Post #721955 by Rapa Nui Ron on Tue, Jul 8, 2014 10:48 AM

Last year, I had to have two trees in my front yard cut down. They were old Chinese Elm trees. I asked the men who came to do the job, to save me a couple of the logs from the the largest of the two. I let them sit a year to help remove the bark and to hopefully let the wood season a bit. I started carving my first log last month. No special plan or design, just wanted to see where we could go with this. Here's what I've got so far;

This is from June 27th, 2014.

The above image is from July 1, 2014. I used chalk to outline some ideas as I went ahead using a 16" Remington Electric Chain saw, and a reciprocating saw.

July 3rd, 2014
A 1.25" chisel was used to carve out around the eyes and relieve other tight areas of material.

July 7th, 2014
An overturned bench helps hold Tiki allowing me to get at odd angles with the chisel.

July 7th, 2014
Full frontal view of Tiki...

I plan on posting more photos as the work progresses.