Post #260308 by Tiki Lee's on Thu, Oct 12, 2006 12:11 AM

Aloha Coon Tiki Bretheren, and everyone else as well!

For the past few weeks, I've been spending my break time at work trying my darnedest to successfully do another hook-knife carving like we did at Coon Tiki. I realized that I was forgetting all the great stuff Ben taught us, so I thought I'd better start hookin' again!

The first two attempts were unsuccessful. I kept messing things up, or the wood would shred the wrong way, or a cut would "take off" across the face of it and ruin the dang thing. Well, they say that third time's a charm, and I finally finished this one to a tolerable degree of "yeah, I guess it's o.k.". Here it is:

Gee, can ya guess what my inspiration was? :P

I had a really nice ageing going on, but then I sprayed it with lemon oil, and all my subtle "wear shading" vanished. Maybe if I dry it out in the sun, I can wear it down again. After that, the hole gets drilled, the lanyard goes thru and then it gets slung 'round my anxiously waiting neck!

Mahaloz!