Post #368689 by tok-tok on Sun, Mar 23, 2008 6:52 AM

Wow, so many replies to my last posting. i am really staggered.

seeksurf: congrats again to that really fine last one. Great stuff. Thanks for your surport. I do my very best, but it´s kinda hard to get enough detailing on these itsy bitsy branches. Some of them are less then a 1/2 inch diameter. Chisels are nearly useless for this kind of carving.

Benzart: thanks for your visit. It´s good to see you start again after your recovering. Maybe I should take some pictures of my lumberyard. I allways get some pieces here and there, unfortunately less of it is basswood. That really would make me faster.

howland: Thanks for your first stop here and the kind words.

clarita: congrats to you, too. Some great ideas you are playing around with on the tiki-billy.

mieko: nice to meet you here in my little hut. I´m glad if I could assist you in choosing some new type of wood. my advise: take the young sprouts, these are the softest. They are getting much harder when older. Like in life (uh-oh, now this sounds kinda florid).

lake surfer: the one-man-carving-factory is in the house. Thank you for your shouts. I really love you designs. Will show you now, how big the tough guy on the corner really is.

Here is the latest progress of what i did the last few days:
tough guy after a little more sanding and cleaning.

Even tough guys can sometimes be small.

group photo with monsters

these guys haven´t got there coats yet

new arrivals, willow, cherry and lilac!!!(from left to right; lilac again very hard and stubborn)

Sounds a bit like girls names.

here is a quick one made on one afternoon while I was waitig for someone to pick me up after work.
spalted birch has got a nice grain, as I personally think



Hope, I will not loose the grain after staining it a bit.

And finally the results on the cherry panel. Still in progress.

Mahalos. See you here.
tok-tok