Here today I completed a couple new tooling for smaller works, to fit within a 5/8" hole. A laser attachment fit both tools. The handles are slightly rounded for comfort. I kept the square flat areas for control with rear steady rest. bent tooling, setting up New tooling to fit in 5/8" opening with laser attachment Bent tooling with lignum vitea handle Two new tooling, Laser dot at bent tool 1x1 Lignum Vitea handles
From my mind as a black man living in modern American social ills. Gerard Merchant was born in 1959 in Lynchburg, Virginia. My works are primarily in wood sculpture. My sculptures emerge through a process of retakes and variations that mark my creative journey of examining the ambiguity between my vision, and the wood’s already exquisite origination. As I execute unclear and less formal rules and which should always reference the partnership with Nature, we create Art.