I have done some more work on the mouth. After the bark lips started to fall off, I had to flatten the remainder out, so I had to make the whole face a little deeper in the wood. I am chiseling wood out from between the two rows of teeth after going down a few layers deeper on the teeth too. The wood is now much more… uh… woodey, and less fibrous. Maybe on the next tiki that I do from the Mexican palm tree log, I will just cut down to the harder wood on the whole side I am working on.

Also, I noticed that I have been taking these photos with my phone having the sun back-light the tiki, just because I liked the stuff in the background better… it isn’t my trash cans. But maybe if I try another angle on the next picture, after I do some more work…

Now you can see it better. I made some tooth gaps, and worked on the eyes. Okay, I will let you know when I do some more work on it.