jct Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 Hello from France, My name is JCT (Jean Claude Thomas), I live in France where I am a farmer. As many french people, I only speak one foreign language: french !, this is a friend of mine who is translating my little message, please forgive me ! I am coming from the knife making world where I have discovered a wonderful material: Mammoth Ivory ! In this world I also met a guy full of talent: Greg DELAUNAY who accepted to teach me the Scrimshaw technic. Today I am trying sculpture and I am very shy/nervous to show you my first work (on the thumb of my neighbour !) in work on my thumb As for the Scrimshaw, Greg kept for himself "young naked women subjects" and he let me with the wild animals, this is less pleasing and more dangerous, well after giving it a second thought this is not so sure...... I have a lot to learn from you and eventhough I am not going to write here too often, you must know that I read your messages very regularly, eventhough I prefer the pictures. I also would like to thank all the persons who have dragged me into this path : Sergey Osipov and his poetic netsuke, Natasha Popova and her incredible talent, Cornel Schneider and his lezards, Tom Sterling and his magic ebook and of course Greg, my master 90 ( it’s a French joke) Please carry on, your talent is needed.... Jct Mammoth is the most wonderfull god creature after women and cows ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Sanders Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 Tres beau! I especially like the bear and his diminutive size. Have you done 'la vache' yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janel Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 What a wonderful and mOoooooving testimonial. Thank you Jean Claude, and welcome to The Carving Path forum! Show us more work when you are willing to. We like pictures too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Kelso Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Bonjour, un ami de Greg! Bienvenue! Keep up the good work, Jean-Claude. I wonder what crop(s) you grow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Delaunay Posted November 17, 2006 Report Share Posted November 17, 2006 hello Jct, (I have some problem of connection with internet) welcome in the world of 3D ! Jim, jct grows cows! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sergey_osipov Posted November 18, 2006 Report Share Posted November 18, 2006 Hello Jean Claude! And welcome to The Carving Path forum! Your works are good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jct Posted November 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2006 Thanks a lot for your welcome, I’m very happy. If you want to see my cows: http://www.gaecthomas.info Do you know "the Gigondas?"… it’s my favorite red wine… a votre santé jct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sergio Posted December 17, 2006 Report Share Posted December 17, 2006 Salut jct, comme on se retrouve, i hope that you show us more of your work, see you later. Resalut jct, est-ce que tu peux m'expliquer comment tu fais pour joindre des photos?. I ask jct how he does to join photos with the text, because i have not a gift with internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jct Posted December 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 hello Sergio, you have a personal message... a+ jct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YCL Yann Christophe Posted January 11, 2007 Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 Bonjour Jean-Claude, Cela fait plaisir de trouver quelques Français sur ce forum. Nous ne sommes pas si nombreux ! J'aime beaucoup ton travail et surtout la simplicité des formes et la fluidité des courbes. Je trouve ton couteau réellement magnifique et le damassé très à propos. Mais la question que je me pose c'est : Comment as-tu le temps de faire ces petites merveilles avec ton exploitation agricole et tes vaches qui ne te laissent guère de temps ? Bravo. Je suis moi-même sculpteur de netsuke et j'habite Paris. J'ai rarement l'occasion de passer dans le Lyonnais, alors, si tes pas te mènent jusqu'à la capitale, ce sera avec plaisir… Continue.java script:emoticon('',%20'smid_4') For americans, I try to traduce my words: I am very enjoy to find another french member on this forum and I very like his work. As I know what is a farmer work, I ask when he has time to carve this pretty things and do his knives ? And last, I invite him to meet in Paris. Jean-Claude Tu peux voir mon travail de sculpteur sur le site suivant : www.netsuke.fr Bien cordialement, Yann-Christophe Lemaire chlem@club-internet.fr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_art79 Posted January 11, 2007 Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 Hello you, it's very nice to see such a nice small carving. Like the bear! But I'm wondering Mamuth ivory, Is that like Ice-age mamuth. How can you get it and is it expansive? I also like the nife, Did you do the blade yourself? And would you like to tell us how? Another thing doh... I'm very sorry to say this but ... je ne parle pas frances So reading is like reading chinese and I like to read a lot so is it possible to write english? Again sorry to ask.... And looking forward to see more of your work bonjour, B_art79 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jct Posted January 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 Hello YCL, i’m very glad to see you here, i know your work and i like it. Do you know that Sergio is Serge Raoux?… Hello B_art79 Yes, mammoth is mammuthus primigenus, like in Ice-age. little heart in pink mammoth It’s not very expensive, in france, first price is 85 euros /1 Kg Look: http://stores.ebay.fr/FINE-TURNAGE-PRODUCTIONS The blade is in damasteel rose ( powder technologie) , it’s not a real Damascus . Excuse me, but I speak inglish like a spanich cow ( it’s a French joke). A+ jct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janel Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 "Excuse me, but I speak inglish like a spanich cow ( it’s a French joke)." !!! Thank you for the good laughter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natasha Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 Hello Jean-Claude! Thank You for your work, they were done very good! I like them! But I was very astonished reading "Mammoth is the most wonderfull god creature after women and cows ......" Yann-Christophe, your netsuke is amazing! Thank You! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jct Posted January 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 dear Natasha , it's true, I love the women, the cows and the mammoth... and the agricultural humour... thank you again for your talent a+ jct here's my last scrimshaw( 3cm) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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