Post #303109 by Sneakytiki on Mon, Apr 30, 2007 6:35 PM

Time to start fresh with a new thread.

Here is what a few hours with the B and D rotary tool yielded using a cone shaped grinding tool and a sand paper cylinder that came with the tool. Much smoother. I couldn't wait to buy my shopping list items so I used what I had. I'm posting to show that I at least improved the piece a bit. I'll buy some more tools before I start the next one. I picked up a small piece of basswood (thanks alohasta.) and retired my "3rd" carving until further notice. I guess I've got my "box" of (1) now. Any tips appreciated. I'm trying to use search first rather than ask any questions.

My 8 year old daughter came in my office wearing a paper tiki necklace. I complimented her on it and she said "I'm wearing this because I don't have a "real one". I asked her if she wanted me to carve her one, "uh huh!" she said. I told her that she could wear one but she'd have to share with her sister or she could opt to wait for me to carve another one. She said "I want my own." Man that kid cracks me up, she was really sweet the whole time and she's so honest. I gave her a coco-joes Moai necklace with green gem eyes and the oval mouth as a placebo. She's pretty happy about that but she told me that it was still mine and she was gonna give it back as soon as I make her one. So I've got three important commisions to do for the 13 yr old, 8 year old and fiance' now. Too bad they don't know I'm going to charge...kidding.

Here are the before rotary pix for comparison.

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Here are a few "after" pix of the upside down warrior/moai-makau-hei-tiki after using the rotary.

I put 8 ft tiki's kava kava in there so I could show him off and kill 2 birds with one stone.

There is a bit of dialogue i caught while photographing the above pic. Kava kava was saying "You look like hell man, what happened to you?" the Moai replied "Man, I just got my ass chewed by one of Grog's "Bitches". Har har har....

Here they are with the rest of the spoon:

I threw Ku in the last pic. so he's in this thread too. I'm leaving him as is with rough tool marks.

Any suggestions welcome.

Thanks for stopping by,

S
T

[ Edited by: Sneakytiki 2007-04-30 18:45 ]

[ Edited by: sneakytiki 2007-05-02 15:04 ]