The Pen(cil Saw) is Mightier than the Sword!
Miniature masterpieces by Dalton Ghetti
Like my daughter with her shelf of tiny nicknacks, I too relish the most lilliputian of treasures. Gasp when I stumbled about this Bridgeport, CT artist, reviewed and showcased here on Telegraph,
who makes unbelievably intricate carvings from the tips of mere pencils including the entire alphabet, a saw, Elvis, keys, intertwined hearts.
Click the link for many more astounding pictures of these insane pencil tips. And here I am incapable of ever getting a good point with a sharpener.
From the review:
When Dalton, from Connecticut, USA, first started he would become frustrated when a piece would break before being finished after he had spent months working on it. He said: ‘It would drive me mad when I would be just a bit too heavy handed and the pencil’s tip would break. I would get very nervous sometimes, particularly when the piece was almost finished, and then I would make a mistake. I decided to change the way I thought about the work - when I started a new piece my attitude would be ‘well this will break eventually but let’s see how far I get. It helped me break fewer pencils, and although I still do break them, it’s not as often.’
