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Find images of Paul's newest pieces and more. You can filter posts using the tags in the sidebar.

September 28, 2018

2018 American Craft Exposition

Spent a wonderful week exhibiting in the American Craft Exposition at the Chicago Botanic Garden. The show was impressive, as always, and well attended. Check out these photos of our work!

2018 American Craft Exposition booth
hand crafted wooden fish sculptures
Rusty metal clad barracuda and hand carved birds on wall perch
Display of hand carved birds, bugs and snakes displayed with coffee measures and dogs made from vintage tins
Coffee measures hand crafted from vintage coffee tins
Hand made magnets created from a variety of materials such as bottle caps, phonograph records and aerosol can bottoms

Filed Under: Recent Works Tagged With: beetles, birds, bottle caps, bugs, fish, magnets, masks, metal-clad, painted, snakes, tins, vintage

March 3, 2018

2018 ACC Baltimore Craft Show

The 2018 ACC Baltimore Craft Show was terrific! Check out these shots of my booth.

Left side of booth at the 2018 ACC Baltimore show
Right side of booth at the 2018 ACC Baltimore show
Snakes and Bugs displayed at the 2018 ACC Baltimore show
Display of Bugs and a tabletop bird stick at the 2018 ACC Baltimore show.
Bird display in booth on retail days of the 2018 ACC Baltimore show.

Filed Under: Recent Works Tagged With: birds, bugs, fish, masks, snakes

January 12, 2018

Bottle Cap Fish

Beer bottle caps serve great as fish scales if patterned right! Barracuda, Wahoo, and Mackerel. Each has a pine body clad with patterns of ‘scales’ made of bottle caps, and each with a bottle cap eye. The mackerel and wahoo have heads clad in painted tin. Each piece in this style is one of a kind. Barracuda is 52” long, 11” wide at the tail, and the Wahoo is 38” long, 11” wide at the tail. The Mackerel is 33″ long, 11″ at the widest point. Contact me for availability of pieces in this style.

hand crafted wooden fish sculpture with bottle cap plating and metal fins
hand crafted wooden fish sculpture with bottle cap plating and metal fins
hand crafted wooden fish sculpture with bottle cap plating and metal fins
hand crafted wooden fish sculpture with bottle cap plating and metal fins
hand crafted wooden fish sculpture with bottle cap plating and metal fins
hand crafted wooden fish sculpture with bottle cap plating and metal fins

Filed Under: Recent Works Tagged With: bottle caps, fish, metal-clad

December 13, 2017

Quilted Fish

One of my favorite styles of fish to make. Seabass, Barracuda, and Wahoo. Each has a pine body clad with antique tin pieces shaped and nailed on, with a bottle cap eye. Each piece in this style is absolutely one of a kind. Seabass are 33” long, 12” at widest point. Barracuda 52” long, 11” wide at the tail, and the Wahoo is 38” long, 11” wide at the tail. Contact me if you are interested in a piece in this style.

hand crafted wooden fish sculpture with antique tin plating and fins
hand crafted wooden fish sculpture with antique tin plating and fins
hand crafted wooden fish sculpture with antique tin plating and fins
hand crafted wooden fish sculpture with antique tin plating and fins
hand crafted wooden fish sculpture with antique tin plating and fins

Filed Under: Recent Works Tagged With: antique, fish, metal-clad, quilted

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Made to Order

Each of Paul’s pieces is unique, and the images in the portfolio section of this site may not reflect what is currently in stock. Not to worry! Paul does custom orders. If you see a piece in the gallery that’s not listed as available in the Recent Works section, get in touch with Paul and let him know what you’re interested in. Note that availability and pricing is based on labor and materials on hand.

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Have you noticed that some of the photos on the site look really, really good? They were most likely taken by Triad area photographer and dear friend Alex Bee. See more of his work at:

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