Post #203793 by GMAN on Mon, Dec 19, 2005 5:08 PM

Conga, Raffer, Doubravsky, Surfintiki, Benz, Loki, and JP,

Thanks for commenting on the Maori. He doesn't look like much now, but he'll start looking better over the next week or so. I just wanted to get the basic shape out so I could think about where I want to take him. The cedar is so irregular in shape that I really need to think about how to use it to my benefit. So far so good.

JP,

I have had no problems with neighbors complaining about noise. More often they come over to see what I'm carving. Most of them think my stuff is pretty cool. My one neighbor has like 5 of my tikis. I run the saw for 4 - 5 hours sometimes, but no one seems to mind (much).

As for the octopus, no can do my man. My gyotaku has a much larger profit margin than my carvings, so when someone wants a rubbing I have in stock, I stop everything. If they want something special/custom I get on it fast. If you keep your clients happy, they keep coming back. At least 50 percent of my business is return clients. Here's some of what I did today.

-Gman

"The saw is family"

[ Edited by: GMAN 2005-12-19 17:11 ]