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[2010-07-17 10:49:39 +0000 UTC]
"savagewerx"
(New Zealand)
# Statistics
Favourites: 36; Deviations: 110; Watchers: 233
Watching: 13; Pageviews: 19934; Comments Made: 317; Friends: 13
# Interests
Tools of the Trade: handsOther Interests: Maori and Pacific arts,horses,general outdoors,jewllery making
# About me
Current Residence: Kaikoura,New ZealandFavourite style of art: Carving
Shell of choice: paua
Favourite cartoon character: homer
# Comments
Comments: 73
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thank you, much appreciatedπ
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Your work has been featured here :
Feature Friday : Jewellery Β
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You have some fantastic pieces, very inspirational work
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if you are ever interested in selling some of your work let me know
marco
villavi.marco@gmail.com
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You have beautiful and inspirational artwork. Please grace us with more 
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thank you,havnt done a lot in the last few months due to renovations,will get back into it again soon ,cheers
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Amazing carvings. Do you sell your work anywhere?
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thank you,now and again i'll sell a piece,but as this is a hobby for me,i dont get a great deal of time to carve due to other work commitments etc,early-mid next year will free a bit of time up for me,and will have moved into our new place,where i can set up a decent workshop,(as at the moment i carve with very limited tools in limited space)hopefully then i can put a few out there for anyone interested in buying
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Awesome! I'd be interested
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Wow! brilliant carving. Looking forward to more of your work.
thanks for the fav!
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cheers
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You know, I Think I'll just watch you instead of dropping your entire gallery into My Favourites. Awesome job!
Would I be intruding to ask how you carve these?
I try, but it takes so long! [link]
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thanx,i started using needle files and old hacksaw blades id ground into different chisel points(and any other tools i could sneak out of dads toolbox and modify)now i use mainly needle files,gravers and an electric rotary tool with various bits,especially with jade which is hard and needs industial diamond bits to work,as for technique,its pretty much the same as wood carving
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LOVE your work! Wish we had awesome pendants like that in South Africa. Keep it up.
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Wow I'm glad I found your page! 
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thank you for your art
Toku toa, he toa rangatira
My bravery is inherited from the chief who were my forebears
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Proud to be a New Zealander!! Thrilled that Maori Crafts are leaking into the world scene, and that the culture is becoming more internationally noticed, like ~lycoris-moon29!
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Your work is amazing and I know it takes talent to do carvings like that. I appreciate what you do since I enjoy a bone pendant that I was given by a friend (bought, not made), and I urge you to continue with the work
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hi all,im fairly new to this site and still learning how it all works,but id like to say a big thanks for all the kind words and appreciation of my form of art as much as i appreciate seeing all the different forms,styles and amazing talent here,to get a DD for a piece of my work was quite unexpected for me,and am more than happy to share my art and future art, as well as viewing and appreciated the art everybody else posts up aswell,thanks
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hi! thank you so much for the 
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g'day cowan! gorgeous carvings you have there, it's nice to see them on deviantArt
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I feel lame but I just learned of the Maori last week and I just have to say your carvings are beautiful.
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Beautiful carving! It's awesome to see traditional Maori art where the significance of the figures is understood. So often I see Maori iconology used in "Tribal" designs here on DA, without any indication that the artist understands, or is even aware of, their origin. The way you combine traditional carving with certain unique elements (such as combining the bone and jade pieces) is wonderful!
Congrats on the DD, you definitely deserve it!
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thank you
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Your carvings are incredible, I love the intricate detail in them. Absolutely beautiful.
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thanks for the suggestion,it was quite a nice and unexpected suprise to hop on board one night and find somany people commenting and liking my atwork,cheers
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I guess your art really deserves attention, especially cause it is not kind of art which takes a few hours of drawing on a tablet. They are real things what you can grab,what has traditions looking way back longer then most of the people could imagine. Also I think why these things worth much, 'coz if U screw up sthing during the making of it, it is not enough just to push a ctrl+z.
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