Post #456399 by Rainhawk on Tue, May 26, 2009 4:44 PM

Thanks Guys

I love carving wood and stone also but bone is where im at for now. Im in the process of failing my B.A in traditional maori whakairo. Wananga.
I am trained both in wananga and whare maire anyway. Mostly I was inspired by friends who grew up in whakairo carving and stories of how their family carved waka etc. A friend taught me some traditional maori wood whakairo and I taught him Reo. :) I was also trained how to carve stone/bone by hand.
It takes a life time to learn and i still feel like im at the start. If you have questions ill try to answer. I have alot of questions 2.

I have a edited part of a bone carving video up on you tube. Its on my homepage also... most of the carving was done with a single flat Stanly chisel thats as blunt as hell. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0cX4E_a1iA
Hopefully il post some better videos later on

[ Edited by: Rainhawk 2009-05-26 16:49 ]

[ Edited by: Rainhawk 2009-06-06 18:47 ]