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Great Stuff!

Can't wait to see all these goodies in person at the Chef! Coalbe & I are itchin' to make a purchase or 2.

Feel free to tease everyone & post some pics of what you're bringing over on the Chef 33rd Anniversary thread.

Keep up the awesome work Fred!

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Just finished carving this piece of red cedar. My daughter thought it looked like a monkey.
I must say that this piece was heavily influenced by TC's Aloha Station. I really like the way his work has a happy, care-free look to it. I wish it came so easily for me.
I am going to make a mold of this one and do some copies.


Mahalo!

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She's right, it does have a monkey face. Excellent work as usual.

You should do a resin mold of it. One of my favorite pieces is my green resin Finky Octopus.

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It has a "Planet of the Apes" thing going, for sure.

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Do you mean the original or the reimagining?

Fred are you bringing some stuff to the Chef the 24th/25th?

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You guys are too much!

Yeah, Ted. In fact, everything you see in this thread will be there. My daughter is coming with me too, and I think she may have some of her own crafty stuff there too.

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I'll have a bunch of these resin copies for sale there too, on the cheap.
I've been playing around with resin tints and have been very happy with the results.

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Those Rock Finky! Great color!

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Thank you! My wife likes the orange the best, but the kids like the blue. The tints I'm using worked out perfectly. I can't wait to try out some other ones.

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How are you getting the burnished effect in the red?

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Even though I'm using tints in the resin, I'm still applying some paint to add depth. On each piece I'm drybrushing on 2 or 3 shades of color to the top and then putting a light coat of Krylon clear acrylic to protect the paint and bring out the colors.
On the red one I used barn red, bright red, antique white, and yellow.

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Payment sent for one of them blue ones!

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Rocking the resins, Fred!

Nice work!

Look forward to seeing all your goodies in a few weeks!

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Thanks Hep!

Thanks Dave, see you in a couple of weeks!

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That's very nice, I like that a lot!
You've been very productive!

What kind of resin are you using?

I was thinking, that would be cool on the sides of a mug, sort of like this

but cooler.
You could stick them onto the sides with slip. You might have to modify them a bit for a plaster mold, but it looks like you could do it.

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Wow Don, that's a great idea! Maybe we should put our heads together and come up with something.
It wouldn't be hard to make a two part mold that would be shaped like the mug surface.
I'm using a Smooth-On brand urethane-based resin.

Hmmm.. gears are turning...

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Here is a lono pendant that I worked on almost completely durring my son's baseball practices, done completely with a hook knife and a small gouge. The result is something that is not as clean as some of my other stuff, but that's OK since I will be making a mold of him anyway.

I don't know what kind of wood it is, but it didn't carve very well. It was very "chippy" and didn't want to hold any crisp edges. Hopefully I'll be able to pour some molds later this evening.
Mahalo!

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Nice! and good use of time.
Maybe another face for the another side of a mug?

You could make a simple bucket mug like the one in the picture I posted, and stick on castings of these faces you are carving, then make a plaster mold of that.

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I just tested out the resin mold and it seems to have worked just fine.

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That worked out really well! That's a very nice piece.
Man, you are quick with the mold making and casting too!

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Can we name him Crampy the constipated Lono?

Not to take away from your killer carving. He looks great, as usual!

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Excellent work as usual Finky. So, what are your resin pendants going for these days?

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No offense taken.

Thanks Don! I'm selling the "monkey face" for $10 and the "Crampy " for $15 ('cause it's a total pain in the ass to paint).

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Outstanding Fred!
Can't wait to scoop some of this stuff up at the Chef.

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Thanks Dave! It will all be there.

Here's a couple of simple things I cut up today. By simple, I mean simple design.
The zebra wood piece was, of course, pretty easy due to it's shape.
But the FOM thing was tricky as hell because the cedar splits pretty easy and it is barely 1/8" thick. I don't know what I will do with it yet. Maybe I'll string it as a pendant.
The zebra wood was an end cut piece that I had lying around. Being an end piece I didn't really want to carve it, but it was way too pretty to just throw away, so I just did this pendant to show off it's increadible color and grain.
Try and get past the washed-out, grainy pictures my camera makes.




Thanks for looking!

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