Wendy Cevola I finished carving on 10-31-10. - Tiki Carving

D danlovestikis Grand Member (8 years) Joined: Jun 17, 2002 Posts: 9217	D danlovestikis Posted posted on Tue, Oct 12, 2010 4:00 PM This past weekend was the Sacramento Tiki Crawl. It started Friday night and ended on Sunday night. It couldn't have been better. There are tons of photos on that thread under California Events. On that thread I had fun posting my step by step creation of our Crawl mug. My first beginning to end ceramics project. I have decided that I will do the same here, step by step as I carve my very first palm log tiki. The crawl group asked what I was going to carve since the log was on our back patio throughout the event. I told them to look at the tiki in Rugby Matts' living room later that day. It's head was the right size for my log and I like the tiki so much I want to one day turn it into a mug. So here we go. I've already made errors today in copying the design, I will learn from those errors. Here are photos from when I cleaned the log last year. First time I'd used a chain saw, I leveled the ends better. This is Rugby Matts' tiki that I want to duplicate. These are the tools that I got for Christmas last year. All I needed was a friend with a spare log. Bullet gave me his, it's so good to have friends. I drew the tiki on my log with chalk. If you go wrong water takes it off and you can start over. I began at 11 am. I started to carve where ever there were lines. I made a deal with Dan, if he would always clean up the wood chips I would let him have the tiki. His motto, "Will work for Tikis". I carved for one hour washed off the chalk and then we went to lunch. Back at 1 pm I started to remove more wood. The deeper I carve the better it looked. At 3 pm I stopped to rest and to put these photos on. I love carving. I may put a different tiki on the back. This tiki was dried in the sun and so it's much harder than expected. Omar let me carve a few whacks at Oasis 09 and that wood was like butter, this one is more like a hard wood. I'll never put one in the sun before carving again. The sun also helped make lots of cracks but that's part of the charm. After I didn't hurt the tiki he was very happy! Since this is my first carving I'd love feedback and helpful hints. Thanks for looking, Wendy [ Edited by: danlovestikis 2010-10-31 17:06 ]

This past weekend was the Sacramento Tiki Crawl. It started Friday night and ended on Sunday night. It couldn't have been better. There are tons of photos on that thread under California Events. On that thread I had fun posting my step by step creation of our Crawl mug. My first beginning to end ceramics project. I have decided that I will do the same here, step by step as I carve my very first palm log tiki.

The crawl group asked what I was going to carve since the log was on our back patio throughout the event. I told them to look at the tiki in Rugby Matts' living room later that day. It's head was the right size for my log and I like the tiki so much I want to one day turn it into a mug.

So here we go. I've already made errors today in copying the design, I will learn from those errors.

Here are photos from when I cleaned the log last year.

First time I'd used a chain saw, I leveled the ends better.

This is Rugby Matts' tiki that I want to duplicate.

These are the tools that I got for Christmas last year. All I needed was a friend with a spare log. Bullet gave me his, it's so good to have friends.

I drew the tiki on my log with chalk. If you go wrong water takes it off and you can start over. I began at 11 am.

I started to carve where ever there were lines.

I made a deal with Dan, if he would always clean up the wood chips I would let him have the tiki. His motto, "Will work for Tikis".

I carved for one hour washed off the chalk and then we went to lunch.

Back at 1 pm I started to remove more wood. The deeper I carve the better it looked.

At 3 pm I stopped to rest and to put these photos on. I love carving. I may put a different tiki on the back. This tiki was dried in the sun and so it's much harder than expected. Omar let me carve a few whacks at Oasis 09 and that wood was like butter, this one is more like a hard wood. I'll never put one in the sun before carving again. The sun also helped make lots of cracks but that's part of the charm.

After I didn't hurt the tiki he was very happy!

Since this is my first carving I'd love feedback and helpful hints. Thanks for looking, Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2010-10-31 17:06 ]

Post #559367 by danlovestikis on Tue, Oct 12, 2010 4:00 PM