Post #642714 by pjc5150 on Tue, Jul 3, 2012 8:07 PM

thanks T. Gonna try to go finish him up here after the 4th...

so, I'm a few hours into this piece of douglas fir, and I just have to admit, I am so relieved. For some reason, after pretty much working with palm for a few years,and having a mostly frustrating experience chiseling cedar (and or should I say BREAKING cedar), I was thinking that I was never going to be any good with hardwoods and would always just be a guy who made palm tikis with a chainsaw and an angle grinder (which isn't a bad thing, but once you've done that for a few years you start wondering what else is out there). And that perceived limitation kinda sucked because I have developed quite a fondness for stuff made of hardwood as I've sunk deeper into tiki-dom. The richness of the color, grain, finish, it's longevity, etc.

But this piece is my first attempt at chiseling a hardwood since the cedar debacle, and it's going way better than I thought it would. I feel like I'm kinda starting to get it. I really looooove the lack of "stringy-ness" that palm always has. So anyway, my first hardwood tiki is halfway there. Next is the head.

[ Edited by: pjc5150 2012-07-03 20:08 ]