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Miles artwork
In general, I not only create the art, but find and cut the raw materials,, make and assembled the beads. Design and cast all metalwork, including pendant caps and clasps. Not always, because I need a low end bread and butter product I can sell for less money. I specialize in Alaska materials since this is where I live. Link to my bio Bio. Left is a picture of my selling space at the Tucson gem fossil show I have been selling at for over 20 years. My mother lives in Tucson so began showing up at gem show time in Jan each year. I acquire some products to utilize in my art at the show. PS working on some videos for Utube I can have links to here. Right now just wildlife and my cat, but working on some 'how to.' |
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Is a link to videos I created showing wildlife footage i took, my home, about me, some how to stuff for working ivory and wood, reading from my books and keep adding new footage
Is a link to videos I created showing wildlife footage i took, my home, about me, some how to stuff for working ivory and wood, reading from my books and keep adding new footage
metal castingMost caps you see on pendants are metal I carved in wax and then lost wax cast custom to this piece. I do all my own work and do not send any out nor have any employees. I used to hand saw metals, each one of a kind hand draw and cut. I wanted to explore 3-D so explored the casting. I discovered I can carve an original, make a rubber mould for the wax and am then able to cast a hundred copies. Tough each cast tends to be unique because I mix my own metals and the metal mix is different for each cast. Likewise the cast wax figures can get combined, or added to a seperate wax cap and then cast.
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Custom woodI specialize in Alaska wood that has no commercial market, which makes it unique in the world. Much of Alaska wood is beautiful but not hard, so needs stabilizing to take a polish and be hard. I tried many methods and settled on a product called cactus juice, which is as thin as water and stays this way till cooked. I often use dye to bring out the wood pattern more. I make pendants belt buckles bolo ties, knife sheaths etc from this wood
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Stone workI specialize in Alaska rocks I find cut polish myself. I live subsistence so spend a lot of my time on the river. I support this by looking for unique stones along 1,000 miles of river system. Some orugh rock I trade for with natives, and some rocks I Aquire at the Tucson gem show each year when I go to also sell. I used to buy the cut rocks but they can be very expensive and not quite what I had in mind! I cut rocks leaving a natural outline and so it is reversible. This helps the material be unique to me.
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