilizes the bolts and nuts that
came with the table leg. It is a good lock. This head is chain
linked to rotating collar and four-bar cage, which has three other
cages rotating inside, with a four-pointed object in the last cage,
four cages total. That is chain-linked to another collar rotating
around a caged turnbuckle, which in turn is linked to a winged
bird-shape. That is linked to the final piece, a tapering whimsical
figure with caged legs, bouncy breasts, and nose, which swings
out on pivot hinges to become the hasp. That is five whittled pieces
from the 30" table leg, still one-piece, chain-linked. |
