Post #244901 by haikai on Tue, Jul 25, 2006 8:54 AM

Thanks Paipo! It´s a great deal with your local mason.
I think an own air compressor set up sould be very expensive, or?

If I´ll have the heart to carve anytime in stone, so I´ll let you know.
I think that´s so hard to do.

Hey GMAN, thanks for your words. I have seen the pictures from your accident at your TC post.
Shit, the cicatrice looks like you must be killed. Crazy GMAN! :o
I hope you feel now better! I have also seen your last maori pendant.
It´s a wonderful piece of work! Great, keep up the beautiful work!

In terms of the Tiki! Are you sure, you have the heart to own this guy?
He´s a real bavarian Tiki god with amazing vires.
He is very, very dangerous! After I´ll finished the Tiki I´ll part with him.

O.K. Here are my first color tests! I have squelched chalk to get white powder, red-brick to get red (orange) powder and in the end charcoal for the black powder.

Than I separately mixed the powders with a little bit of oil and stirred them accurately. I painted all three colours on a pice of wood of the same log.
The red and black color worked very well, but when you mix chalk with oil it will get dirty grey.
So, I mixed the chalk powder with water. Great, you get a realy white color but it´s difficult to coat
over the oil colores. When I´ll color the Tiki, I must omit the white sites.

After all, I need something to fix the colores, because they aspirate not complete into the wood.
But what? So, I´ll search something! Mahalo, Kai