Post #252912 by Tamapoutini on Thu, Sep 7, 2006 2:13 PM

Ahhh, I am really enjoying my new morning routine. Waking up to see/hear what has been going on at TC!!

Cheers T.Jones, GMan. Tipsy, thanks for the sales pitch!

Surfintiki: Not a lot of wood chipping to my name, a few false-starts in the past though. Threw most of my efforts when we moved house earlier this year, no tragedy...
The large 'mask' kindly supplied by Paipo was indeed hollowed out with a hand-held stone adze, but it was pretty mushy wood back there... (bit of a cheapskate wedding gift, eh? God knows what Mrs P thought of it, haha) Found very heavy/waterlogged floating in the tide & carried the bugger for about 1/2 mile to my car... Still a total amateur in that carving arena!

Benz: Cant wait to see your Hei-tiki!! Mexican stone would be great! A meso-American tiki? As for the geneology, Im sure it is a lot easier living in a small country. The 'six degrees of separation' is only 2 or 3 down here, doesnt matter where you go, you can always find someone-who-knows-someone...

P.Drake: Yeah, that book does leave a bit to be desired. I have it too & still havent figured out that heavy binding technique (on cover). Now here's a true story... About 5 years ago I was lucky enough to spend an evening rubbing shoulders with some of NZs Great jade carvers at an exhibition dinner (oh yeah, Paipo was there!) & had a good chat with the author, Steve Myhre (I think he is based in Sweden nowdays?). Apparently that book holds the auspicious record of being the most STOLEN book from the (capital city) Wellington Public Library!! Now, what does that say about carvers?!haha

Will try to have some more of the step-by-step done today... TTT :)

[ Edited by: Tamapoutini 2006-09-07 14:17 ]