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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 4:21 am
I had to fly out of the tribe a couple weeks early due to dengue fever, but since I'm out here I thought I would offer up my only ties to the pipe world for your inspection and critique. No power tools used except for the chainsaw I used to slab the tree the wood came from. Other than that just a pocket knife, files and sand paper.
The black color is from crushed rock that is the most common rock in the Hewa village where I live and the white'ish colored one is crushed quartz that I find along the creek banks there. One of the tampers I tried to carve in the likeness of a tribal, grass roofed hut and it was colored with the juice of a local mulberry type fruit. I can't say I'm much of a "whittler" but it's a relaxing thing to do at the end of the day here. I can't find anything higher than 220 grit paper so the wood is still a bit fuzzy. I may wait until I come back Stateside and sand them more then and buff them up, but that will be another year and a half so we'll see.
Oh, and that was my first attempt inlay crushed rock. I had no idea what I was doing so any pointers you want to offer, please feel free to do so. I could have filled in the gaps, but the cragginess just seemed fit with the place that they came from. Anywho, here you go...
The black color is from crushed rock that is the most common rock in the Hewa village where I live and the white'ish colored one is crushed quartz that I find along the creek banks there. One of the tampers I tried to carve in the likeness of a tribal, grass roofed hut and it was colored with the juice of a local mulberry type fruit. I can't say I'm much of a "whittler" but it's a relaxing thing to do at the end of the day here. I can't find anything higher than 220 grit paper so the wood is still a bit fuzzy. I may wait until I come back Stateside and sand them more then and buff them up, but that will be another year and a half so we'll see.
Oh, and that was my first attempt inlay crushed rock. I had no idea what I was doing so any pointers you want to offer, please feel free to do so. I could have filled in the gaps, but the cragginess just seemed fit with the place that they came from. Anywho, here you go...