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Stockman Original

Your guide through the lost arts and the forgotten crafts. Brian Stockman is a master carver with more than 50 years of experience carving all mediums from wood, to stone, horn, bone, ivory, and ice. He has a particular speciality as a scrimshander (one who does scrimshaw), carrying on the ancient art popularized by New England whalers. Brian has spent a lifetime gathering knowledge of lost arts and forgotten crafts, all of which he shares with you: From flint knapping arrowheads to making backpacks from Bass tree bark (during peeling season, of course), to tapping maple trees using traditional hand tools, to carving gnomes from deer antler, scrimshawing a whale on a whale's tooth, carving a loom shuttle from cow bone, and making a fur hat from an otter pelt (complete with hand made brass buckle), and countless other skills and pieces of knowledge.

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Stockman Original

The end results of ninety-four hours of work on a magnificent sperm whale’s tooth. This tooth was almost completely solid, just a little hollow in the base as you might expect but no surprises inside, luckily. I was given free rein on this one, l feel so blessed as I have wanted to do something like this for some time now. His harpoon is made from mammoth ivory and the line is made from deer sinew. The pigment is walnut tea. The base is carved from mahogany with whale bone inlays. Have a great day!

9 months ago | [YT] | 103

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This is the last carving of 2024, done from mammoth ivory with glass cabochons. Looking forward to a busy year coming up, l appreciate all your kind support and l hope you all have a wonderful year ahead.

1 year ago | [YT] | 52

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Here’s another little thing I got done this week. I put this together for a lady who, while walking her dogs, found these antlers. I carved the buttons into square plugs and inlaid them into the board then drilled and tapped the antlers to take a 1/4x20 machine screw, that should hold a hat or two. I also made two escutcheons out of brass to receive the mounting screws. It was a five hour job. Almost forgot to mention the wood which was a lovely piece of black walnut. Thanks for checking it out and have a great weekend!

1 year ago | [YT] | 39

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I was gearing up to do some more pendants and I tripped over this darned old piece of whale’s tooth, so I just had to get it out of the way. Inside it was hiding this cute little Netsuke. It is 1 1/4” long and 1” wide. It has double-inlaid eyes of horn and took 12.5 hours to complete. Thanks for having a look.

1 year ago | [YT] | 51

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It's almost Hallowe'en!

1 year ago | [YT] | 8

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Here’s an interesting story. I recently met the owner of a very impressive collection of scrimshaw who is a new fan of my work. As we were checking out his collection, which helps me get to know his tastes, he was pulling certain items out to show me when he produced this vase. A little light went on in my memory bank.

I had to search hard to find my signature, because I had done this so long ago, but there it was.

I did this in the eighties out of mammoth ivory. What really makes this special is how it came to be.

Most folks who work with mammoth know all about de-lamination. Well, this piece was not cracked but it was de-laminated so I gave it a little whack on the small end and the core popped out, another whack and out popped this tapered piece. One more and I had a second piece. I plugged the bottom with a solid slice from the same chunk and did the same to the other one. Ended up with two vases: This one and one that I scrimmed an eagle on.

I was extremely happy to see this again and he was very surprised to find out that he had one of my earlier pieces in his collection.

Does anyone have the other one?