Traditional pumpkin (and other) carvings!

dpowers311 said:
Great idea and love the happy family.

What are the 2 knives
Dave
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The Case trapper in peach seed chestnut bone was the main carver (the spay worked wonders with the relief carving) and the other is my GEC 85 in acrylic (cant remember what they call the color) it did the detail cuts in around the eyes.

5K Qs said:
Great job on the watermelon carving, Blade_Crazy :thumbup::thumbup:
Love your photos! Our daughter is 26 now, but I fondly remember the days when she was your daughter's age - good times :)
Enjoy your time with your little one - the years fly by!

- GT
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Thanks, it was a first for us as a family! My little one is soon to be 17 months and it barely seems a day has gone by since I first met her. She is truly a blessing in my wife and my life, she is a ton of fun and a little insane (just the way it should be :D ).

Jack Black said:
LOL! :D No, it's true, when I was a kid there were only about half a dozen vegetables here! :D Even in the 1980's, I remember going into a small shop to ask for a green pepper, and another customer (not even the shopkeeper) sneered, "Oh no love, it's all beans and chips round here!", like I was asking for Beluga caviar or something! :eek: That's baked beans and fries by the way ;)

I'm not sure when they started growing pumpkins here, but it was relatively recently, as Halloween gets bigger here every year. Pumpkin isn't really eaten here at all.

I wonder how far back turnip carving goes, have to research that one! ;)
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That's awesome! I had never heard of carving anything but pumpkins until my daughters allergic reaction last year (which prompted a bit -read a lot- of research into pumpkin alternatives) seems like it might be a fun thing to try.


-Andrew
 
Andrew, you have a nice family and thanks for sharing your carving photos. My sons are now 25 and 24, it seems like yesterday they were the size of your daughter. Time flies and enjoy every minute.

Your 85 is Coffee House Acrylic. :)
 
Markesharp said:
Andrew, you have a nice family and thanks for sharing your carving photos. My sons are now 25 and 24, it seems like yesterday they were the size of your daughter. Time flies and enjoy every minute.

Your 85 is Coffee House Acrylic. :)
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Thanks for the kind words, I do feel very blessed as both a husband and father and look forward to many things as she grows (and new little ones come), and thanks for the name of that acrylic I just couldn't put my finger on it lol.
 
Markesharp said:
My sons are now 25 and 24, it seems like yesterday they were the size of your daughter. Time flies and enjoy every minute.
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Absolutely Mark, and that's great advice :thumbup:

Blade_Crazy said:
That's awesome! I had never heard of carving anything but pumpkins until my daughters allergic reaction last year (which prompted a bit -read a lot- of research into pumpkin alternatives) seems like it might be a fun thing to try.
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Hope you and your family have a great Halloween Andrew, and thanks again for the great pics :) :thumbup:

Jack
 
I'll admit, I didn't solely use the Bull Buster on this one, but it handled the larger cuts quite well.


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Heeey thats very arty.:thumbup:
Mine are more in keeping with the hack and slash type halloween.
When Janette brought these two in I just had to say-"phwoooaar nice melons love."
Melon Bonus-all the fruit can be given out on the night -did I say fruit? I meant congealed vampire blood.
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Jack here's an English food based tale of woe for you. My Dad had never eaten pasta until he met my Mum around 1962.
 
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Great work on those pumpkins guys :thumbup: I've just been carving up a turnip...but it went in the stew I'm making! ;)

meako said:
Jack here's an English food based tale of woe for you. My Dad had never eaten pasta until he met my Mum around 1962.
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Wow, what a pair of groovy trend-setters! :cool: Think it was about 1970 round our house! :D Not counting the tinned stuff of course! :eek:

I can remember pizza being a TV news item as the 'hot new craze' around the same time, it followed fast on the heels of waffles and the 'Danish sandwich'! :D
 
Jack Black said:
Great work on those pumpkins guys :thumbup: I've just been carving up a turnip...but it went in the stew I'm making! ;)



Wow, what a pair of groovy trend-setters! :cool: Think it was about 1970 round our house! :D Not counting the tinned stuff of course! :eek:

I can remember pizza being a TV news item as the 'hot new craze' around the same time, it followed fast on the heels of waffles and the 'Danish sandwich'! :D
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What, pray tell, is a Danish sandwich?
 
Blade_Crazy said:
What, pray tell, is a Danish sandwich?
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It was just like a big hero-type sandwich - except as this was 1960's England, there wasn't a lot to go in the middle! Just some grated cheese OR lazer-cut ham and some thickly cut cucumber, lettuce and tomato! The bread looked like a baguette, but kind of big and fat, and not at all like a baguette in texture - I think they called it a 'French loaf' at the time! Now here's the clever part...(drumroll)...two people could share a sandwich, eating it from each end! :D Hey, the 'We never had no bananas for five years' generation loved it! :D

The English version is even LESS sophisticated than an actual Danish sandwich - an 'open sandwich' - so like HALF a sandwich really! :D ;)
 
Dad remembers oranges and bananas appearing just after the war.ww2.kids would eat them like apples skin and all.
 
meako said:
Dad remembers oranges and bananas appearing just after the war.ww2.kids would eat them like apples skin and all.
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Yeah, and Kevin Spacey calls that "acting"! :D

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Nothing yet today, but this is by far my favourite pumpkin pic of all time. My daughter was five months old and my mom brought us the biggest pumpkin in her patch. Just couldn't resist, my mom always said she was found in the pumpkin patch as a baby. She passed away 10 days after this picture was taken, the last time she saw us.
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I can't seem to find any other pictures for now, so I'll have to take some later tonight!!
 
Aw, that is such a great picture Kris :thumbup:
 
Jack Black said:
When I was a kid, there were no pumpkins here, and people hollowed out turnips - Just surviving that with all your digits intact is an achievement! :D
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I agree Jack. Turnip carving was for carpenters not kids with wobbly penknives.

Lovely thread and great pictures folks.
 
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