He definitely has patience. Check out these wood pieces by Chicago-based artist Sighn:
A member of the Multi Polar Projects art collective, Sighn has a passion for both typography and wood, and he's now embarked on "What Wood You Say," a project where he sells your words back to you in wooden form; which is to say, you send him a 50-character-minimum phrase, and he carves it out for you in basswood at five bucks per character. It's all part of his larger ITSOK project:
[Sighn's] life's focus is on a potentially impossible feat, a hand cut 'limited' edition of 1 million. A John Henry vs. The Machine type quest. The end result of this 50 year venture will result in a piece entitled: one million times it's ok.
Check out some of the WWYS samples on his Flickr.
via coolhunting