Post #398520 by Jungle Trader on Sat, Aug 2, 2008 9:41 PM

Here's my latest, just a tad short of 5 ft. tall. As some of you know, the most prominent feature on a Moai is the nose. I started out carving away the wood on the forehead, but then I knew the features would not balance out so I switched to carving the nose deep into the cylinder shaped log of still green palmwood. Looks simple but it isn't. A lot of wood has to be removed. I think it took approximately 8 hours to get to this point. Carve on!

[ Edited by: Jungle Trader 2008-08-03 10:02 ]