If you cut burl or branch birds eye maple at 45 degrees from the normal grain you get a hard to carve but interesting pattern.

OF course if you see faces or other organic forms you might be crazy.

some violins I am finishing


I use linseed oil shellacs and other treatments to get a holografic depth that appears to go nearly a centimeter deep.


The cartoons I did in 1995 but still work today (although I added the Poirot text just today.)