Post #185279 by Tikiwahine on Thu, Sep 8, 2005 10:02 AM

This thread sparked a memory, and I confirmed it last night.

When my Dad was about 14(1959) he carved a face into a coconut. It was in my Grandma's basement until she died in 1998. It disappeared after that.

He's talked about it a few times since then, he really regrets not rescuing it sooner. I was asking him about it last night, he said he used it for target practice. He would make pea shooters and thwack the coconut head with little BBs. He apparently carved quite an evil face into it.

He said that he bought the coconut with all the fibers around it, but they were brown and dried out instead of being fresh. He said it was quite easy to carve.

I saw it once about 15 years ago when poking around in Grandma's basement.