Topic: "Mazuma" 8 inch Physical Bitcoin - page 3. (Read 7171 times)

Will do. Sorry for cluttering your thread. 

Shoot me a PM smoothie, i will go more into detail for you, or do you maybe have skype? I dont want to clutter up the thread with a pages full of talk about the difference between laser engraving and carving. On skype we could have conversation, you could teach me some things i dont know about laser engraving, and i can teach you about the process and results of carving.

Any time smoothie. You know, sooner or later you are going to have to make one of these art pieces yours, or commission your own. A man with your reputation and stature in the Bitcoin community needs something beautiful in his home or office to memorialize his position on Bitcoin.

Maybe something from Koa or Mangowood to represent Hawaii



Thanks Og, I will be messaging you in a bit or maybe tomorrow for an escrow if you wouldnt mind. Have to ship a $17,000 bitcoin art piece and there is no way it leaves my hands without funding from someone who who has 0 reputation in this community and only 9 posts as of today.

To date this is the (as far as I know) THE largest physical bitcoin in existence!
AWESOME!

From what I gather from the photos you posted above it seems to me (from what I can see) that your piece looks more like this http://i.imgur.com/CoDNGQm.jpg than this http://i.imgur.com/CoDNGQm.jpg

If I am not mistaken it does look a bit flat from the pictures. Could you elaborate to me how it is not like the first link I pasted above?

Lasers also have the ability to go at different depths. I would imagine other more specialized lasers have the ability to move the laser in a 3-dimensional space to carve out an image like the second link you provided above.

All one would need to do is provide the 3dimensional vector image to the system and it would do something as complex as the second link.

Then again that last part I am just guessing as I have not used a 3d laser (if it exists).

Beautiful.

WoodCollector, thank you for pointing this out for me. Now I have learned something new and will take it and use it going forward.

Aloha!

The smell was "Like Ass" and its because of the UV sealer. As it cures it off gasses and smells like rotten eggs mixed with horse manure.

Its hard to see in some photos of some pieces but carving has many dimensions, A laser printer looks flat like ink on paper, Carving creates many dimensions along the horizontal plane. When you look at Transcendence you can see that each block that was carved is not only rectangular when looking at it straight on but it is also perfectly round when you look at it from a side view as each block holds 2 shapes as you move around it, thus giving it the appearance that it is moving while it is sitting still. To put it simply, THIS PIECE was carved, and THIS PIECE was lasered. you can see that the carved piece ans 3 dimensional characteristics while the lasered piece has no relief or charecter. Lasering is like extruded images.


You may, yes. There will only be 10 coins made this year ranging from $500 to maybe $10,000 or $20,000 each certified by a CoA. You could list the bitcoin addresses used on the CoA as a means of verifying authenticity for future buyers if someone who purchases the piece from me wishes to sell it to someone else. Each piece in the collection will have a name, and each piece will have its own design and be made from a different exotic wood.

This is really very, very cool!

big question is, should I include this in my guide of physical crypto coins? perhaps not as a 'normal' entry, but a special page for out-of-the-box things like this.

see it at www.coinfirm.org

Perhaps I misread why the smell was "burnt"?

Isn't carving's only dimension DEPTH given length and width is a given on any flat surface?

Please realize I am no expert in carving and am really just curious.

Hand carved with chisels and worked with a dremmel tool and sandpaper.



No offense taken.

I've seen lasered wood before and it just looks dull to me. It only has 1 real dimension and that's depth. I was looking into getting a laser to speed up the stenciling process but after a day of searching found that any good ones run $20,000 up to $80,000 which is a lot more than i want to spend to save 5 minutes of work of transferring an outline from paper to wood.

Is this hand carved?

Honestly, no offense it looks like it was laser engraved. I've lasered wood and it looks very similar in nature.

Nice work!!

Thanks Thermost !!

Amazing details on there! wish I had the patience and skill to carve wood like that.

Thanks John
I appreciate that Icey


$450 and up. It really hits a tipping point in size vs. quality. It costs less for the wood to do something smaller, but takes 3 times the amount of time to do the carving in that kind of detail. $450 would get you a 4" coin but would not have anything as detailed as the bear head on Mazuma on it. If you went with a cheaper wood i could do a 4" coin for around $300 out of things like Mahogany, Padauk, Curly Maple, Cherry, or Mallee.


Reply sent. Piece will be held for 23 more hours to give Saigon time to send payment if he still wants to purchase it when he wakes up.


This one took me a little over 61 hours to carve, should have been done in about 35-40 but i had to stop about once an hour to sharpen the chisels. Purpleheart is very dense and eats through tools like their a McDonalds Quarter Pounder.

Yes i will create display cases for my art, so long as i can turn the display piece into art as well. Basic shadow boxes start at around $200 - $250, Pedestals start at around $350 for somethign 36" tall and 7" round, It would be a waste of time if you just wanted me to slap wood together with glue then ship it. But if you will let me carve a little on it, that makes the display accent art for the piece it is showing off.


Like burnt ass at the moment, it just got its last coat of PolyCrylic coating to keep it from aging to quickly and to ensure it last for a thousand years to come. PolyCrylic has a worse smell than CA glue when it dries. By tomorrow it wont smell like anything.

How's it smell

Wow you have some amazing skills. How many hours did that take to carve and apply the finish to it?

Edit: Would you be willing to create display cases for your pieces, or is that sort of a waste of time for you?

I sent you a PM, beautiful.

That is one mighty piece of art.
Out of curiosity, what would the price be for something similar but quite a bit smaller in size?

Stunning peice