Stopped for the night, all of the through-cuts are made, I picked up a set of clay-working tools from Michael's and the relief cuts tomorrow or the next day ought to go well. This is the first of my pumpkins I'll be entering in a contest, and the contest is Halloween day. So the pumpkin is out soaking in bleachwater.
I won't let you down Levnubbin ;) |
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I am excited to see this thing complete.
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hahaha win!
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Originally Posted by tyson87
(Post 473341)
any advice?
Keep the thing moist, don't let it start to dry out and get spongy. Keep the bacteria from eating it by using bleachwater. This year I even sterilized my tools and the surface before cutting. Needs to last until Saturday! Drill or carve a "chimney" near the stem out of sight. This'll prevent heat building up inside while on display. For relief cuts, get a set of "ribbon cutters" from the arts-n-crafts store. This is the first year I'll be using one but I should have been before. I'd been using various chisels and that's a lot more work to have it look smooth. |
Damn dude, you have that down to a science.
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My my, we have some regular Martha Stuart's here... It's not enough for some of us to drive hair dressers cars and read cat fancy magazine... :laugh:
This does look like something fun to try. If my neighborhood still had kids that went house to house, and I knew it wouldn't get smashed by the first group of thug ass wanna be kids that walked by, I would probably try some pumpkin carving. |
Originally Posted by NA6C-Guy
(Post 473888)
If my neighborhood still had kids that went house to house, and I knew it wouldn't get smashed by the first group of thug ass wanna be kids that walked by, I would probably try some pumpkin carving.
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Originally Posted by Stein
(Post 473899)
Well, you could put it in the window on the inside. Yeah, I know it's not a cool as on the front steps but you would have to take pains to protect something with that amount of work in it.
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If you put it up high enough they can't get to it so easily.
Attachment 202939 Couldn't escape the Garrison command though, they made me take it down. |
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Originally Posted by kotomile
(Post 474129)
If you put it up high enough they can't get to it so easily.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...e/DSCN1243.jpg Couldn't escape the Garrison command though, they made me take it down. |
Originally Posted by NA6C-Guy
(Post 473905)
Still wouldn't be in the spirit.
Originally Posted by NA6C-Guy
(Post 473888)
This does look like something fun to try. If my neighborhood still had kids that went house to house, and I knew it wouldn't get smashed by the first group of thug ass wanna be kids that walked by, I would probably try some pumpkin carving.
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So whats this thing look like...
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Right now, it looks like a half-carved pumpkin with a little bit of relief cuts. I'm going to take it to duty tonight and try to finish.
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if you dont finish tonight, you're nothin. tomorrow is hally weener
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I know. I'm on duty right now and will be for the next, oh, 14.5 hours? I have plenty of time. Going home to get the pumpkin at 6 PDST. Contest is tomorrow.
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my first pumpkin
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I really want to do more this year but everywhere has sold out of pumpkins.
Here are my pics from facebook, I'll repost when Ive got night time photos of them. http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/9633/dragj.th.pnghttp://img519.imageshack.us/img519/7...4501202.th.jpghttp://img251.imageshack.us/img251/8...4501202.th.jpghttp://img97.imageshack.us/img97/9803/jess.th.png This is from last year. Pretty classic face so couldnt resist. http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/1...4501202.th.jpg |
Originally Posted by rrjwilson
(Post 476106)
I really want to do more this year but everywhere has sold out of pumpkins.
Here are my pics from facebook, I'll repost when Ive got night time photos of them. http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/9633/dragj.th.pnghttp://img519.imageshack.us/img519/7...4501202.th.jpghttp://img251.imageshack.us/img251/8...4501202.th.jpghttp://img97.imageshack.us/img97/9803/jess.th.png This is from last year. Pretty classic face so couldnt resist. http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/1...4501202.th.jpg |
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