Post #309288 by meech11 on Sun, May 27, 2007 1:43 PM

Well I'm fairly new to the art of Tiki, but I'm really eager to get started! I am a very talented artist but have never done any carving or sculpting, well other then with a grinder on custom car parts. So I could use some direction to get the ball rollin'! I've been looking at Flexcut's web site and heard good things about their tools, so if somebody could recomend a good starter kit that would be great! My biggest concern however is where or how to get the proper logs for carving. I am assuming Palm logs are the best, but is there anything else that may be easier to obtain from the NW? I'm in Longview, Washington so there's plenty of trees and lots of lumber mills in the area, including the grand daddy Weyerhauser. If I have to ship or order something in that's fine too! Any help would be great and thanks in advance!