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I like this guy in spite of myself. His entire store is just him auctioning off wood bark carvings for like $20, every day forever. *17,000* feedback. And yeah, he pre-lists them before he’s even finished carving I guess? Not sure where the efficiency in that is, but then I don’t have 17 thousand feedback.
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I dont see how he can carve wood that quickly. He sells a lot of items.
And yeah, no idea why he would start an auction with no photos.
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Could be be trying to use up his free monthly listing allotment before the freebies expire?
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Utterly fascinating. He’s doing quite well for himself.
A good artist could definitely pump out a couple of those similar style carvings a day.
Having said that, the hands holding those carvings are DEFINITELY not the hands of an artisan pumping out a handful of coin and wood carvings a day. Lol!
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Or a technique we learned in art school is to use a 3-d pantograpgh or even a hand made CNC machine. [see this link for a homemade model]. They even be bought in the mid hundreds for a mfg. model. Dremel also makes one.
You lock in the “model” / “Proto-type” on the left and then lock in a block of your chosen material on the right. Then it sort of a tracing process. You follow the contours on the left using a needle like pointer and the grinding wheel on the left removes the negative material on the raw block on the right raw piece.
You can give varying charateristics / individualize the one on the right by skipping around with the pointer on the left. Sort of not following the proto type exactly each time.
Can be used for wood, plaster, resign, stone, etc. There are even hobby type kits that come with a couple of proto forms and a block of material used for the duplicate.
In this case since the wood has such a varying texture and shape, that adds to the individual variance [character] of each.
All this guy needs is just one of each original to use as his left guide and uses it over and over.
In art school we had one in the sculpture dept. and students used it to make dozens of small pieces that in turn they attached to larger sculpture pieces. Wood workers use them to duplicate corner molding pieces for door fluted casing and medallions they use on fireplace mantels, etc
But who knows, maybe he sits there and holds each raw piece of wood in one hand and a knife in the other, sitting on a low stool amidst a pile of wood chips on the floor and cranks them out every 5 minutes or use a CNC duplicator. Hhmmm… what do you think, I know what I would be doing.
For an “OPerations Management” view point Think High Demand requires high output = automation = profit. I seem to gravitate toward the high speed duplication process. But who knows, maybe he has tons of YouTube videos showing him patiently hand carving every one. It’s possible.
MIke at MDC Galleries and Fine Art
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