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Skinny Dog
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Joined: Feb 13, 2006
Posts: 302
From: Long Beach Ca. /Chicago
|  Posted: 2009-06-30 3:57 pm Permalink
That is sick!
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seeksurf
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Joined: Sep 27, 2007
Posts: 2144
From: Buckley, WA
| Posted: 2009-06-30 8:51 pm Permalink
Gorgeous! you make it look like wood.
How you do that i will never know? Hard to believe is stone.
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Paipo
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Joined: Jun 22, 2006
Posts: 1886
From: Aotearoa / NZ
| Posted: 2009-07-07 8:59 pm Permalink
"Live" update:
Couldn't help myself ....
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Benzart
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Joined: Jan 09, 2004
Posts: 10306
From: Port Saint Lucie, Florida
| Posted: 2009-07-07 9:13 pm Permalink
Beautiful, Paipo, I just couldn't help myself either.
Nice!
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big daddy
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Joined: Oct 02, 2008
Posts: 325
From: houston
| Posted: 2009-07-07 10:19 pm Permalink
BE - YOU - TIF - ULLLLL.
bd
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Paipo
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Joined: Jun 22, 2006
Posts: 1886
From: Aotearoa / NZ
| Posted: 2009-07-09 10:44 pm Permalink
Grapa, Jen, seeks, Ben, big daddy - thanks! I have a few tricks up my sleeve to get that soft finish, mostly it comes from slow, careful and painstaking clean-up. The level of detail in the form of these last two meant that it took days instead of hours this time. As always, feel is as important as the way it looks, and the idea is for the unworked natural surface to be indistinguishable from the carved areas.
So, yeah, I went back on my word (again!) and took Kae back to the bench for eye surgery. I loved the stone band that made the "pupil" as it was, but on this style of tiki you have to follow through the whole way, and it just looked unfinished with that big blank area. Yet another session, more hours added to the massive tally, but this time....IT IS DONE! *phewwwwww*
I thought I'd better downscale my next project,as my patience for mega-tikis has well and truly run out for the time being. Started this little fella which is a remake of an earlier design, but he ended up taking ages too! I can't win! I couldn't get a good pic of this one no matter how many I took - trust me, it looks much better in person. The stone is very dark, more or less black, with a slight metallic tint. Guessing it's composed of some type of very hard mineral sand. During the roughout it was virtually impossible to see what I was doing with the water on it, along with it being extremely hard, so the cutting was slow. What was meant to be quick and easy became challenging and time-consuming.
The tongue is a natural jade pebble - here is a shot of it in situ before I picked it up :
The big argillite pebble Kae is carved from was picked up on the same walk, and possibly the black stone above too! (Gets a little hard to remember when you have thousands of 'em lying around).
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Lake Surfer
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Joined: Oct 21, 2002
Posts: 3308
From: Milwaukee, WI
| Posted: 2009-07-10 01:37 am Permalink
You keep topping yourself, Rhys.
Freakin beautiful work!
So smooth, so clean... so, so good.
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PalmCityTiki
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Joined: Jun 15, 2005
Posts: 229
From: Palm City, Florida ( no really)
| Posted: 2009-07-10 05:08 am Permalink
wow....just wow.....I want one.....I want to carve like you.
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big daddy
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Joined: Oct 02, 2008
Posts: 325
From: houston
| Posted: 2009-07-10 06:53 am Permalink
i second pct. wow.
bd
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little lost tiki
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Joined: Jun 12, 2006
Posts: 7457
From: Orange,CA-right near the Circle!
| Posted: 2009-07-10 08:05 am Permalink
kae
i won't lie
looks better
with the new eye!
and the jade tongue boy
looks like it was worth all the work!
Stupendous Rhys!
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Skinny Dog
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Joined: Feb 13, 2006
Posts: 302
From: Long Beach Ca. /Chicago
| Posted: 2009-07-10 09:05 am Permalink
Dude, that's sick!
I am totally in love with your carvings.
And I want to wade into those waters to pluck those beautiful pebbles. What a delightful daydream to put into my head on this Friday morning.
Thanks for this posting.
Jen
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Tiki Kupcake
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Joined: May 07, 2008
Posts: 362
From: Portland, OR
| Posted: 2009-07-10 09:12 am Permalink
Looking good!
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AlohaStation
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Joined: Sep 27, 2004
Posts: 2003
From: So FL
| Posted: 2009-07-10 10:02 am Permalink
More excellent work! I agree the inlaid eyes are much better. I really like the jade tongue design!!
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JenTiki
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Joined: Jun 16, 2006
Posts: 1817
From: An island in the bay
| Posted: 2009-07-10 10:19 am Permalink
Fabulous! Kae has such character now with the new eye!
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Meheadhunter
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Joined: Sep 27, 2007
Posts: 355
From: Wichita KS,
| Posted: 2009-07-10 11:35 pm Permalink
Your carvings are outa sight....Super nice detail and excellent symmetry!!!
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