Post #238843 by Howland on Tue, Jun 20, 2006 9:25 PM

While I'm here, I started this other thing- I had a 14' sabal palm in my backyard that died from to much H2o from my A/C condensation. So I was able to salvage an 8 foot hunk of it, including rootball, that I had to do something with. I had seen a pic of a really cool, simple carving w/ root-hed from the Tropics in Modesto, Ca (I think)- not sure but it seems I read that it was a Milan Guanko carving. Anyway, I thought that would be a nice accoutrement to the backyard so I thought I'd bust out a biggun' in that style. I didn't want to try anything too complicated or detailed because the log was rotten in a few places and sopping wet in some spots. Just didn't want to waste a lot of time/detail on something that might turn ugly on me.
Great log pic!

Here's a couple of pics of the style in mind. A big, looming, overgrown monster that shows no real ethnic origin or indigeonesness (SP?) to any locale-simple, yet probably strikes fear in the hearts of small children while making adults snicker and looks good with green uplighting applied. Will probably look better bamboozled on some cocktailage!

Here's the start- bustin' out some rough-out with the lancelot/grinder combo. Really nasty hunk o' wood-wet, stringy and just a tee-total mess to hack at-keepin' my ambitions low key on this one (as I do for all of them so far)