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It's that time of year again, where we go down to a pumpkin patch (or wal-mart or something) and pick out a big orange gourd, bring it home, grab a big knife, cut it open, scoop out all the crap inside it, and disfigure it horribly and put a small fire inside! I looked for one for the first ten pages, and decided it was time a pumpkin thread was made. Sure, it's still early, but this gives people time to plan. For the completely uninitiated, Wikipedia has the scoop. Pumpkin Masters - A classic. The official site of those "all-in-one" carving packages that pretty much every child in the US starts out with. Extreme Pumpkins - If you like carving things that are a little more... weird. Zombie Pumpkins - Stencil site which is sortable by difficulty, which is awesome. (courtesy of Metaline) Pumpkinglow - More stencils (courtesy of sporklift) Last year's crop can be found here. Last year I decided that I hated myself, and carved this with nothing but an Exacto knife:  Here's the pattern, if anyone wants it. It took me over 4 hours with a small break in the middle to rest my arm. The cool part was that due to the curvature of the pumpkin, it would change shape when viewed from different angles.  This year I'm armed with a Dremel, so carving should become a lot easier (until I accidentally saw through a bridge...). However, I'm having trouble picking a design.  This one is what I'm considering right now, but I'm already worrying about the cleanness of the lines, especially near the center. So, post your stencils and finished Pumpkins, let's see what goons can carve! 
pseudosavior fucked around with this message at Oct 20, 2009 around 18:30 |
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First and foremost I'd like to start this thread off by reigniting the age old Halloween arguement. Scraping away at the skin of the pumpkin into whatever design you want so that light sort of shines through, without actually cutting holes in it, is for sissies who can't carve pumpkins.
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| # ? Oct 13, 2009 22:24 |
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Use an engraving bit with your Dremel. And never use a cutting wheel. Use a jigsaw bit.
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| # ? Oct 13, 2009 22:26 |
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I'm using patterns from Zombie Pumpkins this year. Zombie Michael Jackson? Yes, please! I'm an American/Canadian currently live in the UK, where Hallowe'en is really failing to take off with the right spirit, so this year I'm planning on making a bunch of Jack-o'-lanterns and taking them to the Hallowe'en party I'm going to. For educational purposes! Has anyone cut a hole out of the bottom of the pumpkin instead of making a lid? And holy poo poo, that Predator is insane.
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| # ? Oct 13, 2009 23:38 |
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I'm flying to Texas for halloween and I plan on carving a few of these bad-boys while there. I've never done it, so if anyone finds a really good stencil site, post please. Edit: wasn't there a way to make your own stencil? mutantmanifesto fucked around with this message at Oct 13, 2009 around 23:45 |
| # ? Oct 13, 2009 23:43 |
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I just made this one. You can get it here, http://pumpkinglow.com/Patterns.htm along with Alan Alda, Michael Landon, and John Wesely founder of Methodist movement of all people.
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| # ? Oct 13, 2009 23:54 |
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Here's a pumpkin I made last year from a pattern I made. I'm still trying to decide on what I want to carve this year. Click here for the full 1936x1720 image.
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| # ? Oct 14, 2009 00:08 |
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That predator's mouth looks like a huge gaping snatch.
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| # ? Oct 14, 2009 01:20 |
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Lammy! posted:That predator's mouth looks like a huge gaping snatch. it totally does. Unfortunately it has teeth. Giant teeth.
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| # ? Oct 14, 2009 01:43 |
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I'm carving my first pumpkin this year. I bought it like, a week and a half ago but still haven't picked a design because I don't want to mess up my first one and look like a dummy to the entire neighborhood 
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| # ? Oct 14, 2009 01:50 |
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luscious posted:it totally does. Unfortunately it has teeth. Giant teeth. Don't they all?
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| # ? Oct 14, 2009 01:56 |
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posts in thread, puts on helmet and cape, shoots retarded girlfriend, pumpkins safe for another year garfield.
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| # ? Oct 14, 2009 01:58 |
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Sockser posted:I'm carving my first pumpkin this year. I bought it like, a week and a half ago but still haven't picked a design because I don't want to mess up my first one and look like a dummy to the entire neighborhood What the hell man, it is a pumpkin you can't mess it up! Personally I like the traditional scary faced jack-o-lanterns with the pointy teeth and triangle nose.
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| # ? Oct 14, 2009 02:04 |
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This is my effort from last year, having not carved one in years. Click here for the full 2048x1536 image.
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| # ? Oct 14, 2009 02:14 |
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Here's what I did last year. Not overly complicated but it's all about the gradients:
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| # ? Oct 14, 2009 02:26 |
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 Goatse-o'-LanternThe detail is what makes it.
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| # ? Oct 14, 2009 02:26 |
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Whizbang posted:
No ring on his finger? Than again, that would probably be a bitch to try and figure out how to make it work.
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| # ? Oct 14, 2009 02:29 |
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nildrohain454 posted:No ring on his finger? Than again, that would probably be a bitch to try and figure out how to make it work. Not really, just half carve it through the pumpkin such that it glows  edit:btw get one of these things, it'll make opening up the pumpkin and carving simpler designs so much easier: http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ct...temnumber=46055 mcrandello fucked around with this message at Oct 14, 2009 around 02:35 |
| # ? Oct 14, 2009 02:32 |
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Tremors posted:Here's a pumpkin I made last year from a pattern I made. I'm still trying to decide on what I want to carve this year. The only logical answer is to make one with the graboids that can fly, from the next movie in the series I think it is? They called them 'rear end blasters' I believe. Great detail on your previous pumpkin...
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| # ? Oct 14, 2009 02:38 |
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The mortal kombat logo makes for a fairly easy carve. I do it every year but this time I might start doing something more involved. Thanks for the stencil link.
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| # ? Oct 14, 2009 03:12 |
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Did Majora's Mask last year. Not sure what I'm doing yet for this year 
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| # ? Oct 14, 2009 04:01 |
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If you hate yourself, get the Pumpkin Masters Xtreme pattern book. My results: Click here for the full 800x600 image. Not from the book, but still my favorite design I've ever carved:  This thread is inspiring me! Monkey Lincoln posted:Scraping away at the skin of the pumpkin into whatever design you want so that light sort of shines through, without actually cutting holes in it, is for sissies who can't carve pumpkins. TheNinjaScotsman fucked around with this message at Oct 14, 2009 around 04:59 |
| # ? Oct 14, 2009 04:55 |
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In a response to the "Real Men Cut Holes": usually I do. The only reason I scraped last year was because there is no way to properly bridge an NES controller. Scraping was merely a last resort.
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| # ? Oct 15, 2009 05:12 |
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We like pumpkin carving! I did the first two and my husband did the Tom Waits pumpkin. Every year we invite friends over, carve pumpkins like mad and eat chili. It's always a good time.   
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| # ? Oct 15, 2009 06:34 |
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Here are a few I have done in the past few years. I get all my stencils form the zombie pumpkins site. I just don't understand all the hate for the shaved pumpkins I do both. Sometimes it just looks better shaved them when you carve it all out. http://img.waffleimages.com/8e92393...da/100_1348.jpg http://img.waffleimages.com/b7addd8...7b/100_1392.jpg http://img.waffleimages.com/0865af2...b0/100b1190.jpg http://img.waffleimages.com/bcf1acb.../1031060333.jpg http://img.waffleimages.com/d81b528...53/100_1318.jpg Ruination fucked around with this message at Oct 15, 2009 around 07:06 |
| # ? Oct 15, 2009 06:52 |
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lovely cellphone pic, but you get the idea! Sadly I didn't even get a chance to light it as an opossum or raccoon ate it later that day/dusk/night Click here for the full 1280x960 image.
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| # ? Oct 15, 2009 07:58 |
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I was thinking about getting someone here to turn this image into one of those black/grey/white stencils for me like someone did last year, but I think it would be too detailed to cut. https://www.madman.com.au/wallpaper...se_328_1680.jpg I'm trying to think of something metal related that would be possible to do. I'm thinking of album covers, but most wouldn't work well with a stencil or would be too hard. Any ideas would be appreciated.
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| # ? Oct 15, 2009 23:39 |
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Alright, so plan changed, totally blowing that up and carving Murderface's head. If pumpkins are cheap enough I'll probably carve up a Toki, too.
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| # ? Oct 16, 2009 07:35 |
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Yea it's really a great image in that it's essentially already in stencil form. I wanted to do all of them, but I think it would be too intricate. Maybe zooming in and cropping all of their faces out into an Olympic rings looking design to make sure they fit on the pumpkin. I wonder if there is a way to stencil this: 
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| # ? Oct 16, 2009 07:52 |
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Here are the ones the wife and I carved last year.  We are having our third annual carving party with some friends tonight. I havent picked my design yet, but Im headed over to zombie pumpkins now thanks to the OP.
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| # ? Oct 16, 2009 16:43 |
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Locknine posted:Wow, that's so cool. I ran across this pumpkin a couple years back and loved the pattern so much that I did it too. Never knew who made the pattern originally tho.  I take carving pretty seriously, here's what I've carved from '01-'08:    Edit 2: Thought I'd list out who each one is: Self portrait, Austin Powers, Dr. Evil, 4 Tarintino ones, Bob Marley, Hunter S Thompson, my brother riding a huge turtle statue, Stevie Ray Vaughan's Strat, Big Lebowski 3 parter, my friend's dad, Tom Waits, Carl Sagan, my other brother, Obama, Starry Night And the 2 I've carved so far this year: Dexter and Sir David Attenborough   Edit: Time lapse video of me carving the Attenborough one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUtpdV1Nt90 Rofro fucked around with this message at Oct 18, 2009 around 19:11 |
| # ? Oct 18, 2009 10:36 |
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If anyone was wondering, I learned to carve like this from this website: http://www.carvingpumpkins.com/ I use fairly simple tools as well, a pushpin to transfer the pattern, an exacto and a 1/4" wood chisel for scraping, and a little saw that I got in a pumpkin kit. The rest is just patience and practice.
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| # ? Oct 18, 2009 17:59 |
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Rofro posted:
That's amazing.
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| # ? Oct 18, 2009 18:07 |
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Rofro posted:
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| # ? Oct 18, 2009 19:01 |
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Rowzdower posted:Is that a Carl Sagan pumpkin I see? If so that's awesome. It is indeed. Carl Sagan and David Attenborough changed the way I understand the universe.
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| # ? Oct 18, 2009 19:07 |
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Kind of hard to see what's going on, but mine's on the right:
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| # ? Oct 18, 2009 19:48 |
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  In honour of our record setting cold snap, I went with a winter theme.
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| # ? Oct 19, 2009 04:37 |
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After pulling off a decent Face Bones last year, I decided to try something a little harder. I apologize for the lovely cell-phone pic, but it's all I have right now. I present - The House-O-Lantern Click here for the full 1600x1200 image.
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| # ? Oct 19, 2009 04:57 |
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Holy poo poo, I have to give each and every one of you respect for your talents. I came into this thread thinking I would see some typical cut/glowing pumpkins. I had NO idea the amount of talent that would be expressed. I hope I can carve something that begins to look as good as those ya'll have created.
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| # ? Oct 19, 2009 05:10 |
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I want to make a jackolantern of the program director of my graduate school. Right now I can only find small pictures of him (110x132 pixels) but provided that I can get a bigger one, what do I do to the picture in photoshop/GIMP to get the best picture for carving? How big of a picture do I need? For the record, I haven't carved a pumpkin in over a decade when two triangles and a toothy smile was all you needed. (though a bowtie will need to be included) Evil Adam fucked around with this message at Oct 19, 2009 around 05:42 |
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