Post #251647 by Paipo on Wed, Aug 30, 2006 3:38 PM

Thanks Loki, I posted a little about my incident in the safety thread, as well as reading the whole thing!
Cheers harro - glad I could help with your "rock". Thanks for your trip report on Rapanui, I can't get enough of that stuff.
Thanks hewey, the shot mug is coming along - see below.

A few new progress pics, one of which is a piece I posted much earlier in the thread then put aside for a while. Rarotongan basalt picked up on the beach at Ngatangiia Harbour, where legend records that the 7 canoes left for NZ in 1300 AD.

#7, Maori style piece which will have inlaid shell teeth, paua eyes and a jasper pebble tongue.

My first ever moai. I'm happy with the result considering the lack of depth I had to work with in the stone, but I'm looking forward to doing a much bolder one with a bigger pebble. It's all about the nose! This little guy is about 1 inch long, and I think he will be mounted onto the tiny shot mug I posted above. I'll then engrave a band of rongorongo around the top and bottom.