Post #267303 by Tamapoutini on Fri, Nov 17, 2006 3:50 AM

Wow! Thanks for the encouragement everyone. The eureka vibe must have pulled you all in? Happy to report the mojo is still flowing & caused more tikis to be born today...

Thanks Sneaky - yeah, the 'traditional' hei-tiki is well & truly burnt into my brain. I doodle them unconciously whenever I pick up a pen. Haunted almost... Finished the tiki/toki today, see below.

Benz: hope you grabbed those reject horse heads, fixed 'em up & sold them off??
Im not quite That bad & have had similar success with potential failures. Still a bit of loosening up is just what the doctor ordered. Facing each days work was becoming a bit stale.

Gman: so you guys have doing this all along and nobody told me, sheesh!
Your right though, it is a bit different with smaller stuff. I know very well the difference just a few millimeters (??somethingths of an inch??) can make... Its just time to let go a little in the roughing out stage & save the fussiness till it really needs it.

Paipo: Didnt mean to lump you into the fussy camp with me. I know your skills..!!
Re: the old timers. Ive wondered that myself; a few of those old pieces are of amazing design (covering all of the 'Elements & Principles' we learned as good children) and youve got to wonder; at which point the design was decided upon? Was the vision there from the start? These pieces took many many months to complete...

Thanks Heath!

(& Bennella for following Gman here... :lol:)

Carried on with this just for you Gman. Not that I needed much convincing.

Finished carving & ready for sanding. Shown dry...

And WD-40'ed...

I have a name for this fella but will save it for when hes finished.

Finished the latest Hei-tiki/toki today. Not bad but the stone let me down in a few places. Just teeny 'chatters' in the stone, but they ruin the purity in my eyes. I know, you guys all think that cracks/flaws are marvelous :lol: and I agree they sometimes add their thing. But when a piece of stone is SO close to being flawless those marvelous things are a real pain in the !!!!

'Jack-Hammer Buzzy'

And this little guy started. Dont quite know what to think of him myself? The plan is to have him swinging off the cord... yeah, I dunno. maybe just silly?

Done away with the doo-dah already...

Another busy tiki day!

Kei te Ngenge. TamaTheTuckered/Tired... yawn! :wink: