Post #306092 by hewey on Sun, May 13, 2007 4:37 PM

Yay… finally got some tiki love happening for you. The big guy is still sitting there, but I’ve still been busy.

Here’s my awesome moai swap piece hanging with my Finky pendant and my Gman pendant.

Here’s an extremely quickly done hebel/AAC tiki. Done in a couple of hours, from a square block to finish, including paint time.

Before paint. I attacked it with the corner of the chisel to give it a rough look.

After paint. Paint was sprayed (spraycan) metallic gold (real thick), then a heap of black over the still wet gold. Turned out pretty cool actually

Close up

Last weekend, I picked up some Cocos Palm logs – one of my mechanic’s mates chopped em down. Yes, my mechanic is sourcing logs for me :) This one was done for my mum for mothers day. Went for a more traditional look (than my usual stuff), more her taste.

The log

Debarked with a flat chisel

Nudey log

Sketch out a design in marker pen.

Carve out the design, take a progress shot with the dog in the way.

Fully carved out

Burn it with a butane burner!

The design section burnt. It was turned upside down to get the flame into all the areas I needed (burner doesn’t work very well upside down)

Then whip out the sander to get it a bit smoother.

To give it some more character I used a small rounded chisel (a gouge) to take back the edges, and then gave the whole surface a light burning.

Then to finish it off some details with white paint, and some marine grade varnish.