Dragon Scale Frame

[Baer Charlton]

11x14 opening, 2-1/8" high, 2-3/8" width, 1-5/32 under lip 2,387 hand-cut
scales, glued, ironed and hammered into place. 43 hours before finish was started.

Hour 10

36 (not counting cutting out scales in front of the TV for three nights....)

Detail of cresting

Time to start cutting again... only a few left

6 more to go . . .

why, yes I am taking orders.... $3800 retail.

 

[RParrish]

Baer your are insane!!!!!!!!!!! Great idea!

 

[stcstc]

baer


that is stunning

waaaay to much work for me, would of lobbed it in the bin after the first couple of hrs

 

[wvframer]

Baer, if you are going to make 6 more of these, you may end up insane. Or at least cross-eyed. Wow. A beautiful thing.

 

[evartpat]

Great frame....!!

That should keep you busy...for a little while!

 

[Jeff Rodier]

Incredible frame Baer. You did the artwork justice and vice versa.

 

[Rob Markoff]

If this frame is a bonus for a higher level of donation to the book project, a photo of this frame might have bumped a few donations to a higher category.....

 

[Bron]

Baer,

I have a LOT of empathy, having just carved about 40 feet of cross grain fluting, but I can not imagine counting every one of the flutes.

Looking good!

Hammered, hide glue hammered veneer?

 

[Baer Charlton]

Hammered? Of course I'm hammered.... I've been working for at lea. . . . .

Oh . . . the veneer.. ummm yes.

But I'm using the cold glue, and then heating it into place, then the hammer.
For the little pieces it works better.

Now we will see what the white gas and fine ground rouge will yield on the veneer ....


Rob, if you had read the first update....... OK, so it wasn't quite the same..... but more "leathery"....

 

[Framar]

What a depth our industry has sunk to: Baer is working for scale now.

 

[Ylva]

LOL Mar!

Baer; absolutely stunning (yeah yeah...you too).