tikki amulet

The next project that I'll be showing you is....... a tiki! so to start you should decide on the kind of face you want whether it's scary or sad or humorous is up to you. With mine I chose to be scary/mad. So you take your design and draw it on your chunk of wood. use a fine tipped dremel so that it has an indented look. same as with the indent in the staff  I'm going to burn the wood. then after it's been burned, add two layers of oil.

the finish

For the square at the end, just run it through a chop saw so that the line is straight. Now that all the details are done, take a piece of 80 grit sand paper and sand from top to bottom once or twice to even the layers. Afterwards take a piece of 200 grit sand paper and run it over the staff until smooth. finally add a layer of wax followed by a light sanding grit 200 grit sand paper 2 or 3 times.

chop saw tutorial

burned images

After half an hour of grueling work, the first tikki has been burned. It looked really bad at first but black can't get any blacker so now it is a beautiful dark dark brown.This process takes about twenty to thirty minutes not including the time it takes to heat the pen so it will probably take me another 40 minutes to an hour to finish them all.

ring

On my staff I have built a ring, this ring was made on the lathe by chipping away the wood on either side. Now it's is a fully mobile ring that looks really cool and can spin but be careful because it is very brittle.

on top

The top part of the cane can be whatever you want. I'm going to go simple and old fashioned by sanding into a sphere. Sure it isn't the most interesting of finishes, but it works as a accent. it brings the viewers attention to the detail of the rest of your art.