Recent Work

"Lioness and Cub" is my entry for this year's International Scrimshaw Competition at Mystic Scrimshaners in Warwick, RI. It is done on a mammoth ivory cabochon with a wood stand made of ebony, mammoth ivory and abalone by Ken Fredericks.

4" X 3 1/2" X 1 3/8" (overall)

A black jaguar prepared to pounce from his perch on the stone inscriptions of a Mayan ruin in the Yucatan jungle. Scrimmed on a 1 1/2 lb. piece of a fossil walrus tusk. The wooden mount is made from rosewood, ebony, fossil walrus ivory and abalone by Ken Fredericks.

7" X 2 3/4" X 1 1/2" (ivory only)

The owner of this beautiful sperm whale tooth (a resident of Washington State) commissioned this whaling scene. It depicts the crew of the whale boat cautiously approaching a breaching sperm whale before throwing the first harpoon. The back is illustrated in the style of a 19th century engraving accompanied by a verse of an old whaling song.

5" X 2 3/4"

This piece was done for a collector of scrimshaw that I have worked with over the years on several projects. It was his idea to do a scrimshaw commemorating Christopher Columbus' voyage on this large strip of mammoth ivory that he got on a trip to Alaska. The wood base is made from pheasant wood by Roger Cash.

3' to 1 3/4' X 19" (ivory dimensions)

"Elusive Cat", a snow leopard scrimmed on the tip of a fossil walrus tusk. This piece was my entry for the 7th annual International Scrimshaw Competition put on by Mystic Scrimshanders in Wickford, CT. It won first place for the color wildlife category. The stand of santos rosewood with ivory, ebony and abalone inlay was made by Ken Fredericks.

2 3/4" X 10 1/2" X 2' overall size

An underwater scene of humpback whales scrimmed on a fossil walrus artifact.

2 1/2" X 7 1/2" X 1 1/4"

"The Hazards of the Whale Fisheries" was commissioned by the owner of this sperm whale tooth residing in Washington state. It is a composite of several 19th century engravings as well as my own imagination. Mount by Ken Fredericks.

3" X 7 3/8" X 2 3/4"

This scrim was done on one of the nicest (and largest) slabs of mammoth ivory I have ever worked on. The mount is by Roger Cash and I scrimmed a double eagle NW design in the ivory inlay.

7 1/2" X 5 3/4" X 3 3/4"

This scene on a piece of mammoth ivory depicts a black jaguar standing on ancient Mayan inscriptions carved in stone with the ruins of a temple in the background, drawn from the work of Frederick Catherwood (one of the first westerners to view these Mayan sites and to document them in sketches and engravings in the early 19th Century). The beautiful wood mount with inlay is made by Ken Fredericks.

6" X 5" X 2 1/2"

Scrimshaw on an antique sperm whale tooth with inlay mount by Ken Fredericks.

"Rising with his utmost velocity from the furthest depths, the Whale thus booms his entire bulk into the pure element of air, and piling up a mountain of dazzling foam,...the torn, enraged waves he shakes off, seem his mane; in some cases, this breaching is his act of defiance." Herman Melville in Moby-Dick

6 1/4" X 2 5/8" X 1 3/4" (ivory)

This set was designed through a collaboration between Ken Fredericks and myself. Unable to find suitable matching pieces of mammoth ivory we came up with the idea of cutting these from a single section of a fossil walrus tusk making a unique matching pair. The bases are made of ebony with inlay of fossil walrus ivory.

3 7/8" X 4 1/8" X 1 1/2" each overall

This Old World Globe is based on a map by Hondius circa 1630 scrimmed on an ivory billiard ball. The wooden stand is made by Ken Fredericks.

1 7/8" diameter

Scrim on a Carlson folding knife of images from well known Japanese woodblock prints of samurai warriors.

2 1/4"

A Bengal tiger scrimmed on mammoth ivory.

2 1/4" X 4 1/4"

"Catching a Break", scrimmed on a fossil walrus tusk with a Ken Fredericks mount.

2" X 8 1/2" X 1 1/4" (ivory

This pair of male Mandarin ducks is a scrim I did on a beautiful piece of mammoth ivory prepared and mounted by Ken Fredericks. Inspired by a Mandarin I saw in Lithia park in Ashland, Oregon.

4 1/4" X 3 1/2" X 1 3/4"

"Bull Elk with Harem", scrimmed on a fossil walrus ivory artifact.

2 1/2" X 11 3/4" X 1 1/2"

A scrim of a mother elephant and her young on a piece of ancient walrus ivory used as an ice axe hundreds of years ago.

2 3/4" X 8 1/2"

This globe is done on one of the larger ivory billiard balls I have worked on. I used a map drawn for the United States Fisheries Commission by A. Howard Clarke in the 1850's delineating the whaling grounds of the world. I took advantage of the size of the ivory to insert images from old whaling prints.

2 1/4 " diameter