Post #417517 by 4WDtiki on Wed, Nov 5, 2008 6:53 PM

Hey thanks, guys! Glad you 'get' what I was trying for on this one. :wink:

One interesting note about this tiki, the piece of wood was cut down 4 or 5 years ago, and has been just sitting and aging outdoors, the same as the big tiki I carved last month on pg 29. Both pieces had an overall coconut brown color to the wood that I haven't seen in fan palm before. It's usually very white. I'm thinking when the wood finally dries fully all the way through, which these two pieces had, it darkens into a great mottled brown. These pictures don't capture it fully.
I've carved other pieces that had 'only' dried for 2-3 years, and it was still damp and white inside. The color and texture of the wood on the pg 29 tiki is what inspired me to try the ancient look on this one.

I have to move at the end of this month, so I doubt I'll get much carving in for a while. But, I have a line on a new place to live that will have a bigger carving area than I've had here in Oceanside! Stay tuned...