How are you making your tombstones? I actually made forms and poured concrete life size ones last year but it was a lot of work. I did find this awesome site "www.hauntedheadstones.com" that does a great job on them but expensive. Being generally out of my mind, like most extreme pumpkin carvers are...

Ah yes, you are right. The 3-D no gut exterior sculpting. Should have read more carefully I actually purchased a book called Extreme Pumpkin Carving that has patterns and instructions. It was very difficult and I think you need better wood carving tools than I had. I didn't want to spend $70 on a se...

I am old Pumpkin Wizard veteran and have sculpted 100's of pumpkins and they look cool. They also seem to last longer as there is more "flesh" holding things together. What I started doing last year is using regular patterns and scuplting, or scraping, instead of carving. The key is to scrape the in...

I grow lots of pumpkins and they ripen at the end of August, beginning of Sept. I actually pick them when green and just starting to turn orange. Then I place them together away from the patch in the sun to ripen. I can monitor them better and keep the rodents away. I loose a couple but for the most...

Greetings all. I'm an old carvingpumpkins.com veteran, but thought I would venture out to see how the rest of the carving world lives. I grow my own, mostly the big ones and carve about 50 pumpkins for my halloween display and another 50 before that. I also paint pumpkins and am always looking for n...