Post #242159 by Bay Park Buzzy on Mon, Jul 10, 2006 10:40 PM

Tiki #30: The rubber match
Each new tiki I make, I give myself another secondary goal, aside from the design, to further develop my skills. For this one, I wanted to carve the whole thing as smooth and precise as possible, leaving as little sanding as possible to be done later.
For the design, I redid tiki #5/14, but larger, on a real good log. I wanted to also see how much better I was now, with a few tikis under my belt, than I was the first time I tried this design. I didn't use my old tiki for reference, I did this one based upon how I thought it should be. I wanted to get it right before I moved on from this design forever. I couldn't stand looking at the #5 version because of all the mistakes, version #14 was too small...
Here it goes...

Drawn out, blah, blah, blah

face finished...

next to old one

done

finished with clear


What i learned:

1. I got a little bit better since the first time I carved on a mexi fan palm.
2. I really didn't have an idea to carve when I started this one, so I spent a couple of days polishing my skills instead of waiting for inspiration. It was time well spent and I ended up with a pretty cool tiki too.

After this, I started to carve all of the time. The next one was the first one that I carved at night in my house, in my living room. I'm getting real close to catching up with where I came into Tiki Central now...