Post #65339 by Tiki Diablo on Wed, Dec 17, 2003 12:09 PM

The main thing about carving is to just do it. I think you are thinking about this way too much. If you are carving for yourself as practice, it really doesn't matter what type of wood you carve(I first started carving on stumps of cut trees from the green dump) because that first tiki is going to look WAY different from a tiki you carve a year from now. You are going to get frustrated, cut yourself, smash a body part, laugh and get shit in your eye. Your ears are going to ring and your back is going to hurt. People are gonna ask why are you carving this? and so on...... but at the end, you are going to sit back and get the biggest kick out of turning something out of a piece of wood that could has easily just been turned into mulch. You just have to find your own voice in carving. Good luck .