Post #520603 by TikiMango on Sun, Mar 28, 2010 2:25 PM

Tiki 65, thank you. I look forward to chatting it up with you as well. Less than 2.5 months to go!

4WDtiki, feel free to borrow, but I want it back. :) I think I've seen the spirals on mugs and a few other things. Clarita's bamboo carvings come to mind.

MooneyTiki, thanks! I'll PM you to see if we can't find some free time while you're here.

Surfintiki, I'm doing the same as you my friend, push and push and maybe get lucky in that the blade will scratch the bone. I've experimented with fine, medium, and coarse, broken all of them! I think now I am using a medium blade for wood, and giving myself plenty of space to sand down with a drum sander on the Dremel.

TikiG, just couldn't sleep. I made up for it this morning though, didn't get out of bed till 7:30am... wasted the whole day.

Crazt Al, thanks for cruizin' by.

Another hook out of the shop. This one was really challenging, as I ended up having to use mostly files and a ton of hand sanding. I always hand sand, but this required heap big more. I wanted something that looked like a hook, but not really like a hook. I'm not sure what I ended up with, as it looks sort of scorpion-ish or exoskeletal, or like something molting or sheading. So, be careful when you get a design in your brain, as sometimes the design doesn't allow for great tool angles. Anyways...

Front-side of the hook.

The design demanded that I treat the back the same. What a needy front-side.

I undercut some of the joint/folds/sections. The really deep ones are at teh bottom and at the very top.

For scale.