So we started with scraps! The first thing (since at the time of beginning this, January 28 2024, I didn't have access to an oven to dry clay) that I came up with to make was an instruction card, which would sit inside of the bag with the teeth until used. I'd debated whether to use a spare scrap playing card, but instead opted to use that red-backed card that came with the Dungeons and Dragons Adventurer dice, since it's red, which will work well with the... *thesaurus morbid* ghastly nature of this item lol. I figured to print out the instructions in tiny-print, and cut it out so that it's outlined in the red of that card. And then, what really kicked starting this project into gear, was finding this ugly putrid-green rag on the way back from going grocery shopping lol. It looks like it had been used to clean paint perhaps (on the backside, what will become the inside), and it was just the right kind of ugly-green colour that would work well with the macabre look that I wanted for this. Becoming vegan, I was balking at making a bag out of actual leather if it didn't come from proper indigenous sources, and being in England that was less than likely, so finding this putrid-green rag clinched starting up the page for this item. The actual item description lists it as being a leather pouch with stitched images, but that ain't happening lol, so *thesaurus putrid* decaying-green it is! It'll personalize it a bit more!
So on initial attempts to turn the entire cloth into a pouch, that was... ludicrously way too big. Also odd-shaped, which to be fair I didn't mind, but WAY too big. So we trimmed it out to a circle as large as I could make it, for the time being. I need to finish the teeth however to see how much space the whole of them will take up in there. We have however made the instruction card, which will hang on the outside of the pouch, since it was simply too large to fit inside well. I could have made a folding book, pondered it a bit, but ended up deciding against it. Just... more difficult to read kinda thing.
And the tooth-carving continues! We have finished, or more-or-less finished eight teeth in this photo, nine as I've done one more before editing this webpage after taking the shot. They mostly need to be either sanded or lightly shaved down to round out as needed, and some of them need their decorative lines carved into them (I'm looking at you, swirly-looking twisted beholder tooth), which I will do once they're coated in a layer or two of either PVA glue or nailpolish topcoat, since the wood that I found is very dry, and is prone to crumbling off if I try to take a file to it. So it'll be best to smooth out the surfaces with glue/topcoat and then carve the grooves into that.
More updates to come
Made January 28 - ???, 2024
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Aw yeah you can pull a tooth!
