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I Carved A Unique Lamp Out Of An African Fruit
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I Carved A Unique Lamp Out Of An African Fruit

I Spent 2000 Hours Carving The Skin Of An African Fruit And Made This Unique LampI Carved A Unique Lamp Out Of An African FruitI Carved A Unique Lamp Out Of An African FruitI Carved A Unique Lamp Out Of An African FruitI Carved A Unique Lamp Out Of An African FruitI Carved A Unique Lamp Out Of An African FruitI Carved A Unique Lamp Out Of An African FruitI Carved A Unique Lamp Out Of An African FruitI Carved A Unique Lamp Out Of An African FruitI Carved A Unique Lamp Out Of An African Fruit
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Have you ever noticed how things look bellow water surface? Weird and distorted? It’s due to the refraction of light. I live by the beautiful lake Ohrid and this effect was always interesting to me. It inspired me to make a beautiful lamp about it.

I used a dried gourd from Mali (Africa) for the head and a black walnut for the neck and the base.

More info: klimentbul.com

I drew the pattern and engraved it with a rotary tool

I started carving for a long, long time

…and sanded every surface on the gourd

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Made some holes so the light can escape outside

…and added some texture

After carving some waves on this beautiful walnut

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I was able to assemble it and turn it on for the first time

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..so I can somehow bring the lake to me

Watch how it was made

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Kliment Bul

Kliment Bul

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I make delicately carved light sculptures out of dried African gourds. Every piece is unique. It takes from 1000 to 2000 hours to finish one piece.

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Kliment Bul

Kliment Bul

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I make delicately carved light sculptures out of dried African gourds. Every piece is unique. It takes from 1000 to 2000 hours to finish one piece.

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Jean van der Merwe
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is beautiful! I live in Africa and have often seen carved “calabash” as we call it here, but this is absolutely exquisite.

Isa
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was thinking the same. I was born in Angola and we have the Cabaças and I remember that my grandmother have one but not with an work as this one.

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Jef Bateman
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nice. It definitely takes a lot of patience to do that! I have a friend who is a luthier who has that same sort of absorption in his work. Hours spent with little noticeable progress - I admire your work.

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Jean van der Merwe
Community Member
6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is beautiful! I live in Africa and have often seen carved “calabash” as we call it here, but this is absolutely exquisite.

Isa
Community Member
6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was thinking the same. I was born in Angola and we have the Cabaças and I remember that my grandmother have one but not with an work as this one.

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Jef Bateman
Community Member
6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nice. It definitely takes a lot of patience to do that! I have a friend who is a luthier who has that same sort of absorption in his work. Hours spent with little noticeable progress - I admire your work.

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