Robin's Jade Carving update 4/3 actually got one done! - Tiki Carving

R Robin Member where the road and the sky collide Joined: Jul 01, 2007 Posts: 402	R Robin Posted posted on Sat, Jan 26, 2008 1:39 PM Many many thanks to all for stopping by and for your comments,interest and support. Nice. Seeksurf, the learning experience is the best! Thanks Benjamin, Thanks. Haven't gotten to the other one as yet, but did get some vision of what I might like to try. Am in the finish something mode! Paipo, Thanks so much for your very nice comments. Those little mussels really do want to be pounamu for sure. It's hard not to want to make one the shape is so nice. Maybe you'll show us that one when you get to it. Haven't gotten to the lashing yet...currently working on the tiny face...exponentially difficult. Thanks for the :o too...those things make me laugh, and in fact, working on this guy has been kinda like that! Prairie Jade, thanks for your comment. I'm sorry I missed it too. Hopefully next year. mozzie...wow your first post. Thanks for that bit of info, I do find it interesting. I love finding out these things....weapons are form and function really personalized. I haven't had that much luck finding out those kind of details about the Maori weapons. I did learn something today (kind of off topic)...that when Europeans came to the U.S. with rifles...the kind that are loaded with powder flint etc.... when they became useless in close combat, our indigenous people turned them around and used them as clubs. They had metal on the butt of the stock, and the warriors would embed bone, flint, teeth etc along the edge...kind of like the Maori Maripi. Whew. Tama. This would be a good time to correct myself. It was a weapon called a Wahangohi that I saw that was used to extract the liver, not the Kotiate. Although it's interesting that kotiati means liver cutter. Wahangohi (from what I've found) is single lobed weapon with a kind of a hook on one side. I have also found that in Maori Wahangohi means weapon. I hope I'm right this time! Please correct me if not, and point me in the right direction. Sorry for the error. Have fun in Oz. MooneyTiki. Thank you for stopping by, and the tip about Sponge Bob. I hate to admit for various reasons that I've never seen it, but it worked anyway! Promise to be careful. Thanks again. Aloha Well this has turned into a novel. Haven't dropped or broken anything lately...knock on wood. Thank you all again. Hope to have something finished to post next time. R.

Many many thanks to all for stopping by and for your comments,interest and support. Nice.

Seeksurf, the learning experience is the best! Thanks

Benjamin, Thanks. Haven't gotten to the other one as yet, but did get some vision of what I might like to try. Am in the finish something mode!

Paipo, Thanks so much for your very nice comments. Those little mussels really do want to be pounamu for sure. It's hard not to want to make one the shape is so nice. Maybe you'll show us that one when you get to it. Haven't gotten to the lashing yet...currently working on the tiny face...exponentially difficult. Thanks for the :o too...those things make me laugh, and in fact, working on this guy has been kinda like that!

Prairie Jade, thanks for your comment. I'm sorry I missed it too. Hopefully next year.

mozzie...wow your first post. Thanks for that bit of info, I do find it interesting. I love finding out these things....weapons are form and function really personalized. I haven't had that much luck finding out those kind of details about the Maori weapons. I did learn something today (kind of off topic)...that when Europeans came to the U.S. with rifles...the kind that are loaded with powder flint etc.... when they became useless in close combat, our indigenous people turned them around and used them as clubs. They had metal on the butt of the stock, and the warriors would embed bone, flint, teeth etc along the edge...kind of like the Maori Maripi. Whew.

Tama. This would be a good time to correct myself. It was a weapon called a Wahangohi that I saw that was used to extract the liver, not the Kotiate. Although it's interesting that kotiati means liver cutter. Wahangohi (from what I've found) is single lobed weapon with a kind of a hook on one side. I have also found that in Maori Wahangohi means weapon. I hope I'm right this time! Please correct me if not, and point me in the right direction. Sorry for the error. Have fun in Oz.

MooneyTiki. Thank you for stopping by, and the tip about Sponge Bob. I hate to admit for various reasons that I've never seen it, but it worked anyway! Promise to be careful. Thanks again. Aloha

Well this has turned into a novel.

Haven't dropped or broken anything lately...knock on wood. Thank you all again. Hope to have something finished to post next time.

Post #357326 by Robin on Sat, Jan 26, 2008 1:39 PM