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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: johnm160 on October 31, 2006, 01:09:13 am
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here is my latest creation.
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Skeletor - I like it
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Niiiice. Some of those remaining crosspieces must be fragile. What did you use to cut it?
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Good one! :applaud:
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Here's mine and my wife's.
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Also Me and my wife's and the obligatory father/son mame pumpkin!
LPZ
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Here's my MK pumpkin.
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Here's mine and my wife's.
Dig the linux pengunkins!
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Thanks. For the record, it's the same pumpkin -- just two pictures of it :)
I probably should have dug more of the feet out so a little more light would show through, but my god look at the bottom of his stomach and you can see how thick that damned pumpkin was. I was too lazy to bring it back in and work on it any more.
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Those took some time to do.
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Here's my MK pumpkin.
I want to see a bigger shot of this MK pumpkin. Looks like some incredible detail in it.
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here's my pumpkin entry, jack skellington. i freehanded this, no stencils or anything, it turned out exactly how i wanted it.
i love everyone elses too, good job everyone!
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This year we let the kids design the jack-o-lanterns, but usually it is my domain.
Here is one of my favourite bunches from recent years.
Cheers.
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Wow. Nice shading.
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I want to see a bigger shot of this MK pumpkin. Looks like some incredible detail in it.
Here you go. The pic doesn't show the detail very well so I attached the photo of the stencil The black areas get cut out, the grey areas get the skin scraped off.
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Niiiice. Some of those remaining crosspieces must be fragile. What did you use to cut it?
Chad, it is just a little saw that comes with the pattern book, and yes they are fragile...
One year I had to stick a few pieces back on with toothpicks.... ;D
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Nice work guys.......that mame one is too funny...... :laugh2:
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Those Scooby Doo ones are great. Same with the Jack Skellington. One of my all-time favorite movies.
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thos scooby ones are awesome i bow to you!
i really wanted jack for abotu a month and was workign on sketching abou that long and watching the movie over and over and the xbox game my son keep playing, till i decided on this look and i love it i wish the sxquirrels hadnt chowed it down almost instantly though, im glad i took pics right away.
does anyone have any squirrel deterent ideas? one of my nieghbors suggested putting moth balls in the pumpkin (of course after the factr) 8)
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A cat.
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the squirrels in my hood arent afraid of cats, sadly. they squawk at them and hold their ground they dont even run away!
they're very bold
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They will be when the cat starts ripping heads off. You need better cats.
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we have one big tom who is indoor/outdoor and 3-5 feral outside cats, so maybe the squirrels are too used to them to feel threatened anymore....
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Well, if the squirrels are still alive, the cats aren't really doing the job. My cats used to pile squirrels up like firewood.
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nope i guess not. but anyways, i'm not trying to kill the squirrels, just stop them from eating my pumpkins right away. i could easily put rat poison on them if i wanted to have dead squirrels all over my yard instead of pieces of pumpkin...
but thats not my goal, i'm hoping spraying soap or hairspray or some other non-toxic stuff will deter them for a few days before they start their feast. that would make me happy
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In that case, cat urine.
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That's perfect. You just need them to pee in a cup for you ;)
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thats a not a bad idea, ive seen different animal scents for sale at the hardware store, mayhaps i'll try one of those, coyote or fox something like that...
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A coyote won't scare a squirrel. You have to go with something only a little bit bigger... and if you put something bigger than your cat you will scare your own cat.
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i never thought of that LOL, could be handy for keeping those outside cats from diggin up my wifes garden
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Maybe the most efficient solution is to stop feeding your cat.
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A coyote won't scare a squirrel. You have to go with something only a little bit bigger... and if you put something bigger than your cat you will scare your own cat.
Fox urine works just fine. Squirrels were tearing out the bulbs in my mom's garden. Spray the crap around once a week and no more problems.
I went to Gander Mountain to pick it up. And ignored the "this is not to be used as an animal deterrent" sticker on the bottle. Dunny why that's on there, but whatever :dunno
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Are you meant to put it on your cereal?
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Maybe the most efficient solution is to stop feeding your cat.
I'm gonna have to second this notion.
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So, what the hell do they sell the fox urine for, then? Cocktail mixer?
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eh some call it fox urine some call it patchouli
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JK
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So, what the hell do they sell the fox urine for, then? Cocktail mixer?
Trapping. Also for directing animals in a certain direction for hunting. I'm sure there's other reasons, but for all I know, the stuff is from a fox in heat and my mom is gonna have eleventy brazillion male foxes in her garden now :dunno
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Also for directing animals in a certain direction for hunting.
That's using it as a deterrent... telling them where to go is the same as telling them everywhere not to go. :laugh2:
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;D
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Figured I'd drag this thread up for this year instead of creating a new one.
Here is a rough pic of my pumpkin this year taken on my phone. I have much better pics of this one and the wife's at home that I will upload later.
I picked out the most difficult design in the book and I was really regretting it while transferring onto the pumpkin. Once I got into a groove though, it really wasn't that bad. It took between 2-3 hours to cut out.
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3 hours? Don't you have kids? ;D
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3 hours? Don't you have kids? ;D
I did alot of it while we watched a movie. I finished it in 10 minute sittings up until about 11:30.
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What do you use to cut through a pumpkin with that much accuracy? Just curious.
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What do you use to cut through a pumpkin with that much accuracy? Just curious.
There is a kit you can get at Target, Walmart, etc. It was like $4 and had a book full of designs and a few tools. The main tool is a small saw that is basically a fine toothed jigsaw blade mounted on a handle. It also has a little wheel tool that you use to transfer the design onto the pumpkin. I found that tool a pain to use, so I went and grabbed my wife's seam ripper tool and poked all the holes myself.
Then you just take your time with the saw, and keep the original layout handy to make sure you are cutting out the right pieces.
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I bought one of those a couple years ago... the blade snapped out of the handle in about 60 seconds. Maybe that one was cheaper or the pumpkin shell was thicker than the one you just did...
I have a friend that does pretty good BIG ones with a jigsaw.
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I broke the big saw when cutting out the top. The wife had already bent the crap out of it when she cut her top out. The smaller detail saw seemed to be pretty durable.
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cmon, noone else has carved a pumpkin this year??
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cmon, noone else has carved a pumpkin this year??
I haven't done it yet, pumpkin is sitting on the counter right now. I'm doing it a bit different this year, I think it will turn out cool.
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How do you keep that thing fresh until Halloween? Mine usually start withering in a day or two.
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How do you keep that thing fresh until Halloween? Mine usually start withering in a day or two.
I highly doubt it will make it to halloween. I will do at least one more before then though. The guide says that if you put it in the fridge every once in a while, that it can increase the life of the pumpkin.
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cmon, noone else has carved a pumpkin this year??
nope, but I have been enjoying the stash of Post Road Pumpkin Ale that I picked up ';]
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cmon, noone else has carved a pumpkin this year??
nope, but I have been enjoying the stash of Post Road Pumpkin Ale that I picked up ';]
I'm a big fan of Buffalo Bill's Pumpkin Ale...
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Saw a pumpkin carved like this:
(http://jennifersaylor.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/pumpkin_pi.jpg)
at the local orchard...
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Nice :laugh2:
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wow, that puts a whole new meaning to pumpkin pi
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Mmmmmmm....Pi