Benzart 's, Last, most recent thread - Tiki Carving

B Benzart Member Port Saint Lucie, Florida Joined: Jan 09, 2004 Posts: 10397	B Benzart Posted posted on Fri, Feb 23, 2007 8:42 PM WOW, I am Really Pissed. I spent at leastthe last 45 minutes posting a reply to everyone in my thread and was down to the last line and getting ready to upload a few pic's and the Firefox disappeared and a Firefox update page came up announcing they were performing an update. The update finished in about 5 seconds and all I had left was the Windows desktop.. Very Very Unhappy. I thought only Microsoft did stuff like that.)&&%$##!+%#^(@&+_((+&SW5r 54wu9 )Thanks I Needed that. Tama "the Thrilled" Thanks for all the kind words. Benzness ? Thats a new one, Thanks again. I Think it is the Moai itself that is SO Recoganizable no matter How you butcher it up. Gather all the pictures of All the Moai you can find by different artists and even amoung the good bad and the ugly, they willAll be recognized as a Moai, so NO Magic here, just blind luck. Of course the Ancients always have their way with me and my tools so no telling How any given piece is going to turn out until the very end.However, Thanks. :) :):) Flynny, Raise the bar, Not me, again it must be those ghostly guys, the Ancients. And I'm not makin' it up either. I'm sure ALL of you have been visited by them weather you knew it or not. Ask "LittleLost Tiki" He has seen them and even has pictures: Thats Probably MY Blood from yesterday, I KNEW it was them. Thanx Flynny Hey Benny(hahaha)Very Glad to be back. Nope, didn't get no PM or mail yesterday from you. Check the "View sent messages to see who you sent MY PM to;) Haikai, Thanks for your Super kind words. No I haven't tried to carve a full Marq, I guess It's about time. Do you have any pix with good traditional detail???? Thanks again:):) GMANTheres another new word, that "benziness", where do you guyz find these things. Again I will blame the Ancients, they Love having a fun time at mine and other artists expense. I guess they are teaching in their own way but it shre is strange, Ask the LittleLost Tiki, He knows. Thanks GMAN, There IS Help available for the asking you know. I'm a Benz head too I guess. Thanks Bete, Sometimes all it takes is 2 words to make someone really happy, Thanks! Jungle Trader, Digger, And then Sometimes all one needs is ONE word to make another being happy. Thanks. HappyHappyhappy Swank. Yes, we are fortunate that our body repairs itself so much. ofcourse it all builds up and later in life(around the 60's) it comes back to haunt you. I DO have a delta Portable dust collector that I MUST start using It really works well, almost Too well. When I first got it, it ate, chewed up a pendant Almost complete. No salvagable. After that I fitted a heavy screen across his mouth to prevent that form happening again. I will check yours out for sure because a more permanennt one would get used More often, Thanks. TGap, SO SAD to hear yopu had pneumonia. Thats Not good at all, How did you get it? Tell me your story later when you feel up to it. I am So happy to hear you are getting better, that must have been pretty scary eh?? Well we Don't want ANY More of that so it's Mask and DC for you too and actually for ALL of us.. Se it's Not just the fne dust. Whe you use sandpaper, all the grit(SILICA) comes off with the dust and THAT stuff is worse than Anything. You get silicatosis or something like that. I mean dust is deadly, don't get me wrong. Greg, you take your time and get back when you can, just know we care and are glad you are here to tell the story. JP, Thanks, Glad to be back, but Mr Moai says he don't Need no Stinkin mask, He IS Dust, he Does want Me to wear one though. Thanks again JP. Tipsy, Thanks for that update and thanks for the pic of your Luau Lantern he is one tough lookin Moai, I Like him. Where is he available. cool. Thanks again for all the well wishes and kind words. I couldn't carve today because u=it was the House's turn. For those of you who have visited my home, you Had to notice the "retro" looking Cement floor in my Office. Previously I had installed Laminate floors through the house but got to My room and had to quit. Well that was a couple years ago and a few weeks age we decided it was time to fix it. I managed to stretch a 2 day job into 3 weeks and today I finished the floor and trim. Now just a couple more little additions and I can move my desk back into my office where it belongs. Here is the floor:

WOW, I am Really Pissed. I spent at leastthe last 45 minutes posting a reply to everyone in my thread and was down to the last line and getting ready to upload a few pic's and the Firefox disappeared and a Firefox update page came up announcing they were performing an update. The update finished in about 5 seconds and all I had left was the Windows desktop.. Very Very Unhappy. I thought only Microsoft did stuff like that.)&&%$##!+%#^(@&*+_((+&*SW5r 54wu9 )Thanks I Needed that.

Tama "the Thrilled" Thanks for all the kind words. Benzness ? Thats a new one, Thanks again. I Think it is the Moai itself that is SO Recoganizable no matter How you butcher it up. Gather all the pictures of All the Moai you can find by different artists and even amoung the good bad and the ugly, they willAll be recognized as a Moai, so NO Magic here, just blind luck. Of course the Ancients always have their way with me and my tools so no telling How any given piece is going to turn out until the very end.However, Thanks. :) :):)

Flynny, Raise the bar, Not me, again it must be those ghostly guys, the Ancients. And I'm not makin' it up either. I'm sure ALL of you have been visited by them weather you knew it or not. Ask "LittleLost Tiki" He has seen them and even has pictures:

Thats Probably MY Blood from yesterday, I KNEW it was them.
Thanx Flynny

Hey Benny(hahaha)Very Glad to be back. Nope, didn't get no PM or mail yesterday from you. Check the "View sent messages to see who you sent MY PM to;)

Haikai, Thanks for your Super kind words. No I haven't tried to carve a full Marq, I guess It's about time. Do you have any pix with good traditional detail???? Thanks again:):)

GMANTheres another new word, that "benziness", where do you guyz find these things. Again I will blame the Ancients, they Love having a fun time at mine and other artists expense. I guess they are teaching in their own way but it shre is strange, Ask the LittleLost Tiki, He knows. Thanks GMAN, There IS Help available for the asking you know. I'm a Benz head too I guess.

Thanks Bete, Sometimes all it takes is 2 words to make someone really happy, Thanks!

Jungle Trader, Digger, And then Sometimes all one needs is ONE word to make another being happy. Thanks.
HappyHappyhappy

Swank.
Yes, we are fortunate that our body repairs itself so much. ofcourse it all builds up and later in life(around the 60's) it comes back to haunt you. I DO have a delta Portable dust collector that I MUST start using

It really works well, almost Too well. When I first got it, it ate, chewed up a pendant Almost complete. No salvagable. After that I fitted a heavy screen across his mouth to prevent that form happening again. I will check yours out for sure because a more permanennt one would get used More often, Thanks.

TGap, SO SAD to hear yopu had pneumonia. Thats Not good at all, How did you get it? Tell me your story later when you feel up to it. I am So happy to hear you are getting better, that must have been pretty scary eh?? Well we Don't want ANY More of that so it's Mask and DC for you too and actually for ALL of us.. Se it's Not just the fne dust. Whe you use sandpaper, all the grit(SILICA) comes off with the dust and THAT stuff is worse than Anything. You get silicatosis or something like that. I mean dust is deadly, don't get me wrong.
Greg, you take your time and get back when you can, just know we care and are glad you are here to tell the story.

JP, Thanks, Glad to be back, but Mr Moai says he don't Need no Stinkin mask, He IS Dust, he Does want Me to wear one though. Thanks again JP.

Tipsy, Thanks for that update and thanks for the pic of your Luau Lantern he is one tough lookin Moai, I Like him. Where is he available. cool.

Thanks again for all the well wishes and kind words. I couldn't carve today because u=it was the House's turn. For those of you who have visited my home, you Had to notice the "retro" looking Cement floor in my Office. Previously I had installed Laminate floors through the house but got to My room and had to quit. Well that was a couple years ago and a few weeks age we decided it was time to fix it. I managed to stretch a 2 day job into 3 weeks and today I finished the floor and trim. Now just a couple more little additions and I can move my desk back into my office where it belongs.
Here is the floor:

Post #287805 by Benzart on Fri, Feb 23, 2007 8:42 PM