[JIM QUILICI]

my wife ask me to take a couple of my pawns.... That I'm carving for four chess sets , I'm making for our four boys..(Cowboys and Indians)...cut off the base and place the head on a bottle....these bottles are 1870-1900 vintage..I found them ( plus a million more ) 15-20 feet below the ground while digging out a structure for southern pacific rail road...... there were old Chinese broken plates..mixture of bottles also...... its not there now but there was suppose to be a china town there in the 1850's-1910 and that the site was the banks of San Francisco bay ...now the bay is about 700 feet away ..filled in thru the years......I could be dead before I finish the chess sets ....so I'm giving our boys these bottle stoppers as a sample of what the cowboy part of the chess set could have been.....also makes my wife happy......happy wife ....happy life...and I'm very happy...happy.happy
Jim

[Kenny_S]

Great stoppers Jim. I like them. Yep, One of the best advice I gave my son before he got married was," Son, you can either be happy in your marriage, or , you can be right"!. He then ask me which one I was. I said I am .

None the less, it is a shame that you had to cut the bases off but then, Equally nice presents for the boys. My hat is off to you Jim.

[Lynn O. Doughty]

Nice stoppers Jim. I agree about the chess sets. Years ago my Dad and Mom gave me a uncarved chess set as a gift when I was just getting interested in carving. I think I got through two pawns before realizing just what a job it was going to be. I stopped before getting to the third pawn.

[wood-whittler]

great carvings jim, really like your cowboys, your right about keeping the wife happy and all is happy, a man told me when i got married all you have to do is remember four words and it will be ok they are " you are right honey". it works for me.



bart

[Just Carving]

Now you have another idea for carving--cowboy/cowgirl chess sets!

[gene messer]

Great job Jim .. Really like your painting combination .. especially the scarf ..

As usual Jim .. you never disappoint us with your caricatures ..


Excellent job ..

Gene

[Jim OH]

Jim,
Nice work on the bottlestoppers! I am attempting ONE chess set and am not sure if I will ever get it done. Glad to see you are able to make everyone happy at once;O), I know the stoppers will be a cherished gift !
Jim OH

[Arnold Smith]

Jim,
Good work on the bottlestoppers.

Arnold

[tucker1931]

Jim, the carvings are exceptional, and the painting is great, I also really like the old ink bottles that you were lucky enough to unearth. I used to search for and dig old dumps many years ago and had several of those at one time. You are so right about the wife thing, I've been married 54 years, it's been wonderful. Please keep showing your great carvings.
Cliff

[Lightningbolt]

Hey, that'd look real nice on top of a walking stick! Nice job.