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America's Master Sculptor
http://blog.dan-efran.com/ 2007/ 06/ 18/ americas-master-sculptor.aspx
I'm interested in "hobbycraft" - building scale models of things, for example. It's fun, and some people get very good at it. Right now I want to call your attention to a little-known master of the art. Ernest "Mooney" Warther, a steel-mill worker with a second-grade education, spent over four decades carving the history of steam locomotives - over five dozen trains - in exquisite detail. Moving parts are lubricated with nothing but slippery wood; color is conveyed by different woods, not paint; he even made his own carving knives.
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