Post #465634 by Bay Park Buzzy on Mon, Jun 29, 2009 9:41 PM

Today's sunset:

It was mostly cloudy here today. Glad it wasn't hot like the weekend.

Speaking of the weekend, I spent mine producing my new pendant from the famous tv shows ripoff line

Introducing the Ripoff KCScrubs Version of the Famed Brady's Cursed tiki:

Sales info here

I also got the Waist High Moai all finished up over the weekend:

I had a log that wasn't that great lying around for the last week or so. I couldn't do much with it because it had a couple stringy parts that were not very carvable. Perfect for a log drawing tiki. I crammed a tiki in between the dead spots and hoped for the best.

I started this pretty late in the day. I planned on carving real fast and finishing by sunset. Behind the carving stand, the sun sets my pace:

hand roughed out with a big v chisel:

sanded with an angle grinder and then parts were deepened by hand again, details added, and resanded with the angle grinder again

BURNT!

I saw that Burnt guy from American Hot Rod on some other car show. On the episode I saw, he quit because he couldn't get parts. Then they fired the parts guy.

Sanded. I noticed after this picture was taken that the chin cleft was off, so I fixed it, re BURNT a couple spots and then resanded it, twice. First time with an angle grinder and then with a quarter sheet sander

All done and the sun just hitting the clouds:

A few minutes later, the sunset turned to this:

On 2009-06-26 05:18, 4WDtiki wrote:
This picture seems vaguely obsene and reminds me of the 70's.

you'll be happy to know I brought it up close to modern day standards:

On 2009-06-29 00:52, kingstiedye wrote:
wow, the tikiyaki drum is beautiful and functional! you are my hero, buzzy. also, i just found your career retrospective in the test thread. that's an amazing portfolio!

thanks Bullet! Good to see you around these parts again. It's going to fun having you over here as a guest at the House of Buzz someday.
You can easily find that portfolio thread by clicking on that Jonesey sculpture of me in my signature:

Sometimes I broadcast live when I'm carving at night and you can find that site by clicking on the camera:

I think I'll put on my new DVD of Waiting and do some night carving on the small drum.
But first, I eat!
Buzzy Out!