It was a little tricky lining up these fingers to meet up ...and NOT break them while trying to do so!

I have spent over 60 hours carving and re-carving these tiny fingers that are about the thickness of a horse hair!

The first glass that I made was too small. The second one was too big. The third one was just right!

Getting the angle of these carvings correct was near impossible, I kept running of of lead!

Padauk wood is dense BUT not so dense at this scale! I ran into a lot of holes as I thinned this out. I re-carved it 3 times, it was too big and I kept running into holes, which made it fall apart when it was paper thin.

I used padauk wood for the handle on this one. In the past I have used a toothpick, I Love the color of this wood though.

The bird is a speck of graphite with the naked eye!

This may look like a simple carving... But it was more complicated than it looks because of the way the thumb crosses over.

I had to carve this ring box 4 times. The ring is a sliver from the smallest gold chain that I could find. The most difficult thing with this carving was setting that tiny speck of gold in the box!