Thursday, October 29, 2015

Jack-O-Lantern

I thought it was easy to carve a pumpkin just like our local kalabasa. But the skin was so thick and hard my Schrade knife almost closed on my fingers while trying to carve a Jack-O-Lantern. The solution was to use the locking blade of my SAK Trekker to make a cut on the skin and finish it off with the saw blade. I cleaned the inside of the pumpkin with a spoon and left it on a newspaper to dry.


My grandson is fascinated with it and volunteered to light the candle.

P.S. Happy Halloween!

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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Toy Airplane

After carving my grandson a few battle tanks, he requested me to make him a wooden airplane. I should have made him a fighter plane like the F15 but for somehow I made a commercial plane instead.


The plane ready to for painting.

Maybe it's just me but this photo gives me the creeps. First, I painted the airplane black when it should have been white or silver. Second, it looks like a downed airplane. There's a third reason but I wouldn't mention it.

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