Buzzy's work: Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate - Tiki Carving

BPB Bay Park Buzzy Tiki Socialite West Bay Park, San Diego, CA Joined: Apr 07, 2006 Posts: 3066	BPB Bay Park Buzzy Posted posted on Tue, Apr 6, 2010 11:50 AM Recent Sunsets: When I carved the last drum, I had a bunch of waste pieces that I took out from between the legs. It was nice wood, but in real small strips. I milled them to usable shapes and have started carving some little pieces out of them. Here's the pile of stock And here's what I get them to before I start to carve I clean them up on a table mounted belt sander I got my job carving at the hotel again this summer, so this year I think I'll actually make some stuff so that I'll have something to sell when I'm down there. Last year, I was so busy with commissions that I really had no time to make anything to sell there. So this year, I'm going to try and have some stock. I've been carving these quick little guys from the palm scraps This is some damn hard carving! Definitaly not the basswood experience. It is kind of fun becuse of the challenges of these small pieces, but it kind of sucks because there is only so much that you can do detail wise before the wood crumbles away These guys are about 6" tall and barely sanded These guys are about 4" tall I haven't decided whether they are pendants, staues, or a combo of the two yet... They each take about 35 minutes to an hour to carve. On 2010-04-02 09:42, TheBigT wrote: That's exactly what happened to me last weekend. Spent Sat and Sun afternoon drawing the face on a new tiki. This even after planning it out on graph paper first. Sheesh... Measure twice, cut once... OR is it draw it out twenty times, and then cut once.... I'm sure there's a a good ol' days saying that's appropriate for this part of the tiki making process. I guess your tiki will only be as good as you draw it up, so that's probably important to spend a lot of time on it. It's easier to fix a pecil line than a 2" deep gash! On 2010-04-05 10:50, amate wrote: That last image is brilliantly designed and well executed. OUTSTANDING! Thanks Amate! It was all luck on this one! I'm also still doing the crappy part of a new drum today. Just squaring the ends and gridding it out for now. No pictures because it justb looks like a log with pencil marks on it. Buzzy Out!

Recent Sunsets:

When I carved the last drum, I had a bunch of waste pieces that I took out from between the legs. It was nice wood, but in real small strips. I milled them to usable shapes and have started carving some little pieces out of them.
Here's the pile of stock

And here's what I get them to before I start to carve

I clean them up on a table mounted belt sander

I got my job carving at the hotel again this summer, so this year I think I'll actually make some stuff so that I'll have something to sell when I'm down there. Last year, I was so busy with commissions that I really had no time to make anything to sell there. So this year, I'm going to try and have some stock.

I've been carving these quick little guys from the palm scraps This is some damn hard carving! Definitaly not the basswood experience. It is kind of fun becuse of the challenges of these small pieces, but it kind of sucks because there is only so much that you can do detail wise before the wood crumbles away

These guys are about 6" tall and barely sanded

These guys are about 4" tall

I haven't decided whether they are pendants, staues, or a combo of the two yet...
They each take about 35 minutes to an hour to carve.

On 2010-04-02 09:42, TheBigT wrote:
That's exactly what happened to me last weekend. Spent Sat and Sun afternoon drawing the face on a new tiki. This even after planning it out on graph paper first. Sheesh...

Measure twice, cut once... OR is it draw it out twenty times, and then cut once.... I'm sure there's a a good ol' days saying that's appropriate for this part of the tiki making process.
I guess your tiki will only be as good as you draw it up, so that's probably important to spend a lot of time on it. It's easier to fix a pecil line than a 2" deep gash!

On 2010-04-05 10:50, amate wrote:
That last image is brilliantly designed and well executed. OUTSTANDING!

Thanks Amate! It was all luck on this one!

I'm also still doing the crappy part of a new drum today. Just squaring the ends and gridding it out for now. No pictures because it justb looks like a log with pencil marks on it.

Buzzy Out!

Post #522369 by Bay Park Buzzy on Tue, Apr 6, 2010 11:50 AM