Post #119363 by AlohaStation on Wed, Oct 13, 2004 8:34 AM

From death comes life!

Here is my first attempt at carving. I started off with clay and once I got the fever I dove dove into a piece of ficus that I had gotten from one of the many trees down around my house. I sealed the ends and let it sit for a few weeks as I worked in ceramics.

But the tiki fever caught hold and I started on on the logs. Ficus has a thin, very moist bark - but once you get the skin off the meat of the wood is great for carving. There was mold starting to grow under the bark at each end - is this normal?

It took me about 6 hours to get this point. But it was mostly practice with the different chisels and gouges.

The next ste will be playing with the dremel. As I am still trying to figure out all of these tools. What a blast!! I will post more pictures when I have time to get back at it.

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