Thu Oct 27, 2005 3:20 pm
#1292
So, I've got a question. I tried starting my carving extravaganza last night, but there was something crazy about the pumpkin I was using. I scooped out the insides and got the whole large pumpkin down to about an inch in thickness, and then becan poking the stencil out and sawing my little heart out; it was the Charlie stencil, which I figured it'd be fine if it started rotting a little, because that movie was creepy, anyhow.
Well, here's the thing: the insides were weird, anyhow, because they came apart like spaghetti squash, in little chunks of deep-rooted flesh. Once I started carving, and punching out the chunks of the face in smaller pieces, it pulled out massive amounts of the backing, no matter how well I sawed through it. It ended up ripping out the attached orangey parts in the front, which it shouldn't have been, and Charlie died. He ended up meeting the lovely trash can and left me sad and dejected.
Now, I bought all my pumpkins at the same place and about the same time; any suggestions on gutting? Maybe I should go thinner on the front part? I'm just kind of paranoid to try to do that since deeper scooping was shredding the walls unevenly. Help!?
Well, here's the thing: the insides were weird, anyhow, because they came apart like spaghetti squash, in little chunks of deep-rooted flesh. Once I started carving, and punching out the chunks of the face in smaller pieces, it pulled out massive amounts of the backing, no matter how well I sawed through it. It ended up ripping out the attached orangey parts in the front, which it shouldn't have been, and Charlie died. He ended up meeting the lovely trash can and left me sad and dejected.
Now, I bought all my pumpkins at the same place and about the same time; any suggestions on gutting? Maybe I should go thinner on the front part? I'm just kind of paranoid to try to do that since deeper scooping was shredding the walls unevenly. Help!?