hobo and cattails [hobo nickel]

i,m back to carving and here is a hobo nickel i just finished...i got behind and plan on spending a good deal of time in carving shop and hope to get a hobo nickel carved for a future hobo nickel collector by the name of sierra in ca. soon ...the story on this carving goes back to a hobo eating what was available and many times it was cattails and onions with a little meat...hobo nickel carver billzach

 

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Wow? You carved that? That is great! When I try to tell my hands to carve or paint something artistic, I have trouble producing stick men!

Fantastic job...you have more patience to work on such small detail than I ever would.

I'm jealous.

 

Impressive Bill! How long did the carving take you?

 

And how do you re-tone the coin uniformly?

 

hobo and cattails

it took about 8 hours to carve and the tone on nickel was done by a solution i mix myself of mostly houehold items...

 

Eight hours?!?! Impressive. Do you do a drawing first and work of that, or work in another medium first to nail down the design? Having less than no skill of this type I really am amazed.

 

Nice work! Is this done on a buffalo nickel, with the buffalo profile left intact on the reverse?

 

very nice billzach, its a nice piece of modern day history

 

NICE...you always do a great job...8 hours is a long time...did you do it all in one day or take you time and do it when you had time?

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