My first pieces . . . and pekapeka updates - Tiki Carving

K kiwishaman Member Aotearoa Joined: May 31, 2007 Posts: 212	K kiwishaman Posted posted on Mon, Jul 14, 2008 9:20 PM Ty Tama for your high praise. being aware that it would not be as simple as it looked, i took my time with that one. And wanting to be sure i could do it again . . . i grabbed a piece of the shitty so called aussie (mud) jade, and had a go at it. Four hours of scritchy scratchy later - hard to seal the stone properly. Today i went for a drive to visit a jadey that lives a little over an hour away, and came home with these beauties . . . a piece of rock that has some pretty colour thru it ????inunga streak???? another piece with nice colour and the prize of the day i just wanna go slabbing now lol . . . may have to wait till the weekend. catch ya'll later KS

Ty Tama for your high praise.
being aware that it would not be as simple as it looked, i took my time with that one.

And wanting to be sure i could do it again . . . i grabbed a piece of the shitty so called aussie (mud) jade, and had a go at it. Four hours of scritchy scratchy later - hard to seal the stone properly.

Today i went for a drive to visit a jadey that lives a little over an hour away, and came home with these beauties . . .

a piece of rock that has some pretty colour thru it ????inunga streak????

another piece with nice colour

and the prize of the day

i just wanna go slabbing now lol . . . may have to wait till the weekend.

catch ya'll later

Post #393981 by kiwishaman on Mon, Jul 14, 2008 9:20 PM