Craft and Design
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.
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 carved pine beetles with carefully fitted tin exoskeleton screwed in place, poseable rusty fence wire legs. 5” to 7” long. Each piece is unique; similar pieces are available. Photos by Paul.
Amberjack and Seabass. Copper plates with a black patina and shaped and nailed to pine body, mother of pearl and copper eyes. Punched decoration pattern on the seabass. The seabass is 33”long, 12” at widest point, amberjack is 40” long, 13” at widest point. Similar pieces available.
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:
