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Carvings by Louie the Fish!
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Louiethefish
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Thu, Aug 14, 2008 9:01 AM
Aloha Ya'll from sunny Honolulu! |
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Tiki Duddy
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Thu, Aug 14, 2008 9:22 AM
Incredible! |
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TheBigT
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Thu, Aug 14, 2008 11:28 AM
Haven't seen your site yet, but this is really nice stuff you posted. Let's see some more. How about some works in progress? |
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Blowfish
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Thu, Aug 14, 2008 2:41 PM
I really like your work! Welcome to TC and please keep posting photos of what you make. Much Aloha! |
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Paipo
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Thu, Aug 14, 2008 3:49 PM
Beautiful work - those hooks look deadly and fully functional! The wildlife studies are spot-on too, in particular the albatross. It sounds like you've already lived my dream or travelling the Pacific, carving as you go. Your site says you were in Pago Pago, but your profile and post say Hawaii now? |
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Thu, Aug 14, 2008 5:27 PM
Alright Louie! Ya made it to the party!!! Put your fez on and join right in! I guess Benz n' I got the password thing worked out. Sweet. |
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Tamapoutini
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Thu, Aug 14, 2008 5:32 PM
Kia ora Louie - welcome to TC! Beautiful work! No prizes for guessing how you earned your name; your fish are superb. But those green makau are what catch my eye.. Someone added a link to your carving demo on You-Tube just a week or so back & was thinking of modelling a set-up after the one you were working at. - please excuse a young pup, but you really should wear a dust-mask! Health first when teaching others.. I hope you enjoy your time at TC. Your work will be greatly admired! |
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hiltiki
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Thu, Aug 14, 2008 6:02 PM
Luiethefish, welcome to TC. Your work is amazing, so perfect with such clean lines, I love it. |
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Benzart
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Thu, Aug 14, 2008 6:07 PM
Hey Louie, |
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hewey
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Fri, Aug 15, 2008 6:10 AM
Very nice work :D |
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Louiethefish
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Sat, Aug 16, 2008 10:59 AM
Aloha Ya'll! Someone asked about carving in pearl shell. First off you'll need a decent flex shaft outfit, like a Foredom, as that stuff will wear out tools. Getting large thick pearl shells is also difficult. You want ones 5-6 inches across or bigger if you want to carve fat fish, etc, and even then you only get really thick material near the hinge. after drawing my design on a sanded surface of shell, I use a Hacksaw with those round wire blades that cut in any direction to roughly cut out the shape, allowing outside room to carve down later. I also use my cheap table band saw, with 3/8 wide blades, which wear out fast on shell. I save those blades just for shell, as they will burn bone after shell cutting. I then use my double ended grinder with a 80 grit hard sanding disc to rough out more of the shape, then move over to the Foredom, and use a large cylinder (3/16 diameter) Tungsten carbide burr, to do almost all the shaping, also using other burrs for detailing. On hooks I use the small stone cones for inside curves. You can also use the Dremel burr # 115, and other Dremel burrs like # 117, but they wear out sooner. Whatever I am doing with shell, I have a fan to my left and wear a dust mask. |
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AlienTiki
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Sat, Aug 16, 2008 2:37 PM
Welcome aboard, your work is nice and clean. Good to see more people from Hawaii on here. I bet you could make some killer lures. |
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The Sperm Whale
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Sat, Aug 16, 2008 2:39 PM
Holy Mackerel your work is amazing!! I really like the whale pendant!! I wonder why? [ Edited by: The Sperm Whale 2008-08-16 14:40 ] |
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Paipo
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Sat, Aug 16, 2008 6:11 PM
Wow...that's a very detailed process breakdown. Big thanks for the advice - I hope I can put it to use soon, and please keep posting! |
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Louiethefish
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Sun, Aug 17, 2008 10:35 AM
Aloha Allen Tiki! I have been making hook and lure replicas for over 30 years, and here are two not very good pics of two showcases I made about 5 years ago. I dont do all that many, but just finished one which will go into the National Park Office in American Samoa. The crowning lure to make in my opinion is the famous large Tongan Tuna lure, with whale bone shank, pearl shell along the bottom, and the point carved from thick, highly endangered Hawksbill Turtle side plates. I can fake one these days with cow bone, and pearl shell, and replacing the turtle shell point with Water buffalo horn in amber color if you can find it. I also found that moose antler can make big Feau-whalebone hooks. My showcases are all over the Pacific, in big hotels, airports, conference rooms, banks private homes, and even one in the American Samoa Museum! The one I just did has a copy of a Hawaiian Whalebone Shark hook collected by Captain Cook on his second voyage here, now held in the British Museum, and the original can be seen online. Way back when I could work in Whalebone, I did three Maori War clubs from the rib of a humpback whale, all three very famous pieces held in museums, including a Patu Paraoa and Kotiate from the Captain Cook collection, and a Wahaika held in the Taranaki Museum, with a tiki figure on one side. I will try to scan some old pics to post here later. Louie |
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tyger jymmy
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Sun, Aug 17, 2008 3:59 PM
those fish rock man , the Detail WOWWWWWWW . |
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Benzart
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Sun, Aug 17, 2008 7:06 PM
HERE HERE ALSO you can see Louie on YouTube Teaching some bone carving |
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Thu, Aug 21, 2008 5:20 AM
wow nice work |
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Benzart
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Mon, Sep 1, 2008 2:14 PM
BUMP, Louie? Where'd you GO? |
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Tue, Sep 2, 2008 7:06 PM
Nice! |
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benella
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Tue, Sep 2, 2008 11:24 PM
WOW ! |
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AlienTiki
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Sun, Sep 7, 2008 11:27 AM
He must be "Gone fishing". |
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