"Mazuma" 8 inch Physical Bitcoin

[WoodCollector]

"Mazuma"

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Commissioned by: Sometimes i just make the things i feel i need to make before i die. If someone buys it, its a bonus and a compliment.
Material: Grade AAA Purpleheart
Purchased By: Pistachio

Dare to dive into the raging markets of BTCitcoin. Going from bull to bear then back to bull all in only 1 day. "Mazuma" (Hebrew slang for money) represents all that Bitcoin is in today's market climates, and is the first of only 10 physical BTCitcoins i will be making for the 2015 calender year.

At 8" round and 2" thick Mazuma weighs in at just over 12 pounds and is carved from the highest grade Purpleheart wood a person can ever get their hands on. This high grade Purpleheart only comes from the top 3 or 4 feet of trees that exceed 160 foot tall and contains the highest resin concentration of Purpleheart wood which leads it to turning the deepest "crown royal" purple color you will ever find.

When freshly cut the heartwood of Purpleheart is a  dull grayish/purplish brown. Upon exposure the wood becomes a deeper eggplant purple. With further age and exposure to UV light, the wood becomes a dark brown with a hint of purple. The high grade Purpleheart that Mazuma is made of has a super high resin content that leaves it more purple than others after aging. This piece was freshly cut and worked by hand so it still has 5-10 years to fully age to its darkest color but will start to show its deep royal purples within the next week or two.

Mazuma can be hung on a wall, framed in a shadowbox or displayed on a pedestal or desk. Once sold, the purchaser can tell me how they intend to display it and i will prepare it for display.

For an extra .25BTC i will carve your bitcoin address and/or QR code into the reverse side of the coin as well as carve out a recess if you would like to store the private key to that address.

The buyer will receive a CoA (certificate of authenticity) from me usually within 1-2 weeks of receiving the artwork. As many of you who have bought my art already know, i use Bitcoin technology and Vanity addresses on my CoA's and it can take up to 2 weeks to generate the desired result.

Each of the 10 coins i make for the 2015 year will have a different design, and if you would like to request something special for your own coin design or a special denomination you may feel free to contact me and i can make sure that 1 of the 9 remaining is designed with you in mind.

Please feel free to ask any questions below, and if your board and just browsing the web, take a minute to check out my other Bitcoin artworks.

[Zeta0S]

nnnnno!

[John (John K.)]

Good god - this is breathtakingly beautiful with the amount of detail on it!

[icey]

Stunning peice

[AT101ET]

That is one mighty piece of art.
Out of curiosity, what would the price be for something similar but quite a bit smaller in size?

[Saigonsmokes]

I sent you a PM, beautiful.

[Blazed]

Wow you have some amazing skills. How many hours did that take to carve and apply the finish to it?

Edit: Would you be willing to create display cases for your pieces, or is that sort of a waste of time for you?

[bitpop]

How's it smell

[WoodCollector]

Good god - this is breathtakingly beautiful with the amount of detail on it!

Thanks John

Stunning peice

I appreciate that Icey

That is one mighty piece of art.
Out of curiosity, what would the price be for something similar but quite a bit smaller in size?

$450 and up. It really hits a tipping point in size vs. quality. It costs less for the wood to do something smaller, but takes 3 times the amount of time to do the carving in that kind of detail. $450 would get you a 4" coin but would not have anything as detailed as the bear head on Mazuma on it. If you went with a cheaper wood i could do a 4" coin for around $300 out of things like Mahogany, Padauk, Curly Maple, Cherry, or Mallee.

I sent you a PM, beautiful.

Reply sent. Piece will be held for 23 more hours to give Saigon time to send payment if he still wants to purchase it when he wakes up.

Wow you have some amazing skills. How many hours did that take to carve and apply the finish to it?

Edit: Would you be willing to create display cases for your pieces, or is that sort of a waste of time for you?

This one took me a little over 61 hours to carve, should have been done in about 35-40 but i had to stop about once an hour to sharpen the chisels. Purpleheart is very dense and eats through tools like their a McDonalds Quarter Pounder.

Yes i will create display cases for my art, so long as i can turn the display piece into art as well. Basic shadow boxes start at around $200 - $250, Pedestals start at around $350 for somethign 36" tall and 7" round, It would be a waste of time if you just wanted me to slap wood together with glue then ship it. But if you will let me carve a little on it, that makes the display accent art for the piece it is showing off.

How's it smell

Like burnt ass at the moment, it just got its last coat of PolyCrylic coating to keep it from aging to quickly and to ensure it last for a thousand years to come. PolyCrylic has a worse smell than CA glue when it dries. By tomorrow it wont smell like anything.

[thermost]

Amazing details on there! wish I had the patience and skill to carve wood like that.

[WoodCollector]

Amazing details on there! wish I had the patience and skill to carve wood like that.

Thanks Thermost !!

[smoothie]

Is this hand carved?

Honestly, no offense it looks like it was laser engraved. I've lasered wood and it looks very similar in nature.

Nice work!!

[WoodCollector]

Is this hand carved?

Honestly, no offense it looks like it was laser engraved. I've lasered wood and it looks very similar in nature.

Nice work!!

Hand carved with chisels and worked with a dremmel tool and sandpaper.



No offense taken.

I've seen lasered wood before and it just looks dull to me. It only has 1 real dimension and that's depth. I was looking into getting a laser to speed up the stenciling process but after a day of searching found that any good ones run $20,000 up to $80,000 which is a lot more than i want to spend to save 5 minutes of work of transferring an outline from paper to wood.

[smoothie]

Is this hand carved?

Honestly, no offense it looks like it was laser engraved. I've lasered wood and it looks very similar in nature.

Nice work!!

Hand carved with chisels and worked with a dremmel tool and sandpaper.



No offense taken.

I've seen lasered wood before and it just looks dull to me. It only has 1 real dimension and that's depth. I was looking into getting a laser to speed up the stenciling process but after a day of searching found that any good ones run $20,000 up to $80,000 which is a lot more than i want to spend to save 5 minutes of work of transferring an outline from paper to wood.

Perhaps I misread why the smell was "burnt"?

Isn't carving's only dimension DEPTH given length and width is a given on any flat surface?

Please realize I am no expert in carving and am really just curious.

[elianite]

This is really very, very cool!

big question is, should I include this in my guide of physical crypto coins? perhaps not as a 'normal' entry, but a special page for out-of-the-box things like this.

see it at www.coinfirm.org

[WoodCollector]

Perhaps I misread why the smell was "burnt"?

Isn't carving's only dimension DEPTH given length and width is a given on any flat surface?

Please realize I am no expert in carving and am really just curious.

The smell was "Like Ass" and its because of the UV sealer. As it cures it off gasses and smells like rotten eggs mixed with horse manure.

Its hard to see in some photos of some pieces but carving has many dimensions, A laser printer looks flat like ink on paper, Carving creates many dimensions along the horizontal plane. When you look at Transcendence you can see that each block that was carved is not only rectangular when looking at it straight on but it is also perfectly round when you look at it from a side view as each block holds 2 shapes as you move around it, thus giving it the appearance that it is moving while it is sitting still. To put it simply, THIS PIECE was carved, and THIS PIECE was lasered. you can see that the carved piece ans 3 dimensional characteristics while the lasered piece has no relief or charecter. Lasering is like extruded images.

This is really very, very cool!

big question is, should I include this in my guide of physical crypto coins? perhaps not as a 'normal' entry, but a special page for out-of-the-box things like this.

see it at www.coinfirm.org

You may, yes. There will only be 10 coins made this year ranging from $500 to maybe $10,000 or $20,000 each certified by a CoA. You could list the bitcoin addresses used on the CoA as a means of verifying authenticity for future buyers if someone who purchases the piece from me wishes to sell it to someone else. Each piece in the collection will have a name, and each piece will have its own design and be made from a different exotic wood.

[smoothie]

Perhaps I misread why the smell was "burnt"?

Isn't carving's only dimension DEPTH given length and width is a given on any flat surface?

Please realize I am no expert in carving and am really just curious.

The smell was "Like Ass" and its because of the UV sealer. As it cures it off gasses and smells like rotten eggs mixed with horse manure.

Its hard to see in some photos of some pieces but carving has many dimensions, A laser printer looks flat like ink on paper, Carving creates many dimensions along the horizontal plane. When you look at Transcendence you can see that each block that was carved is not only rectangular when looking at it straight on but it is also perfectly round when you look at it from a side view as each block holds 2 shapes as you move around it, thus giving it the appearance that it is moving while it is sitting still. To put it simply, THIS PIECE was carved, and THIS PIECE was lasered. you can see that the carved piece ans 3 dimensional characteristics while the lasered piece has no relief or charecter. Lasering is like extruded images.

This is really very, very cool!

big question is, should I include this in my guide of physical crypto coins? perhaps not as a 'normal' entry, but a special page for out-of-the-box things like this.

see it at www.coinfirm.org

You may, yes. There will only be 10 coins made this year ranging from $500 to maybe $10,000 or $20,000 each certified by a CoA. You could list the bitcoin addresses used on the CoA as a means of verifying authenticity for future buyers if someone who purchases the piece from me wishes to sell it to someone else. Each piece in the collection will have a name, and each piece will have its own design and be made from a different exotic wood.

WoodCollector, thank you for pointing this out for me. Now I have learned something new and will take it and use it going forward.

Aloha!

[OgNasty]

Beautiful.

[smoothie]

From what I gather from the photos you posted above it seems to me (from what I can see) that your piece looks more like this https://i.imgur.com/CoDNGQm.jpg than this https://i.imgur.com/CoDNGQm.jpg

If I am not mistaken it does look a bit flat from the pictures. Could you elaborate to me how it is not like the first link I pasted above?

Lasers also have the ability to go at different depths. I would imagine other more specialized lasers have the ability to move the laser in a 3-dimensional space to carve out an image like the second link you provided above.

All one would need to do is provide the 3dimensional vector image to the system and it would do something as complex as the second link.

Then again that last part I am just guessing as I have not used a 3d laser (if it exists).

[smoothie]

To date this is the (as far as I know) THE largest physical bitcoin in existence!
AWESOME!