Post #285199 by Bowana on Mon, Feb 12, 2007 8:42 PM

:) Thanks so much Mieko, Clarita, Squid, Babalu, Surfintiki, Sneakytiki, Aaron, JohnnyP, VonTiki, greentikipat, Polynesiac, and tikigap for visiting!

Your comments are are all very well received! :blush:

You Tiki Cats N' Kittens are rock stars too!

A friend of mine who is in a Polynesian dance group had two 17" pieces of palm wood that were to be made into matching drums to be used for their dances. She told me that the carver attempted to make a drum from one of the logs but failed, and stated that the wood was cursed. My friend then offered the other log to me to make whatever I wanted with it.

Hmmm..........One of a pair of cursed palm wood logs offerd to me by a Polynesian dancer? With a pedigree like that, how could I say anything but "Bring it!"

Here are some progress shots of a Moai I'm carving from said cursed log. I'm finding that it's a very difficult piece to work with. It's got some areas that carve like "budda", and others that carve like-well, something worse.

Much of the wood is splintery and wants to fall apart. I had to limit the use of the chainsaw to just very basic blocking out because it was really chewing it up. The rest was done with chisels. I'm starting to think that maybe there is some truth in the wood being cursed! Dang rotting wood!

I'm afraid I may have to abandon this one, which breaks my heart because no Tiki should ever have to be left unfinished. :cry:

On the plus side, on deck would be the carving of the AAC block courtesy of Aaron's Akua and Mieko

Thanks again for your visit!