Post #21519 by Basement Kahuna on Fri, Jan 31, 2003 12:36 PM

That would be me...I find chisels to be the best way for me personally. I have looked into some machines like rotozips and they make a mess and don't work (they just break bits after about a two inch line). Every experiment I've done totally with automation thus far has come out looking cheap, half-assed, or like any number of those typical, cookie cutter, four-lines- across-a-board-makes-a-tiki-face jobs that are everywhere. I find a Dremel with a flat burr to be useful for quick clean up of relief and corners, but I for one am trying to hone my chisel skills! I dig the vintage styles, and that's how those tikis were carved. Also, have you noticed that it seems like 80% of the stuff out there for sale today is of the same style (You know, the one that you see everywhere that looks more like Jimmy Carter taking a poo than a Polynesian deity?).

[ Edited by: Basement Kahuna on 2003-01-31 12:38 ]