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Post #637510 by Bay Park Buzzy on Tue, May 22, 2012 11:46 PM

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Sunset:

If it hasn't been a year, then it feels like it has been a year since I carved an actual full body tiki on a full round log. It's been so long, in fact, that I think I forgot how to actually do one. I'm giving myself a quick one to do as a refresher course before I start something more sizable or labor intensive.

I started yesterday afternoon on a practice run to make sure that I could carve a certian feature onethe full body/full round log right. Since it was a body feature, I was more interested in doing that first and I broke from my normal routine and started at the bottom and worked my way up. Here it is after a couple hours of work:

Hit at it again for a couple more hours today and got the body to here:


Then I started the head and face:


That's where I left off this afternoon...

On 2012-05-08 08:59, danlovestikis wrote:
PS Buzzy those fence panels are outstanding

Thanks Wendy. I used that gate style as the basis for a split rail bamboo fence that I did too. Here are the posts:

And installed:

the Maori post sparked the idea for this bridge that I also made:

On 2012-05-05 11:42, RevBambooBen wrote:
Where art thow? Must be busy runny for Newberry Mayor.

I took the campaign munny and I runny...

Buzzy Out!