Post #385655 by Howland on Mon, Jun 9, 2008 10:15 AM

Dang it's been a long time since I posted anything here--too many pots on the fire. Well I have started back with a little bit o' carving/creating. I 'routered' out a PNG gope board for me bar. A little smaller than an actual one would be but I needed to scale it down to fit my space. Just pine then I painted it brown and added some color with some milk paints--tried to keep it true to my inspiration piece--design and color-wise.

Also started 'routering' some Maori inspired trim to finish up some areas in my bar and maybe make some frames with too.

Here's the trim pieces-about 8' by 3.5"

I also started making little spears or arrows out of wood scraps and skinny boo sticks to flank the sides of the gope and also to cross up under/around my clam shell sconce. Here's a pic of one. I found a pic on the web somewhere of a group of PNG arrows that I'm using for inspiration.

SO_after a quick trip to Hukilau gathering some inspiration, I'll get to chopping on this stash of logs I've collected over the past few months/years. Some are dry enough and some might get hacked on while semi-dry, we'll see. The one on the left is a sugarberry or hackberry tree. Never carved it but the chainsaw went through it like warm butter. To the right is a large chunk o' pine that I've already rounded the top/head on. In background is more pine and a piece of sabal palm. Out of the pic is a 6 foot by 8/4 slab of mahogany and a slab of basswood similar in size

Mahalo,
Brad