Post #438630 by Marty on Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:24 PM

Hello everybody! I've been lurking around for a while trying to learn a thing or two about tiki carving. Here is my first one. What you see on your screen is actual size(unless you have a huge screen). It started as a piece of pallet I found at work(thus the nail hole through the side). I used a pocket knife and a razor blade to carve it out and then used a red hot nail to outline everything. After that I toasted the whole thing with a torch then sanded the teeth down to the original color. I finished it off by staining it with a few coats of coffee and then rubbed it down with gun oil. I want to make a big'un so I cut down a palm tree at work that needed to come down anyway. I also included a picture of some other crap I've carved at work(on my lunch breaks). The white and yellow are railroad chalk and the black one is another piece of pallet that I blackened by holding it a few inches above a zippo so as to cover it in soot and not burn it.