The faces and objects pictured below are carved from the pits of fruit such as peach, plum, apricot, olive, sweet cherry, wild cherry and even the seed from the dogwood tree. I hope that you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed carving them!
These are some of my recent carvings!
The two on the left are wild cherry and sweet cherry pits. The two on the right are olive pits!
The alien is carved from a sweet cherry pit.
This skull was carved from a sweet black cherry pit
The members of this happy looking crew were also carved from sweet black cherry pits
These five little guys are the two smallest pits in my hand above, they were
carved from choke cherry pits, the smallest cherry pits I could find!
.Here are examples of carved olive pits!
.Examples of carved peach pits
Here is an old standard.
A monkey biting his tail carved from a peach pit!
This is a monkey biting his tail carved from an olive pit!
Here is the smallest one yet!
This one was carved from the seed inside the red berry from a Dogwood tree!
This is a picture of all three for a comparison.
Examples of carved plum pits
Bob Shamey, of Ligonier, PA
CARVES MINIATURE HUMAN FACES
Out of cherry pits!
As featured in Ripley's Believe It Or Not!
For the second time!
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