Authentic Nautical Accessories, and Custom Furnishings
I play around with carving elements on the computer before I begin carving. But in this case, I wanted to play with the elements in the shop. I had run across some mid-19th-century sailors' dioramas online and wanted to experiment further with how they brought elements together. The best way to do that was more …
Dilettantes are interesting. They have the time to work on elaborate details and research endlessly. They can concentrate resources, buy materials, and put details into products I wouldn't and couldn't—they'd break—but they certainly are lovely.Dilletantes produce one item in several months of work. I literally can't afford that. The old saw about time being money …
I once imagined setting up a shop on a waterfront and selling the carvings that I created. Then, reality intervened when I considered the actual costs versus the take minus the overhead. It was a wonderful dream, but keeping a shop and trying to carve in volume stopped being a dream I might actually do …
The ship in the background is the USS Constitution. The nearby building is the maintenance facility where much of the new materials for the Constitution's rebuild were fabricated. Tucked away on the far back of the second floor was my friend Bill Brommell's workshop. Around that time, I was newly unemployed by the Department of …
what's the story behind the diorama? That's the thing about this type of presentation: there is a story.
Figureheads get lots of attention in maritime museum exhibits. There are even museum collections of figureheads lost at sea. Often, the names of the ships they graced are unknown. If we knew, we could reconstruct a travelogue of all the ports they'd seen. But many ships lacked figureheads. The old figure went overboard in a …
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