Post #512046 by Bay Park Buzzy on Fri, Feb 19, 2010 3:57 PM

Yesterday's sunset:

It actually ended up being suny yesterday. i worked outside most of the day to celebrate. today is much colder and cloudy.

On 2010-02-18 09:38, TheBigT wrote:
I'll have to re-read your destructions so I can understand where the pitfalls are that you mentioned. I saw lots of pencil lines, angled ones.... and then my eyes glazed over. :lol:

Here, I'll save you the trouble with one picture of just a couple angled pencil lines:

The left was where I got offline originally from where I should have been.It should have been a straight line, not the hourglass curvy line it is now. The right side was correct when I first carved it, but I had to mess it up to match the messed up left. In the above picture, the right side was just eyeballed to make it match the left. I still have a bit more to take off that side. Those lines on there help me match the curve of the left to the curve of the right side when I carve it. Before I did my final corrections, I snapped that picture to show how off each were. Since then, I carved the problems away, and in the end, it all turned out fine...

As you will see from this new Tiki Update:

First step was to move the arms back a bit. I left extra on the back of the arms when I rough carved it, just in case. That way, I could move them back by cutting off the front of them, or keep them forward by cutting off some of the back. When I looked at it, it seemed they were a little forward..

so off with about an inch on the arm's front:

Looks the same from the front:

Next I did the arm cut throughs. I started on the front

Moving down to the legs now, I take out stuff to make a space between them.

I also rounded out the upped thighs

the space is just a wedge with rounded edges.

I'll do the same with the feet

So they will end up looking like this:

After this, it was the biggest pain in the butt part, the cut between the legs. I used small Stubai "U" to do it. It's about 3/16" wide. It took forever. In the end, it looks just like a skinny chainsaw cut.

Here it is done:

Ass side:

Here's the whole guy as he stands now:

I just have the eyes, nostrils, and arms to do

I like it so far...

Poki update:

Poki wants everyone to know she's been keeping herself real busy and having a lot of fun.

She's been playing with pepper seeds that fall out of the tree:

And trying to chew a tiki out of a stick that fell out of a different tree:

And when she feels tired, she takes a little nap:

On 2010-02-17 20:51, leleliz wrote:
puppy is super cute! oh and those carves aint bad either :wink:

At least the novelty of the puppy hasn't worn off yet!

On 2010-02-18 09:38, TheBigT wrote:
Oh, I didn't realize you were up on a hill! Cool.

This shot is from an island half way across the bay looking east towards my house. I'm global warming safe up on the hill, but probably not big tsunami safe.

Those mobile homes in the foreground are on a peninsula. There's another body of water between them and the hill I'm on.

that picture's from the tiki island takeover post It shows a little more of the bay out in back of my house

On 2010-02-18 09:54, The Sperm Whale wrote:
I am liking the new Tiki alot!! I really like the big round eyes!!

thanks Spermy! Those round eyes are in response to the proliferation a small asian eyed Bali import tikis. Long live the Round Eyes! I'm glad I pulled off the body so far too. It's got a nice presence to it in person.

hopefully I'll wrap this tiki up this evening.
Buzzy Out!

[ Edited by: Bay Park Buzzy 2010-02-19 16:01 ]