Long time no carvings! - Tiki Carving

B Benzart Member Port Saint Lucie, Florida Joined: Jan 09, 2004 Posts: 10397	B Benzart Posted posted on Sat, Nov 10, 2007 7:54 AM I think your "Thin Man" is an Awesome looking tiki. Most tikis are WAY to Heavy and fat, Needlessly! You can ALWAYS take more off and Still have a great carving, of course you get to the point where you can't take off much more which is where you are with this guy. Use your chisels to get in there and remove the chainsaw cuts. Sanding is too difficult and burning is too Uncontrolled and you lose more real estate. The trick is to not make the deep chainsaw cut in the beginning, unless you are just doing a chainsaw piece which this is not. He really looks great!

I think your "Thin Man" is an Awesome looking tiki. Most tikis are WAY to Heavy and fat, Needlessly! You can ALWAYS take more off and Still have a great carving, of course you get to the point where you can't take off much more which is where you are with this guy. Use your chisels to get in there and remove the chainsaw cuts. Sanding is too difficult and burning is too Uncontrolled and you lose more real estate. The trick is to not make the deep chainsaw cut in the beginning, unless you are just doing a chainsaw piece which this is not.
He really looks great!

Post #343114 by Benzart on Sat, Nov 10, 2007 7:54 AM