I've been going through all my old stuff lately & I found this picture of it. The actual carving itself was lost in one of my house fires a while back so sadly I don't have it anymore.
I wish I still did though. This thing took me a week to finish & it was the first time I ever carved wood before. Plus I did the whole thing with nothing but a box cutter 😅
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pretty dang cool. at least you've got a pic still
hard to believe you did it with a box cutter without slicing off a finger, tho, lol
@SW-User yeah I'm glad I got the pic because at least I still know what it looked like 😌 but lol yeah the box cutter part is usually where people go "what, how?" 😂
But that's why it took a week. It was a slow process & I had to get creative in order to cut the curves how I wanted. I'm not worried about giving my name out though so that's alright 😅
SW-User
@ChiefJustWalks Ramirez is Spanish for Smith. no one's gonna find that needle in the haystack ;)
maybe you should recreate it? that could be cool 😌
@SW-User is it really? 🤔 I'm Mexican & I didn't know that but my Spanish sucks 🤷 but it's Ramirez because my grandpa changed his last name after his dad left. He died before I was born so I only heard the story from my dad recently
But I would.. It would just take me way longer 😭 I spent multiple hours every day for a week just to do that one lol
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@ChiefJustWalks Mexican's are in large part of Spanish descent to varying degrees , and the name Ramirez goes back quite a way in Spanish history. your dad's previous surname was probably Spanish as well, maybe.
Are Mexicans and Spain related? Spanish descendants make up the largest group of Europeans in Mexico and a majority of Mexicans have some degree of Spanish descent.
I'm part Spanish too, but mostly Scottish and English so my surname is Scottish.
maybe you could use different tools next time? just a thought :)
@SW-User yeah I have Spanish in my blood, most of us do. But more of my blood traces back to the Aztecs. I'm not only Mexican but I'm Yaqui as well, which is a Mexican native tribe. After the Aztec empire was destroyed by the Spanish back then, the remaining Aztecs formed 3 major tribes, one of them being mine 🤙
You have an interesting mix though, I like hearing what people's ethnic history is combined with. But I just might try that 🤔 I only used a box cutter back then because I was broke & that's what I had. But I got money now 😁
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@ChiefJustWalks check out the heritage on you! very interesting. i knew the largest part would probably be Aztec, but i'm no genealogist, lol
