Post #363930 by Cammo on Wed, Feb 27, 2008 10:03 PM

Raymond - Who'da thought that greasy guy next to me 18 years ago complaining about how hard telephone poles are to carve and selling woodchips out of paper bags for 5 bucks a pop would some day go on to carve amazoid pieces like you're doing now????

Benz - This carve the basic shapes, then stain dark, then carve again thing is really fun. I was going to paint the face with that primitive 'milk paint' look that Maikai is doing on his ultra-cool leetle itsy bitsy Tiki diorama box he's making, BUT the natural palm wood looked so nice when it popped out I'm going with that.

And those straight parts are done with a Japanese backsaw, but the fronts are all just a straight 1/2" super-sharp chisel. African carvers loved to show off by doing flat planes - they got them mostly with adze hacking, holy crap!

And since nobody 'chipped in' about the finishing coat, I'm going gloss. Real smooth, sandpapered between coats glossy glosserama.