Shit, I totally gotta pass. No WAY can I scrounge up that kind of money now (or within the next month), hope there's a second run some day.

Frank will you be refining it or leaving it as is. Like will the eyes be masked etc...

Is there going to be a pickup in San Francisco like your last ones?

that's F-ing Sick! The fact that it's wood and articulated kills everything I've seen in the past couple of years.

If this sculpt is declined, we declare it a bootleg, secede and issue our own passports ...

Man that's just ridiculously awesome..... $800 to me in NZ....... hmmmmmm, can't believe i'm even considering it, but i so totally am

wood be ideal if this was shipped via boat. I think it will cut cost by two thirds. Better yet ship from Asia to destinations in Asia. Me dream on.

wonder if it floats?

def. going to get this. whatever it takes!

if this goes well, is Chaos next???

bummer about the lack of articulation though.

this is nuts deff. going to get.

Amazing. Worth 5 and some change for sure.

+1 hell yeah!! i just got back in from the rain and snatched enough purses to buy this s.o.b.!! hah! j/k.. about the articulation.. does it really matter to a whole lot of you? and if it did matter to a bunch of ppl, frank, could you do anything about this? just curious...

btw, are the gianormous header card/bag idea still a go?

what a way to end/start a week!! i agree with selekta.. i haven't had a crazy SB day like this in awhile! LASH with his set and frank's 3 ft update!

Thanks to you guys i even forgot I am in pain from my wisdom teeth removal! hah!

this is truly amazing.

Very nice!

I think Frank has let Rommel ship directly from his place to international customers before? I could be imagining that though I hope he will because I can't afford shipping from US.

I'll guarantee it does.

The very few wood species with a specific gravity over 1 are WAY too hard to use for carving, and would be tough to find in large-enough pieces to make this even in the obvious segments. Lignum vitae, leadwood, princewood, crabwood, some ironwood varieties - all the really heavy woods are slow-growing Caribbean species, and don't tend to get huge. They are slow-growing to begin with, and live for the most part in thin, alkaline soils. The specimens that did manage to get huge were virtually all harvested by the British Navy for uses like pulley shafts, ball bearings, etc. in the 17 and 18C.

I have some crabwood from Key Largo, about 7" diameter, which has over 200 growth rings per inch - it took more than 800 years for it to even grow to 7" diameter.

I'd guess from the pics that this is made from acacia wood (or some Philippine variety thereof).

That is some serious skill from Rommel. This evil brings me back to my childhood when we had most of our favorite toys made from wood. Why do I have to live in Canada

C'mon you guys have lots of wood!

6% more than the US, apparently ...

Could just have it shipped to a US address of faimly or a friend and swoop on down sometime to nab it?

yipes! look at Japan! lord knows I am doing my best to get the average up!

I do have some friends in NY, but I don't know how many of them will store a huge crate in their small apartments And I hate to impose hehe.

True there's lots of it everywhere, but do you know how long it will take me to chop through 200 growth rings? I'm no physical specimen!

Dang... I gotta move to Greece.

Well, what do you expect from a nation named after a lubricant?

I still find it tough to imagine that almost EVERYONE is getting laid every week, I mean, does that include 85-year-olds? Or do people tend to marry young in Greece?