It started out as this:
After tracing, cutting and carving the design, it looked like this:
And then, after much dye, paint, brushes, toothpicks, pins and swearing....it finally looked like this: (please note, I ended up taking a few artistic liberties....such as nixing the wolves, since there was no way they'd come out right at that size...)
EDITED TO ADD:
and after some more work and sealing it....this is the final result:
