Some new photoshop pics (with moai!) - Tiki Carving

F finkdaddy Member Wisconsin Joined: May 11, 2004 Posts: 2061	F finkdaddy Posted posted on Wed, Oct 10, 2007 6:26 PM Hey everyone, I finally finished the chord on this gal tonight. Thanks for all the kind words along the way. :) Gman! No one really put me up to it. I got the idea on a night when my wahine and I were out celebrating her birthday with some of her family at an amazingly horrible club in Milwaukee called Victors (anybody from the area would know what I'm talking about). A couple of hours earlier I had a conversation with Lake Surfer about the carving business, so I was sitting at the table in the club, turning over a lot of ideas in my head while the DJ was playing terrible dance music at dangerously high volume. Then in one magic moment, after approximately my 7th beer, I saw my wife's purse that she had left on the table. It was like all the loud music, all the choking smoke, all the 40 somethings trying to look like 20 somethings, and all the ridiculous dancing just disappeared. My world instantly became nothing except for the cartoonish drawing of a hula girl on the front of my wife's purse. I spent the whole rest of the evening trying to piece together in my head what a 2 dimensional cartoon drawing would look like in 3 dimensional wood. I started carving it the very next morning. Here she is: I have to replace my bandsaw blade this weekend, and then it's on to the next! Thanks everyone! :drink:

Hey everyone, I finally finished the chord on this gal tonight. Thanks for all the kind words along the way. :)

Gman! No one really put me up to it. I got the idea on a night when my wahine and I were out celebrating her birthday with some of her family at an amazingly horrible club in Milwaukee called Victors (anybody from the area would know what I'm talking about). A couple of hours earlier I had a conversation with Lake Surfer about the carving business, so I was sitting at the table in the club, turning over a lot of ideas in my head while the DJ was playing terrible dance music at dangerously high volume. Then in one magic moment, after approximately my 7th beer, I saw my wife's purse that she had left on the table. It was like all the loud music, all the choking smoke, all the 40 somethings trying to look like 20 somethings, and all the ridiculous dancing just disappeared. My world instantly became nothing except for the cartoonish drawing of a hula girl on the front of my wife's purse. I spent the whole rest of the evening trying to piece together in my head what a 2 dimensional cartoon drawing would look like in 3 dimensional wood. I started carving it the very next morning.

Here she is:

I have to replace my bandsaw blade this weekend, and then it's on to the next!
Thanks everyone! :drink:

Post #337764 by finkdaddy on Wed, Oct 10, 2007 6:26 PM