Babalu - Lapatiki 3 - The way out is the way through - Tiki Carving

B Babalu Tiki Socialite Lemon Grove Joined: Nov 19, 2006 Posts: 2518	B Babalu Posted posted on Sun, May 6, 2007 10:13 AM Just a quick update… Running into some major wood issues on trying to finish this first tiki up….Sections of the logs core and all around the base have a bad case of what TikiDav calls “SRP” (stupid rotten palmwood)…Plus the core is still green. I knew all of this when I went back to working on this guy, but went ahead with it anyway as I wanted to get a feel of my new tools. I don’t think that I can save the feet’s design in the way I had first imagined doing them. ehhhhh…no big deal….I’m going to set this one aside to dry out a bit more and move to the next. I want to try and correct some of the flaws that I saw in the first design in the next one. I would still like to combine the wood and metal down the road somehow…The combination of the two materials intrigues me. Speaking of which, I just picked this very choice log up from the house of Buzz yesterday…Thanks Buzzy!! It was cool to kick it with the Buzz Master and his incredible carving dog Kiva to watch the sunset….oh and by the way, whatever mental images that you have floating through head right now about the house of Buzz, you’re probably right on.

Just a quick update…

Running into some major wood issues on trying to finish this first tiki up….Sections of the logs core and all around the base have a bad case of what TikiDav calls “SRP” (stupid rotten palmwood)…Plus the core is still green. I knew all of this when I went back to working on this guy, but went ahead with it anyway as I wanted to get a feel of my new tools. I don’t think that I can save the feet’s design in the way I had first imagined doing them.

ehhhhh…no big deal….I’m going to set this one aside to dry out a bit more and move to the next. I want to try and correct some of the flaws that I saw in the first design in the next one. I would still like to combine the wood and metal down the road somehow…The combination of the two materials intrigues me.

Speaking of which, I just picked this very choice log up from the house of Buzz yesterday…Thanks Buzzy!! It was cool to kick it with the Buzz Master and his incredible carving dog Kiva to watch the sunset….oh and by the way, whatever mental images that you have floating through head right now about the house of Buzz, you’re probably right on.

Post #304375 by Babalu on Sun, May 6, 2007 10:13 AM