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this is what I finished yesterday.

The other day, one of our regular customers asked us if we could make turtles out of Yakougai.

He said

“he bought a turtle bone necklace in Okinawa but he lost it somehow…“

So he wants to have it again but out of Yakougai(=famous shell from Okinawa) for this time.

he brought us a picture to the shop some days later.

It was a traditional design from Hawaii “Honu” which means turtles.

The picture was like this. (sorry for shit drawing!)

　

he said that the design and size are all on me like I can do whatever I like as long as I make the turtles.

So, after some days later,

I drew some sketches and decided making it not too big like 40mm in height.

But I wanted thickness so much for the design as thicker as possible.

To find thicker shell is always problem and there wasn’t an exception for this time either.

it took me days and days till I came across a good piece for the design.

Anyway,,

I finally got started making it soon after I found it.

So, I carved like waves inside of the turtles instead of making holes like the original. Because I didn’t want a big change from the original design but I also wanted making it differently.

And

There was another important thing that customer wants neither a hole for string on the carving nor hanging from the neck. Well, hanging doesn’t look good, of course.

So,,, what I did was

Made a bead from the same shell and used it for the strings which come through from the both side of the under arms.

I left the gap between the body and arms as narrow as possible for just in case of loosing the strings.

Then I finished it!

Actually,, it was my first time to make the Honu and I enjoyed myself very mush. ^^

Thanks for the customer, always!

See you later.