Post #117847 by doctiki on Sun, Oct 3, 2004 10:17 PM

Benzart an Lake Surfer,you both asked about tools and work spaces. I,m always an hour late and dollar short. Ben here are my some of my tools (yes they are the ones from costco, but I,m learing with them. My 1st palmwood carving is the backstop. It,s about 2ft. tall and 16" around.
Lake Surfer, my carving space, I share with my wifes day care. This is in our back yard.
Here is my 1st palmwood and one of the first full body, must of the wood I am using is doug fur beam cutoffs. Yes it is not pressurer treaded. The full body started as a 6x6 that I cut off the corner at 45, then hand planed round.
Most of my tikis are finished with a torch and then wirebrush to remove the ash,then I seal them with Minwax Polycrylic. Also used it on the palmwood

This last one is my other full body tiki, Moai, all four of these , are carved out of 4x4 blocks