tok-tok, German tiki thing. News + pics on pg. 7+8 - Tiki Carving

T tok-tok Member North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Joined: Oct 17, 2007 Posts: 148	T tok-tok Posted posted on Mon, Mar 17, 2008 12:07 PM Aloha once again, the time intervals in my replies are getting a bit long at the moment, as I just recognized. Too much on the road from here to there and back. seeksurf: Thank you for the kind words, the carvings had to be ready in time to send them to the surfbeat show. Quite stressful but fun, too. I really did not see the one benjamin was carving till I got mine ready. Happened by accident, that we were doing nearly the same concept. His one has got the finer limbs. benella: Thank you, too. Glad you like what I´m planning. As luck would have it... . hewey: Thanks, man. It is quit new too me to make a hangable panel without a frame. Sorry that I could not make it to the first swap of the year, I guess I take part on a later one. Too much work. I didn´t find the time to progress the mentioned panel, there was a slight crack where the headdress will we. I found that quit disturbing and put a bit of glue in there to prefend further cracking. Only carved a bit of the feet and body in the meantime. What I found quit interessing the last 2 weeks was carving something out of different types of twigs. Just to get a feeling for making some pendants. I used cherry wood (not as hard as I thought), apple ( awfully hard, even when thin), birch (ok, even when spalted, but not too much), willow(nice and soft), oak(hard)and some logs of unknown origin which has been found at the roadside(quit hard but ok :) ). My thumbs did hurt a lot cause Only knives wheres utilized for the following results. I used my woodburning station on all of them and the results are quite satisfactory to me. The usual suspects I started brushing them with light stain (hazlenut) but did not manage to take pictures of the end results. Within the next days I´ll put some clear varnish or maybe shellac on them to see, how the grain will become apparent. Speaking of willow, here is one I carved out of a little branch using knives AND chisels. Willow is quite simular to basswood but the wood fibers are more stubborn. They will stand up every now and then and are not very easy to cut. But with a piece of sanding paper one is able to kill them. I will post some more pictures of the bunch within the next days. Promised. Mahalos. tok-tok

Aloha once again,

the time intervals in my replies are getting a bit long at the moment, as I just recognized. Too much on the road from here to there and back.

seeksurf: Thank you for the kind words, the carvings had to be ready in time to send them to the surfbeat show. Quite stressful but fun, too. I really did not see the one benjamin was carving till I got mine ready. Happened by accident, that we were doing nearly the same concept. His one has got the finer limbs.

benella: Thank you, too. Glad you like what I´m planning. As luck would have it... .

hewey: Thanks, man. It is quit new too me to make a hangable panel without a frame. Sorry that I could not make it to the first swap of the year, I guess I take part on a later one. Too much work.

I didn´t find the time to progress the mentioned panel, there was a slight crack where the headdress will we. I found that quit disturbing and put a bit of glue in there to prefend further cracking. Only carved a bit of the feet and body in the meantime.

What I found quit interessing the last 2 weeks was carving something out of different types of twigs. Just to get a feeling for making some pendants.
I used cherry wood (not as hard as I thought), apple ( awfully hard, even when thin), birch (ok, even when spalted, but not too much), willow(nice and soft), oak(hard)and some logs of unknown origin which has been found at the roadside(quit hard but ok :) ). My thumbs did hurt a lot cause Only knives wheres utilized for the following results.

I used my woodburning station on all of them and the results are quite satisfactory to me.

The usual suspects

I started brushing them with light stain (hazlenut) but did not manage to take pictures of the end results.

Within the next days I´ll put some clear varnish or maybe shellac on them to see, how the grain will become apparent.

Speaking of willow, here is one I carved out of a little branch using knives AND chisels. Willow is quite simular to basswood but the wood fibers are more stubborn. They will stand up every now and then and are not very easy to cut. But with a piece of sanding paper one is able to kill them.

I will post some more pictures of the bunch within the next days. Promised.
Mahalos. tok-tok

Post #367432 by tok-tok on Mon, Mar 17, 2008 12:07 PM