Post #138414 by Aaron's Akua on Sun, Jan 30, 2005 11:18 PM

BIG Logs indeed. Thanks, Sabu for the contribution. Seeing Barney's actual work yard adds some insight to the storefront pics shown in the BOT. That log behind him is huge!

Ben, the chainsaw tips from you, Cheeky and Kiegs were really helpful. Thanks especially for all the chainsaw links and research that you PM'd. I'm odering my new chainsaw tomorrow - The Makita UC3500 electric in-line model, well balanced, with a 14" bar. I'll also be picking up my BIG log soon, hopefully within a couple of weeks.

I've been think a lot about what to carve. The log will probably be about 20" diameter (every added inch of diameter seems to add weight exponentially). It should be a little larger than life, so probably 7 foot tall. I was kicking around the idea of doing a replica of that "Mysterious Tiki X", because it looks fairly simple. But this is going to be a pretty long carve, and should probably have some good detail, cause I don't know how many of these big tikis I'm going to do. Might as well make it count. It will probably be a Hawaiian tiki god, pretty traditional. I'll post as I go along.

BTW - Those 13 footers are all astounding.

Aloha,

Aaron

"Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness."
-Pablo Picasso

[ Edited by: Aaron's Akua on 2005-01-30 23:18 ]