New use for spindle gouge...don't laugh.

[Bobalu]

I was helping my granddaughter carve her pumpkin tonight, which seems to be my official duty every year at this time. Rather than the scary face design she usually requests, she wanted something a little different this year..... a spider sitting on its web.

I drew what I felt was a fair representation of a spider on the pumpkin (kids are so easy to please). Then I got out my pumpkin carving tools.....a drywall hole saw, a mini hacksaw, my battery powered drill, and some spade bits. I no longer us anything like a knife, not after learning the hard way that slimy, slippery pumpkin pulp and sharp knives don't mix.

All went well as far as getting the spider design cut out, but there was the little matter of the web. I only wanted to cut partially through the pumpkin, so it wouldn't get to fragile. I looked around for the perfect tool to do this with, and suddenly the light bulb went on. I wanted to gouge the pumpkin, not cut it. I had lots of gouges in my shop. A few minutes later I was gouging out the web with my small spindle gouge. It worked great. :biggrin:

 

[HSTurning]

Dremel is my tool of choice the last 2 years. I will be using it next weekend for the ones we have.

 

[dalemcginnis]

So, where's the picture?

 

[jaywood1207]

Jigsaw for me one year. My brother grew these huge pumpkins and gave us one. The walls of the pumpkin were almost 3 inches thick and a knife "just wasn't cutting it".

 

[DurocShark]

Don't you guys worry about mucking up power tools like that? Or rust?

 

[arw01]

Na, a good soak in the rain and they look good as new!

Used the dremel myself a couple years ago for the skin removal portion, had not though of using the jewelers saw from the cosman dovetails process, might have to try that this year for the carving!

 

[ctubbs]

No pictured, didn't happen!:tongue: I gotta see that spider!:wink::biggrin:

Charles

 

[HSTurning]

I know I don't. The dremel is one of the first tools I bought some 15+ years ago. I only use it for pumpkin carving now. Sad thing is it gets more use every year doing pumpkins then it did all years combined before.

Don't you guys worry about mucking up power tools like that? Or rust?

 

[keithkarl2007]

There are some pretty cool patterns online for pumpkin carving, I done a great one last year and some bugger took it off the pillar at our gate.

 

[animefan]

Good idea to use a gouge but wheres the picture.

 

[PenMan1]

Nice Punkin idea,Bob! You KNOW I have to try this now, THANKS. Like I have time to be goofing with a punkin.

 

[RAdams]

I would rather make an air cannon, or a trebuchet, and shoot the punkins into outer space.

I tried to carve a pumpkin a few years back. My kids came up with the brilliant idea. My wife went and bought a kit that came with knives, saws, pokers, patterns, a scoop thingy for the guts, the works. The patterns were even seperated into three neat packets. noob... not so noob... and freakin picasso with a punkin.

Evidently my kids thought that i was a good pumpkin carver because they chose the most insane pattern in the box. A witch flying on a broom through the night sky, in front of a full moon. It turned out looking like a whole different kind of moon (where is the "mooning smiley" when you need it!).


We put it on the porch anyway, with a candle inside even... For some reason, we had lots of leftover candy that year.