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furball
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Aug 26, 2009
Posts: 44
From: Oregon
|  Posted: 2011-10-03 1:16 pm Permalink
Thanks Bro. I have been checking out your work and I love it. Your style is bold and clean, man!
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TheBigT
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 1155
From: Fabulous Houston
| Posted: 2011-10-04 9:17 pm Permalink
Great new carves. The chisels are paying off! 
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furball
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Aug 26, 2009
Posts: 44
From: Oregon
| Posted: 2011-10-10 09:09 am Permalink
Thanks T!
Good to be back at the carving again. I had to take time off from it due to a wicked and ongoing bout of bursitis. I'm only 37 but have had many sports injuries, mostly due to extreme skiing. I have had my ACLs replaced in both knees but a wicked tumble at close to 60mph on skis pulled my shoulder out of socket a couple years ago. Went through therapy and it was getting better. Ended up tweaking it again in the spring this year and couldn't get it to stop hurting. Did more therapy, got a cortisone shot and now I'm feeling great and back to swinging the mallet. Found out, I can carve with a blown knee, but not with a bad shoulder.
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TheBigT
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 1155
From: Fabulous Houston
| Posted: 2011-10-12 2:18 pm Permalink
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On 2011-10-10 09:09, furball wrote:
Thanks T!
Good to be back at the carving again. I had to take time off from it due to a wicked and ongoing bout of bursitis. I'm only 37 but have had many sports injuries, mostly due to extreme skiing. I have had my ACLs replaced in both knees but a wicked tumble at close to 60mph on skis pulled my shoulder out of socket a couple years ago. Went through therapy and it was getting better. Ended up tweaking it again in the spring this year and couldn't get it to stop hurting. Did more therapy, got a cortisone shot and now I'm feeling great and back to swinging the mallet. Found out, I can carve with a blown knee, but not with a bad shoulder.
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I hear ya. I've been using the heaviest model of those green polyurethane mallets. Was killing my right shoulder. Had to change the way I carve. I also need to get a lighter one for "everyday" carving and reserve the heavy one for the big cuts. I like to carve looking over the log and cutting towards me or way from me. It just makes more "sense" like that for me. But now had to switch to cutting sideways either to my left or right switching mallet hands off and on. Uh, hope that makes sense?
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furball
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Aug 26, 2009
Posts: 44
From: Oregon
| Posted: 2011-10-27 09:53 am Permalink
Here is a little dude I made for my wife to keep on her desk at work, to ward off the evil spirits.
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NIxxon
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Dec 22, 2010
Posts: 489 | Posted: 2011-10-27 2:07 pm Permalink
SICK work brother...those chisels are def bringin your A game...keep up the good work
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Will carve
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 06, 2011
Posts: 363 | Posted: 2011-10-28 04:08 am Permalink
Nice finish.
Looks like furniture.
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furball
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Joined: Aug 26, 2009
Posts: 44
From: Oregon
| Posted: 2011-10-28 09:20 am Permalink
Well, as a matter of fact... nyuk, nyuk... it is stain that I mixed for a furniture piece. I'm making a bed for my daughter and mixed a mahogany 2 parts with 1 part ebony to create a black cherry look. I liked it so much that I decided the little tiki would look good in it.
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Keylo
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Joined: Aug 09, 2011
Posts: 98
From: Daytuna Beach
| Posted: 2011-10-28 09:45 am Permalink
That tiki is so cool, your going to have a hard time keepin the evil spirits from stealing it!
Great expression and creative work!!
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