Alright, I've been telling you guys about my woodcarvings and I promised to show some more. Here's a few photos from the woodcarving show a few months ago (it's the 19th or 20th show I've participated in since 1992):

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<div align="center">This one isn&#39;t wood. It&#39;s actually a deer antler.</div>


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<div align="center">This shows one of my pliers. It&#39;s a "pair of pliers". And, yes, they are working, moving pliers Like all of my carvings, they were carved the way you see them. There&#39;s no carving separate pieces then gluing them together, NO, they&#39;re all done from a single piece of wood/material. The piece on the right has a ring in a three-sided cage, two half-links and a ball-in-a-cage.

And yes, every little segment is loose and free to move around.</div>


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<div align="center">Lousy photo but cool pieces (my flash batteries had died). A few of these ones are actually my Dad&#39;s work. Same goes for the following photo:</div>


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<div align="center">This hanging mass is actually a puzzle. It consists of 10 separate sticks, each about a foot long. They fit together by friction. So, while there&#39;s technically only 10 carvings there, there&#39;s actually 60 or more different "things", or "elements", carved in the various pieces. That&#39;s my Dad in the background. (Sorry, it&#39;s a bit out of focus.)</div>


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<div align="center">This is the reverse side of the piece. This is actually the first - but far from the last - carving that earned me a 1st place ribbon in judging.</div>


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<div align="center">I really like this new (I got the idea from a picture of some one else&#39;s work in a book I&#39;ve got) thing I did here. It&#39;s two smaller cages - each having two loose balls - in a larger cage. These two smaller cages share the main bars. I&#39;ll show another way to make ball-in-a-cage-in-a-cage - in which no bars are shared - when I take more photos. When you do them so that no bars are shared then you get a loose cage in the main cage. Of course, the balls in those cages are loose as well.

Partially off the right side of that photo is a 2-barred spiral that has a loose rod inside. That&#39;s also something new I did, my own idea.</div>


When I get off of my lazy butt and take some more photos I&#39;ll post them. &#39;Till then, I hope you enjoy.

There&#39;s also a few more HERE