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benella
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Joined: Sep 27, 2006
Posts: 1423
From: Meudon, France
|  Posted: 2009-10-12 03:32 am Permalink
Last update is already old, Sir B. 
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nomolos
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Joined: Jul 30, 2009
Posts: 113 | Posted: 2009-10-12 04:53 am Permalink
Maybe no inlay is the answer it looks fantastic without the eyes. Will the bone take a little black marking with some permanent marker or paint if so a black horizontal line accross the middle of the eyes may work
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nomolos
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Joined: Jul 30, 2009
Posts: 113 | Posted: 2009-10-12 05:04 am Permalink
like this?
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BIG tiki scott
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Joined: Sep 18, 2009
Posts: 373
From: lehigh acres florida
| Posted: 2009-10-12 06:07 am Permalink
WOW!! this is realy a killer piece!! the detail is AMAZING!! and i like the black in the eyes if i may say so.
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Mr. Pupu Pants
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Joined: Mar 06, 2008
Posts: 332
From: Edmonds, WA
| Posted: 2009-10-12 2:24 pm Permalink
Is it me, or does that amazing carving look just a little like a scary, undead version of Bamboo Ben?
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surfintiki
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Joined: Sep 30, 2004
Posts: 1561
From: S. Chatham, MA
| Posted: 2009-10-12 5:58 pm Permalink
Bamboooo Ben!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Benzart
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Joined: Jan 09, 2004
Posts: 10306
From: Port Saint Lucie, Florida
| Posted: 2009-10-13 08:04 am Permalink
Big Thanks big daddy, Appreciate the kind words.
T Mango, you too, no he won't win.
Big T, Thanks, ya, really TOO big for peepers, gotta go
Thanks Aloha, glad that trick helped, it works for me a lot and saves Lots of time on my hands and knees searching for that tiny piece that Always is impossible to find until After you've made a replacement! 
Ben, Ya' Think? Thanks Yes.
Nomolos, thanks you could be right but here is the next step. Paua with concave grinding,
Thanks Big Tiki Scott, appreciate that and the black may be the best answer.
Hey Mr Pupu Pants, how'd you Know! That was supposed to be Secret
Surfin, Yep, Maybeee??!
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TheBigT
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 1155
From: Fabulous Houston
| Posted: 2009-10-13 08:44 am Permalink
Aha! See? Do we have to say this is amazing?  Is that mother of pearl? Super nice. How in the world did you get such a realistic looking tongue to go all the way to the back of the mouth?! 
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domin
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Joined: Jul 16, 2009
Posts: 18 | Posted: 2009-10-13 08:53 am Permalink
oh these look much better, i think the green was a little hash of a contrast for my taste anyway even if they had been perfectly shaped, and the rest of it is just amazing
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BIG tiki scott
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Joined: Sep 18, 2009
Posts: 373
From: lehigh acres florida
| Posted: 2009-10-13 6:43 pm Permalink
thats the trick!! perfect! cheers!
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Benzart
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From: Port Saint Lucie, Florida
| Posted: 2009-10-13 8:16 pm Permalink
Thanks The Big T and you too Domin and Aslo you Big TikiScott,
I appreciate all you guys support it's been great and even inspiring. 'I have a birts-eye maple Maori guy I started on back a ways and I've been working on him the past few days and he is coming down the home stretch so I figured I should shoots a couple pix and give him a show!4mb.
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TikiMango
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Joined: Jun 17, 2008
Posts: 798
From: Satellite Beach, FL
| Posted: 2009-10-13 8:18 pm Permalink
The paua shell really gives this guy a ghostly quality, perfect for this time of year! Awesome and perfect as usual.
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laojia
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Joined: Feb 04, 2009
Posts: 917
From: Metz Lorraine France
| Posted: 2009-10-13 9:01 pm Permalink
WOW! You have given life to him with his eyes shell...
And the last one: so realistic! Another little hunk of wood who promising.
Cheers sensei carver!
J.
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seagoat
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Joined: Dec 28, 2007
Posts: 170
From: Long Beach, CA
| Posted: 2009-10-14 11:42 am Permalink
Astounding as always. Great tusk and new Maori guy. Thanks for posting your progress pics along with the finals. Great work and keep at it. And I know I'm late to the game here (I look but don't log on very often) but congrats/thanks for the Tiki Mag profile.
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Benzart
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Joined: Jan 09, 2004
Posts: 10306
From: Port Saint Lucie, Florida
| Posted: 2009-10-14 9:13 pm Permalink
Mango, Thanks, I like it best of all so far.
Thanks Laojia for the kind words and inspiration!
Seagoat, No Problem, Glad you stopped by and Happy you like the stuff. Thanks too for the props on the Tiki Mag story I agree they did an excellent job.
Heres a few more pix of the Maple guy
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