My good friend Donald Mertz has a new post up on his Blog http://woodbeecarver.com/ titled the "Fundamentalists" which I think you ought to check out. He's a terrific carver and being an ex-skypilot he knows from whereof he speaks about such things! I mentioned to him that I too had carved a fire-breather quite a few years back so after retrieving ithe pictures from my photo files I thought I would pass them along. -
I did this carving for the wife of a local Baptist preacher. I never heard back whether he liked it or not .... I sure hope so as I certainly wouldn't want a Baptist "Fatwah" floating around out there for someone to try and cash in on. You can't really see it in the photos but laying on the little shelf of the pulpit is a copy of "Cap'n Billy's Wizbag". I don't know whether he's laying into them because he found the book in the church cloakroom or maybe, just maybe, it belongs to him and he likes to thumb through it between sermons when the wife is at the Ladies Aid meeting. No doubt he could pick up a few good sermon topics from those pages. Whatever, he's a neat little character, I got paid and the check didn't bounce so all is right with the world.
A few more photos in the gallery and your comments are always welcome.
