Tom carves all types of items and has a fun time doing it. He even incorporates his sense of humor into his work at times. Once when his mother was having heart surgery one of the doctors asked Tom to carve him a heart so he could use it to show to his clients. Tom said he would but his sense of humor jumped at the chance. Tom presented the Doctor with the carved heart a few weeks later and what the doctor saw made him laugh. There on the heart was a balloon to represent balloon surgery, a roll of tissue to show the fatty tissue on the heart, two tacks had been placed on it to show a heart-a-tack, a bridge shows where the heart had a bypass done, two veins were placed side by side to show veryclose veins (vericose veins), a scorched area shows heart burn and a bandage has been placed over a crack where the heart has suffered being broken. Both Tom and the doctor had a good laugh and Tom then presented the actual heart he had been asked to carve but the Doctor liked the broken heart so much that to this day it is the one that sits on his desk so he can show it to clients. Below are the two hearts Tom carved.