Post #455404 by Bay Park Buzzy on Thu, May 21, 2009 11:44 AM

A recent sunset:

When I left you guys last, I was just about to carve the details on the two drum looking tables. I'll start with my progress on those, and then mention other projects I've been working on since my last post.

I started by carving the legs.

Then I carved the rest:

Johnny came by to do some carving too:

Sneak preview of Johnny's NuKu:

After carving the first table, it was second table carving time:

Ringo and Kiva kept me company while I was working on it:

After a visit from a good friend of mine, and spontaneous reunion of old coworkers, I got the table finished:

Here they are all carved up, waiting to be sanded:

After many hours of sanding, I stained them and painted the drum heads

Next step is some rope wrapping

In between all that, I was also working at the factory on my CocojoesBrady Bunch Ripoff idols

We're adding a second shift to meet the intense world wide demand

Another project I was called upon to do was pendants for a party coming up soon.
Here they are in the early carving stages, while still in the siamese twin phase

OOoops! I meant the conjoined tikis phase.

They were deconjoined and then sanded.The next step was to burn in the face tattoos. Here's my burning setup with a Brady Bunch idol looking over me to tempt fate:

Now burned:

And with some stain:

The pair

They match the two big Maori guys I did last month

The pair, all ready for for molding...

and now waiting under the mold material:

I'll be back to answer the last couple days worth of comments in a little bit. I need to clean up some of the mess I made while doing all this stuff over the last few days.
Buzzy Out!