The WOOD BEE CARVER Sign is Whittle-Carved in two pieces of basswood with the base measuring five inches by an inch and a half by half inch thick and the figure measures two and a half inch tall by an inch square.  The base received incised carved letters “WOOD BEE CARVER” AND “MERTZ” and a wood burned logo of a Wood Bee.  A mortice was carved into the top of the base to receive the inch square base of the carved figure that is glued into the morticed opening.  The figure depicting the “Wood Bee Carver” stands two and a half inches tall being a depiction caricature likeness of “Mertz” the carver. The coloring of the carved figure used artist oil paint thinned with boiled linseed oil and finished with an application of Deft, a brushing lacquer.

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