Post #144001 by Palama Tiki on Tue, Mar 1, 2005 1:20 PM

Aaron:

Thanks for the post and all your help on the AAC! Pretty amazing that you used a wood saw to rough it out.. i had been looking at stone carving sites today, and saw how they roughed out the shapes with point and tooth chisels, using a cross-hatch method to chip away the stone.
Did you use the cross-hatch method when chiseling on the AAC, or a different technique?

Thanks for the heads-up on the tool site as well; i had already bookmarked it.

Also, do you know how the AAC would take paint or stain? I'm thinking of doing a Mayan carving for my daughter, and I'd like to age the stone, but since it's so porous, i'm concerned about controlling the paint or stain application.

Thanks again to you, Aaron, and all the carvers on this site; i've been lurking for a couple weeks and decided to jump on. i have one palmwood tiki complete, and am finishing up another. These are test beds for honing whatever skills i have, then i'm going to try out a larger queen palm.

Aaron's Akua said that queen is pretty fibrous; any helpful hints on carving up a queen?

Thanks again!