Post #244662 by Howland on Mon, Jul 24, 2006 6:25 AM

LittleLostTiki, Polynesiac, Monkeyman, Gman and Conga of the north! What a fine lot of artists and craftsmen to be getting compliments from. You guys (as well as most of the ohana here) are all geniuses of skill and style and I appreciate every kind word--that's where 'drive' comes from.

Gman and Conga- I would put some of this stuff on the carving only forum, just not that advanced on the 'how to do this-n-that' here yet.

Gotta lotta stuff done again yesterday and last night. Went by the print shop yesterday morning and printed out my gable pattern full size. I printed it out on the big 'laserwriter' on sheets of screenprinters vellum (13 x 18 inches, I believe). Vellum is translucent or transparent and very durable so any pattern printed on it could be reused many times. Beats the heck out of using 8.5 x 11 printer paper from the HP deskjet like I used for the pakura fascia.

Here's '2 by teko' trying out his new perching spot. I had to clamp him up there after I built the gable frame just to get a look at the vibe I'm shootin' for. Said he flew up there...I had to fly up there and get him down. (Trivia time--where did that last sentence come from????)

Checkin' the vibe level--That's a piece of copper pipe coming out from his hands -thanks, shutterfly for the crop job. It will be the spear/harpoon. I will probably use a peice of bamboo-the pipe was just laying around.The thing that looks like it's sticking out from his arse is a clamp.

Here's the pattern on the vellum and a gable half with the transferred pattern:

Into the carve zone---leave me be and let me go--see you when I'm done!:

Got halfway done carving last night. At 12:50 am, as much as I hated to, I had to call it quits.

We'll see what kind of progress happens today as I have a few more days of
'tiki-time'