Post #320488 by Swanky on Sun, Jul 22, 2007 2:10 PM

Wow. No update since September 2005. I suck! I spent the summer of 2006 gardening instead. This year I moved and started the gardens all over, but, kept it small. Coon Tiki is coming up, and I am wanting to carve more. I bought a couple of pieces of basswood to start a new project, but I aim to finish this guy first.

Great weather here today. Cool and bright and breezy. Set the table up on the lanai and went to it.

Working on the mouth today. This is the hardest part I think, and I wanted to be working on it while I had BK and Benzart here to guide me. I mostly wanted to get the wood out of the way.


Still a bit to go.

You can see the pencil line around the mouth. That is where the teeth will be cut. I lost some chips up top. Oops. No idea wehn.

This gets tricky because I aim to clear out the area behind the teeth. I cut straight donw for now, but, I'll be clearing out that wood back there next, and then cutting the gaps between the teeth. That's when I gotta get the super glue ready!

Need to blow his nose too...