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Old 10-29-2009, 05:39 PM
 
Location: Lehigh Acres
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Let's see your jackolanterns!! Im going to be trying my hand for the first time tonight, at carving one with flames, well, i tried last year and failed miserably lol... this year i am trying to cut and shave it so it will hold up!! whatcha got?
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Old 10-30-2009, 02:23 PM
 
Location: Lehigh Acres
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here it is
the yellow sections you can see through when it's lit up, but the flash on the cell phone takes it away
i did another scary one today, my youngest wont go near it lol
http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs048.snc3/13555_1118019402641_1591684745_30302265_7627391_n. jpg (broken link)
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Old 10-30-2009, 06:22 PM
 
Location: North Central Florida
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Very cool! Looks like alot of work, and a labor of love.....

I'm "punkin" illiterate, so forgive a stupid question, how do you get the green color in there?
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Old 10-30-2009, 06:30 PM
 
Location: on the edge of Sanity
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Very cool! You are indeed an artist.

The best I can do is copy & paste a smiley.

http://bestsmileys.com/halloween1/1.gif (broken link)
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Old 10-30-2009, 10:53 PM
 
Location: Lehigh Acres
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yacht, it isn't green
what it is, is about 1/4 to 1/2" of pumpkin removed from the surface, if my phone didnt use a flash automatically, you would have seen a fainter glow showing through those parts

i used a dremel with a 1/8" burr bit to cut through the hard outer flesh just under the skin and then a flat screwdriver to scrape it down

there are some guys that are REAL pumpkin artists, im not one, halloween and 4th of july are my favorite holidays, so i tend to carve a lot of pumpkins and blow a lot of stuff up, more of the former now that i have chillins
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Old 11-03-2009, 11:59 AM
 
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I also tried that technique for the 1st time this year. It was cool, but very time consuming. My son wanted a skeleton coming out of a graveyard so that's an original. The scarecrow I had seen before and liked so I copied it. I know, that cheating
Your picture won't show on my computer but it sounds cool. I'll try it again on another computer soon.
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Old 11-03-2009, 03:15 PM
 
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I also tried that technique for the 1st time this year. It was cool, but very time consuming. My son wanted a skeleton coming out of a graveyard so that's an original. The scarecrow I had seen before and liked so I copied it. I know, that cheating
Your picture won't show on my computer but it sounds cool. I'll try it again on another computer soon.
Wow! Beautifully done.
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