Claq50 Two carves Finished. 04/21/11 - Tiki Carving

C claq50 Member West Palm Beach, Florida Joined: Aug 21, 2009 Posts: 123	C claq50 Posted posted on Fri, Aug 21, 2009 7:08 PM Decided to finally start my tikibar for my backyard. After working on my dads bar, i came up with a few ideas. But first things first, i needed a tiki go to watch over the work. I found a peice of coconut palm truck and decided to take a try at it. HEre are a few pics of the work. The wood was wet at first A little more detail Carving Done. I got a few finishing touches to do, but all in all i think pretty good for my first attempt. Cant wait to start the next. I found out that coconut wood seems to splinter very easy when carving and is very hard to do any fine detail work to it. Any recomendations for what wood i should look for. ] [ Edited by: claq50 2011-03-04 16:53 ] [ Edited by: claq50 2011-04-21 05:36 ]

Decided to finally start my tikibar for my backyard. After working on my dads bar, i came up with a few ideas. But first things first, i needed a tiki go to watch over the work. I found a peice of coconut palm truck and decided to take a try at it. HEre are a few pics of the work.
The wood was wet at first

A little more detail

Carving Done. I got a few finishing touches to do, but all in all i think pretty good for my first attempt.

Cant wait to start the next. I found out that coconut wood seems to splinter very easy when carving and is very hard to do any fine detail work to it. Any recomendations for what wood i should look for.

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[ Edited by: claq50 2011-03-04 16:53 ]

[ Edited by: claq50 2011-04-21 05:36 ]

Post #478670 by claq50 on Fri, Aug 21, 2009 7:08 PM