Post #375843 by haikai on Thu, Apr 24, 2008 6:47 AM

Alooohaaa!

Thanks Tamapoutini and pappythesailor for your nice words on the cherry-wood KU.
That´s right, cherry-wood is normaly very hard, but it´s like butter in my gorilla hands. :)
No, I prepared my chisels very well and gave them an exact grinding. So, it works very good.
My experience is that you can work very rich in detail with such a hard wood.

Tamapoutini, oh yes, that would be cool, if my G.Grandfather was of Hawaiian bloodlines.
So I could visit him always in my holidays. :lol:

My avocado seeds/nuts update:
That´s the avocado seed with his paring. You have to abscise it.

So you get the real seed, which you can carve with a normal knife. Mostly the seed have two halves.
Here you can also see the different colors. First the seed is very light and after carving it´ll get dark parts.

Here are my latest two avocado carvings. First I´ll let them dry and than I try to grind them.
For the finish I´ll polish them with wax. I think it could be very pretty.

Here are the two fellows I carved yesterday. They don´t change their colors anymore.
But they dry in 2 - 3 days and get very hard realy like wood. That´s a cool way to carve small things.

I´m looking forward to show you the first "Original Haikai Avocado Collection" :wink:

Aloha to all of you, Kai