Wood Carving

In order to carve fluorite, you will need to first use sandpaper to sand down the edges. You then will need to place the fluorite on a flat surface and use a stone carver to make your design.

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On Mt. Rushmore.

No, Mount Rushmore is carved in granite, which is a harder and more durable type of rock than sandstone. Sandstone is much softer and would erode more quickly, making it a less suitable material for such a carving.

The only sculpture Michelangelo signed is the 'Pieta', and it is signed at the front.

The sound a donkey makes, a town in Ireland.

One shrubbery, or perhaps a small herring.

Scratch carved eggs (called dryapanky in Ukrainian) are first dyed, and then a design scratched on with a sharp tool. They can be dyed both with chemical dyes (e.g. the aniline dyes sold for making pysanky) and with natural dyes (from botanical sources). The botanical dyes, while longer-lasting and less prone to fading, are more difficult to work with--plant materials have to be collected, boiled, strained, mordant added, and then the egg soaked for 24 hours or longer.

The Great Sphinx, believed to be the most immense stone sculpture in the round ever made by man, was carved [sculpted] from a huge rectangular bedrock block of limestone.

There is a book called Early American Wood Carvings, by Erwin Ottomar Christensen and is available on amazon.com. Hope this helps. Jett

, it is thought that the monuments represent portraits of powerful individual Olmec rulers.

Also known as the Parthenon marbles they are architectural carvings originally belonging to the Parthenon and other buildings at The Acropolis. Most likely created during the Golden Age of Athens(460–430 BC), Phidias was a great Athenian sculptor of the time who is known to have created the bronze statue of Athena.

Totems are carved to tell a story about a clan or family.

No, unfortunately. My girlfriend was born in November and the mineral of that month is pearl so I had to do some research on the subject. They do come in varying shapes though. Theirs essentially eight different shapes: round, semi-round, button, drop, pear, oval, baroque, and circled. ( baroque are the odd ones.)

use your imagination and chuck it at someones head

any carvings at all would be concidered "ornamental";given that ornamental means not necesary to its function.which for church pews that function being to seat the congragetion.

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A Reredos.

The carving was started on Oct 4, 1927 and "completed" on October 31, 1941. The full carving as it was originally designed was never fully completed.

George Washington had 26 siblings and his parents were very wealthy.His birthday is on February 22 in 1732.He lived in Mount Vernon though his mother did not approve.He was a planter and soldier before the constitutional convention.His wife Martha Curtis had 4 children 2 dying very young the other 2 died at age 17 and 27 both young also.He also had 2 adopted children.He was prresident of the convention and United States.

If we assume that you are using a 120V electric pencil sharpener, then it uses approximately 100 Watts.

Over a ten hour period of constant use, that would add up to 1 kWh.

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The newspaper is made from wood pulp. Nightstands are made from wood.

pew 1393, "raised, enclosed seat for certain worshippers" (ladies, important men, etc.), from O.Fr. puie, puy"balcony, elevation," from L. podia, pl. of podium"elevated place," also "balcony in a Roman theater". Meaning "fixed bench with a back, for a number of worshippers" is attested from 1631.