The pumpkin carving thread...

[St0ney]

Wow - I'm glad this thread is taking off
I look forward to seeing all of your carvings.

Last year I carved over 100 kins, I was asked by a local farm to carve on weekends for them.
What was funny, Is a lot of the carvings took some time to carve, and the biggest hit was a pumpkin that I carved the (pi) symbol on.

Pumpkin Pie get it - LOL was such a hit I carved it 8 times (every sat/sun) for the month of Oct. Takes about 2 minutes to carve.



Anywho - Glad you guys like the tutors - and are able to come up with some new ideas, for your displays like the Windowkins.
The last photo on that tutor - is 2 of zombies patterns, I cut them in 1/4 plywood with a jigsaw, and each are 6 foot tall. They Looked awesome at night.

As far as other pattern Sites check out my links page.
There are many great sites out there for Unique patterns.

St0ney

[St0ney]

Originally Posted by EvilMel

Wow.

Around here people think I'm a supremely awesome pumpkin carver. I totally feel lame now. hah hah.

It's not about carving better than carving's you see online !
It's about carving pumpkins better than your neighbors. - LOL

As long as you take your time, you can carve anything.
If shaving for the first time, try it on a simpler pattern, then move on to something more complicated.

YOU CAN DO IT !

[St0ney]

Originally Posted by Packrat

Ah Yes the Mona Simmons one of Da Vinci's lesser known paintings,Looks good StOney,Getting a Early Jump on the rest of us?

LOL !


The real "Da Vinci code" was......

He liked to rock and roll all night, and party everyday.

[Packrat]

And was drinking Cold Gin evidently

[EvilMel]

Originally Posted by St0ney

It's not about carving better than carving's you see online !
It's about carving pumpkins better than your neighbors. - LOL

As long as you take your time, you can carve anything.
If shaving for the first time, try it on a simpler pattern, then move on to something more complicated.

YOU CAN DO IT !

Yeah, I am still going to carve the living heck outta pumpkins this fall.

At least I'm known for being one of the best carvers around Knoxville. A couple of my friends told me I should try to carve for the local businesses, but I am not sure about it.

I haven't tried to do the shading carving yet.

I'm SUPER into carving slasher figures from horror movies. I did a bunch of those patterns from the Zombie Pumpkins site two years ago and put them all around my yard. I can't find any pictures of them though.

Maybe this year I'll try one of the shaded patterns. I've got a wicked awesome tool kit that includes some tools for doing that very thing.

Have you guys got the pumpkin gutter? What about that pumpkin masters electric pumpkin saw? I love them both.

[Packrat]

For the Fake pumpkins I usually just use a small saw and my Dremel tool.On the real ones I can use the same saws but for the shading I like to use clay sculpting tools

[Magickbean]

There are some phenomenal carvings here - you all put my simple Jack O'Lantern faces to shame lol! *blushes*

I must say that after seeing all this gorgeous work, I am incredibly inspired to give one of the more artistic patterns a go, though...I do so love to carve pumpkins!

[Packrat]

Hey Mel,here is one you might get a kick out of

[EvilMel]

That IS neat.

I did a Freddy last year from a Zombie Pumpkins pattern.

Yours is really cool!

[FamilyCorner]

Holy moly! These carvings are incredible, you guys are so talented!!

I found some cool patterns on the net, would love any additional links if anyone has them These are free to download.

Here are some cool political pumpkin carving patterns
http://www.fabulousliving.com/compon...icle/514/27980

and a ton of others more appropriate for kids LOL
http://www.fabulousfoods.com/compone...icle/584/21465

The second link has a Harry Potter carving pattern for HP fans!

Anyone else have any links to patterns?