Post #234456 by LowKat on Mon, May 29, 2006 12:07 AM

I'm new to tiki carving but have worked with many types of wood in the construction trade.

OK, I had a 40 yr old Douglas Fir tree in front of the greenhouse in my back yard. Two winters ago we had a bad ice storm and little "ice bombs" fell from the tree and ruined the greenhouse roof. You can see the holes.

I called some local loggers and had it cut down along with another bigger diseased tree that was threatening my garage.

Had had the loggers leave me an 8 foot stump.

Yesterday I got creative and made a FrEakY tIKi.

Took a 14 hr day to carve him and another 1/2 day cleaning up the rough edges and staining it. It's the first time I've tried carving so I was extremely surprised with the results.

I have propane heat in the greenhouse and could tap into the pipe 6 feet away.... Thinking flames out the top of his head........

[ Edited by: LowKat 2012-11-26 22:35 ]