Wed Oct 29, 2008 5:46 pm
#18844
Hi all,
I've been carving pumpkins since I was a kid (I'm 26 now) and I just joined ZP and carved a Mario pumpkin last night. My pumpkins look great but, being a huge perfectionist, I always manage to find flaws. Every year when I carve there are a couple of questions in my mind that have never been answered to my satisfaction:
1. What is the "correct" way to saw into the various parts of the pattern? I always try to stay perpendicular to the surface of the pumpkin on every part of the pattern but still end up with parts that just do not look right to me.
2. When the peices of the pumpkin are pushed out, there are always little stringy parts that hang out into the carved area. I always clean them up and it takes forever. Is there an easy way to clean them up or avoid them altogether?
I've been carving pumpkins since I was a kid (I'm 26 now) and I just joined ZP and carved a Mario pumpkin last night. My pumpkins look great but, being a huge perfectionist, I always manage to find flaws. Every year when I carve there are a couple of questions in my mind that have never been answered to my satisfaction:
1. What is the "correct" way to saw into the various parts of the pattern? I always try to stay perpendicular to the surface of the pumpkin on every part of the pattern but still end up with parts that just do not look right to me.
2. When the peices of the pumpkin are pushed out, there are always little stringy parts that hang out into the carved area. I always clean them up and it takes forever. Is there an easy way to clean them up or avoid them altogether?