Your Favorite Scrimshaw Artist?

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Who's your favorite scrimshaw artist? I recently met Gaetan Beauchamp of Quebec, Canada. Not only does he do traditional scrimshaw (on a light-colored surface), but he has also mastered reverse scrimshaw on a dark-colored surface like water buffalo horn, for example. I understand this is a much more difficult process as you can see in this picture.

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BackwoodsInventions said:
Who's your favorite scrimshaw artist? I recently met Gaetan Beauchamp of Quebec, Canada. Not only does he do traditional scrimshaw (on a light-colored surface), but he has also mastered reverse scrimshaw on a dark-colored surface like water buffalo horn, for example. I understand this is a much more difficult process as you can see in this picture.

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Wonderful artwork and awesome progression shots of it. Thanks for that.
 
I'm not a huge fan of scrimshaw but have liked a lot of Linda Karst Stone's work and some other's.

A Daniel Winkler & Karen Shook project with Steven Stuart's Scrim:
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A Edmund Davidson, Jere Davidson, Linda Karst Stone project from the 2008 Guild Show. Photo from David Darom's book "The Art of the Integral Knife".
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Another Edmund Davidson. Jere Davidson and Linda Karst Stone project. A Murray White Photo:
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Linda at her table last week at Blade Show:
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I don't like scrimshaw on knives...period.

It is by far too delicate a medium on a using knife, and prefer my art knives left to show the beauty of whatever handle material is employed.

Favorite three are sadly, deceased: Adam Funmaker, Rick B. Fields and Bob Engnath.

By FAR, my favorite living scrimshander is Gary(Garbo) Williams....his fine sense of artistry combines with a solidly twisted sense of whimsy that hits right:

http://www.scrimbygarbo.com/

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
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holy crap STeven, you aren't kidding that guy's work is amazing! Stands alone no doubt.
 
Kohai999 said:
Favorite three are sadly, deceased: Adam Funmaker, Rick B. Fields and Bob Egnath.

By FAR, my favorite living scrimshander is Gary(Garbo) Williams....his fine sense of artistry combines with a solidly twisted sense of whimsy that hits right:

http://www.scrimbygarbo.com/

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
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STeven, you're absolutely right about the great scrimhanders of the last 30 years or so. Garbo is my current favorite as well.

I would like to add a fairly unknown scrimhander Dr. Hans Peter Jensen. A German doctor who in his free time makes the most incredible scrims. He is presented in the book Contemporary Scrimshaw. Here is an example of his work.

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Marcel
 
For the most part, I agree with STeven. The scrim has to be done just right for me to want it on a knife.

That being said, "Garbo" is undoubtedly one of the best and one of my favorites.

Linda Karst Stone does excellent work as well and interestingly, she uses lines as opposed to dots as many scrimshanders use.

Another of my favorites is John Stahl who does fantastic birds of prey and big cats.

Peter
 
What is it with the massive thread necromancy this year....it's like an unprecedented phenomena?

Lupo, buddy....the thread is three years old.....and the scrim on your site is.....um.....okay.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
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A recent collaboration from Garbo who is my favorite living scrimshander. Rick Fields was a dear friend and is greatly missed along with his talent for scrimshaw.
 
Great looking dagger and scrimshaw. I have a small collection of scrimshaw (on walrus and mammoth ivory) and in a few months time I will have my first Garbo....I can hardly wait.

Marcel
 
Sorry STeven, but if a Newton/Garbo collab is the price we pay for breaking the rules, I'm with the criminals :)

Seth
 
Shouldn't this old thread be moved to "Maintenance, Tinkering and Embellishment" in any case, by virtue of the scrimshaw subject matter, it having nothing to do with knives?
 
Stefan Albert makes some great scrimshaw pieces , although as others have stated it is for me an art knife if it has scrimshaw.
That doesn't mean the knife won't hold up just its too pretty for me to use .
 
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