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NICE! THE FIRST CHALLENGE ENTRY AND THAT WAS FAST! KILER JOB! WHEN YOU FINISH IT POST IT UP! THANKS FOR PARTICIPATING!

OMG now you are certainly pushing it....hahahaha No the challenge is about carving...so after you have it all carved and show it to us!!!! Assemble it and show it here when it is done then load it up in you gallery:)

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Is that a wallet????? COOL SHAPE! Tiki Steam Punk??? That is a strange combo for sure! hahaha It is tiki on the inside but on the outside it is all hardcore steam punk... You have my attention! Or is that just basic design and you where showing different options? I get that...and if your just being weird that is OK TO!!!!!!!!! hahahaha lololol

I just had Lucky 7 on the brain you are soooooooo right:)

hahahahaha Maybe your right...there might be a few closet Samhain fans out there!...hahahaha

oh no!!!!!!!!I think this one is going to be a ................................................................................................. .......well I'll leave ya hanging...LMFAO!

Think again guy! I am just as swift with the old hammer style 2:) MUHAHAHAHA I was a little rusty...but I have been practicing:) EVLLH!!!!!

YES:) Tiki + Flower or Tree:) (for Sly) I see your wheels turning already!!!!! They are always a challenge and every one is different all the time:) And I hate doing flowers! So I out that in there as well cause I need to work on those! And they myth is that orchids in a ladies ear attracts the Tiki Gods:)

Ya the extensions for the letter handle is key, it enables you to rock the letters front /back side to side better and get a much deeper impression...only problem is that the marks of the letter for what is top and bottom will disappear over time so just take some nail polish and mark the bottom towards you so you know the letter is facing the proper direction:) I have made up side down letters a few times...it is very frustrating!!!!!!!! The thing about stamping the letters is ya it is generic but sometimes it is more than good enough for some jobs. I have hand cut 15 club belts fonts at a time and I wish I would have talked them into stamps, but they get what they want and pay for. Plus the thing about the stamps is you have a nice trough for the color to pool into. As you can see in my close up the red pools real nice and you can be a bit more speedy and sloppy and it will just fall into the proper valley. All in all a belt like that takes me about 4-5 hours so if you are in that realm your are cookin' pretty good and keep up the pace! Put on some Samhain and rock that sh*t out! Or some Sixgun Republic:) hahaha;) EVEN BETTER! TTYL8R!

HERE YOU GO A JPEG EXAMPLE OF SOMETHING YOU CAN EASILY DO BY HAND.

IT IS WYO SHEEN IN THE UK. At least the closest thing...I have been told Neat Lac is no longer made, anything being stocked is ol stock and if you live some where near that has it and use it often, you should stock pile it.....I could be wrong, this may be a rumor, but it is what I have been told.

OK SO HERE IS THIS MONTHS CHALLENGE; TIKI MADNESS! Design or borrow a Tiki mask or full body, design Orchids or some other Flowers or TREES around it. Rules; 1. YOU MUST ONLY USE 4 tools chosen from the LUCKY 7 tool Kit supplied from Tandy, you may not have the "KIT" but look at the picture and you may have something very similar or exactly what is supplied in the kit. SWIVEL KNIFE BEVELER VEINER PEAR SHADER SEEDER BACKGROUNDER CAMOUFLAGE TOOL CHOOSE ONLY 4 OF THE 7! NOT CONSIDERED TOOLS: COMPUTER HAMMER DIVIDERS STRAIGHT EDGES STYLUS / PENCIL PAPERS / PLASTIC SHEETS IF YOU JUST WANT TO MAKE A WALL HANGER THAT IS COOL...BUT I WELCOME MAKING SOMETHING ELSE USEFUL AS WELL. MOTORCYCLE SEAT,BAG,BOOK COVER,BELT,COASTERS,KEY RING,COIN POUCH,SHOES,CATCH ALL FOR KEYS AND ASSORTED STUFF BY THE DOOR,BAR SIGN,...WHATEVER! DESIGNS ARE NOT ONLY LIMITED TO TIKI AND FLOWERS/TREES, YOU CAN ADD ANY OTHER ELEMENT YOU WISH, AS LONG AS THOSE 2 ELEMENTS ARE INCLUDED. LIKE A BEACH SCENE/ TIKI PARTY, BUT YOU CAN ONLY USE 4 OF THE 7 TOOLS PROVIDED IN THE KIT! HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!

hahahahahahaha To busy to post it up! I will today! I put out an Email to Twin Oaks to see if he had come up with an idea so I could post it up, I was hoping for a reply, but Sundays are always dead days here on the LWF. Everyone is at church and spending time with the family mostly, maybe I will get a reply later today:) Patience Grasshopper:)

Here is one with holes...it just depends on how big your holes are... as far as ending without going all the way around...you just finish the last x loop and stick the lace into the underside of 4-5 X's and pull it through and cut the end...easy as pie.

It is a lot of work to pound that background with the tool you are using...I do it all the time! It takes doing it a lot to get it perfect...but you are killing it and the belts look great! The thing you did to the 718 is called inverted carving:) You backgrounded what normally would be the main picture...Inverted Carving:) Here is my sons belt...same color scheme. The background I used here is A885. You used A888 or should have, there is a much smaller one for very small stuff like the inside of an A. A888-2...it is a real time sucker and that is why I almost always now use the A855. But I do like the look and still use the A888 from time to time! I do use that A888 to outline a lot of stuff and also use it for inverted backgrounds:) It is pretty standard. After you use the A885 like I did re-stamp your letters to give the nice impression you originally had before you started backgrounding. Don't use the pebble backgrounder to surround letters it always looks messy. Like in the first pic you did...(It would be ok if you would have done it all the way through the background of the letters but you only did around each letter and it looks a bit uneven) I think you learned that lesson and tried something else...which is looking good! Just Re-Stamp the Letters after backgrounding. Color the letters black first and then add the red...black doesn't cover over red very well for some reason if you get red on the letters by accident but if it is black first it still may discolor, but hit it with black again and it will be all good! Remember; If it aint fun it aint worth doing! And you can always give them my number....hahahahaha Just kidding! Keep up the good work! My stuff has flaws and isn't always perfect the day it is maybe I'll get hit by a bus or something better! All we can do is learn something new everyday and do the best we could...cause to people who can't do anything for themselves our flaws are their white whale! I used to work for this lady in NY who's husband was a surgon and wouldn't even change a lightbulb or fix the chain on the toilet! So I know most people are just not mechanically inclined(even surgeons)...and that is ok to! I need their money to feed my kids! Until then we are all just humans...at least until the Robots and LASERS TAKE OVER!!!!!!!!!! hahahahaha

That is pretty funny grasshopper:) I mean Domino:) It aint done yet:) hhahahaha

WOOHOOO!!!!!!!!!! I got the Body tonight!!!!!!!!!! I can see this thing is really going to come together fast...just as soon as I have all the holes marked properly for the bridge, pickups and tone control plate... But at least now I have my shapes and art limits... It is still going to take quite a while before it is finished because I am really taking my time with the scenes. Some of the stuff is so incredibly small and I am working with a straight blade...I need to go ahead and make my other knife angled for the corners... But I am amazed even with a straight hollow ground just how small I can get:)

OK DAY 1 CARVING:) I just got started:) This is the front bottom and Left area....the main body. More riders will be coming from the right soon. Still waiting on the body to arrive so just over where it looks like the cow skull horn isn't finished is actually where the volume and tone selector is going to be fitting in:)