Pots in Whiskey Creek

Every once in a while my good friend Darrel Hancock and I get together and do a joint potting project. In the past this has usually involved making large vases. This time Darrel made twenty tea pots and 25 smaller vases, all of which I carved . Darrel was trimmng and fitting spouts onto the pots and as he finished, I took each one to my station and carved them. It took us two full days from morning well into the evening to finish all the work that Darrel threw.

It was a lot of fun hanging out with Darrel in his Whiskey Creek studio talking shop, going to the Coombs market (with goats on the market roof) , drinking coffee, and later in the day, listening to stories from Darrel's neighbour Randy - a commercial fisherman.



Randy had some atypical fishing stories, like the one about the 92' rogue wave that came out of the darkness one stormy summer evening in 1996 off the Queen Charlotte Islands. As someone who is fascinated by all things aquatic, and who suffers chronic tsunami paranoia, this one yarn was particularly rivetting if not absolutely stomach churning!