Carvings from Frog Island Tikis - Tiki Carving

C cy Tiki Socialite Gresham, Oregon Joined: Mar 10, 2011 Posts: 1666	C cy Posted posted on Sun, Feb 11, 2018 3:12 PM Thanks for the encouragement Prikli, you are stuck with me and I will keep adding posts to TC! Recently I was able to procure a stash of cedar floats that have never been in the water. They sure do carve up easier than the ones that have been soaking for 30 years of their lives. The box on top have been lathed to shape, the ones on the bottom are blanks. The worst/best wood I have ever worked is eucalyptus that was a gift from MadDogMike. It's beautiful in it's complexity, color, and grain but splintery, hard, bends and turns in directions that don't make sense. After experimenting with different finishes on this chunk of purple heart I decided to make it natural and easy and painted it with tung oil over and over. I mixed a black dye into the recesses, as well as the spiders and base. Lobster buoy gets red paint. [ Edited by: cy 2018-02-11 15:28 ]

Thanks for the encouragement Prikli, you are stuck with me and I will keep adding posts to TC! Recently I was able to procure a stash of cedar floats that have never been in the water. They sure do carve up easier than the ones that have been soaking for 30 years of their lives.
The box on top have been lathed to shape, the ones on the bottom are blanks.

The worst/best wood I have ever worked is eucalyptus that was a gift from MadDogMike. It's beautiful in it's complexity, color, and grain but splintery, hard, bends and turns in directions that don't make sense.

After experimenting with different finishes on this chunk of purple heart I decided to make it natural and easy and painted it with tung oil over and over. I mixed a black dye into the recesses, as well as the spiders and base.

Lobster buoy gets red paint.

[ Edited by: cy 2018-02-11 15:28 ]

Post #783811 by cy on Sun, Feb 11, 2018 3:12 PM