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It's time to carve some goddamn pumpkins. How are you not doing it already? It's October. Do it. I prefer relief carving, so I use a small Fiskars knife like this:  I peel the surface with a vegetable peeler and cut off the parts that aren't a face or whatever. Here i my first one of the year this year:  I also use small wood carving gouges for some of the stuff.  My favorite are these tiny Wee-B-Little pumpkins:   They make fun designs easily and quickly, but the grocery store started to lacquer the goddamn things so you can't carve them. What is that bullshit? Anyway, please do some. They are fun. 
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freeedr posted:They make fun designs easily and quickly, but the grocery store started to lacquer the goddamn things so you can't carve them. What is that bullshit? Most people don't carve them and the lacquer means it doesn't rot til like Christmas. Anyway, cool poo poo OP. Do a Hank Hill pumpkin I tell ya what.
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Oct 3, 2019 18:28
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kinda want to make a goatse pumpkin. theres no trick or treating in my neighborhood really, just drug abuse
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Oct 3, 2019 18:45
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it's missing the ring
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Oct 3, 2019 18:46
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Do these still look cool lit up? I like your pumps op
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Oct 3, 2019 19:46
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It’s pukkin season! 
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Oct 3, 2019 19:50
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Look at Mr. Fancy Pants over here. I crave my pumpkins the same way I've been doing for years. Poorly.
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Oct 3, 2019 20:10
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There's a guy that paints Garfield on a pumpkin every year for work. When he brings it in I'll get a picture.
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Oct 3, 2019 20:23
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freeedr posted:It's time to carve some goddamn pumpkins. How are you not doing it already? It's October. Do it. 
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Oct 3, 2019 20:46
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Do you have any Christian carvings
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Oct 3, 2019 20:52
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Do you have any Christian carvings Technically they are all Christian carvings because my name is Christian. 
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Oct 3, 2019 21:09
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Do you have any Christian carvings All pukkins are satanic. 
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Oct 3, 2019 21:31
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I hear soaking in a bleach solution delays pumpkin rot. I also hear WD-40 displaces enough water to get the job done. Hairspray supposedly seals the pumpkin even when it is sweating after you cut it, because it’s designed to dry on even if your hair is damp. Personally, I let them rot and replace them with the new ones until the season is over. There’s something zen about your hard work withering away in front of you until you can no longer redo it. Such is life.  This one was lacquered.
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Oct 4, 2019 00:54
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What kind of lacquer do you use and how long does it last? I ask out of curiosity but I’d rather let them wither naturally too.
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Oct 4, 2019 02:30
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Snowy posted:What kind of lacquer do you use and how long does it last? I don’t lacquer them. The grocery store does. That’s what the white stuff around that one’s face is. I bought it not realizing it was lacquered. They won’t get me this year, though. I hope I can find some more Wee-B-Little pumpkins at one of the pop-up pumpkin stands in the area. All depends if anyone has grown them. They sell for a dollar each max, so not many farms bother with them. Though I guess if you were so inclined, you could hairspray them to stop them sleeping out fluid and then apply a spray-on lacquer to the cut surfaces. No idea if it would work. Seems like the solvent in the lacquer would destroy the hairspray and it would seep like mad again until it started to whither anyway. I have all of these things, so maybe I’ll try it. 
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Oct 4, 2019 03:27
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Be me 18 years ago riding around smoking blunts in my friends mini van picking up garbage off of your neighbors curb and throwing it all over your lawn, smashing your pumpkins on your front porch and lighting a smoke bomb in your mailbox before ringing your doorbell and whipping a donut in said minivan with the side doors open while screaming fuuuuuuuck you and peeling off leaving nothing but the smell of maple syrup blunt wraps and burning rubber
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Oct 4, 2019 03:40
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Watch out for goons with shotguns buddy
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Oct 4, 2019 06:09
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freeedr posted:Technically they are all Christian carvings because my name is Christian. Really crazy how it go like that sometime
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Oct 4, 2019 06:13
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I’ll post one later in the month I assure you it will be poo poo compared to these lol
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Oct 5, 2019 21:13
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Time makes fools of us all
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Oct 6, 2019 02:13
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But we can bounce back for a while e: To the people that think these are awesome: I assure you these are really easy to make. I have no artistic talent. Get a knife and a peeler and give it a go. Starting with the eye placement is easiest for me. freeedr fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Oct 6, 2019 |
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Oct 6, 2019 02:15
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every halloween I dress like a pumpkin and my friend ronnie dresses like a candle and we go down to denny's and make a jack o' lantern until they call the cops
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Oct 6, 2019 02:36
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:every halloween I dress like a pumpkin and my friend ronnie dresses like a candle and we go down to denny's and make a jack o' lantern until they call the cops Wax dat rear end
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Oct 6, 2019 02:37
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freeedr posted:But we can bounce back for a while Your perspective is cool though regardless of talent.
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Oct 6, 2019 04:05
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Making things look ugly id easier thsn making them look beautiful How about a nice sexy piumpkkn next tkme
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Oct 6, 2019 04:13
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JK Fresco posted:Making things look ugly id easier thsn making them look beautiful  He doesn’t seem interested
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Oct 6, 2019 04:50
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Some very sensual lips I am impressed
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Oct 6, 2019 04:50
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Might do this at work, thanks OP
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Oct 6, 2019 05:34
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Not much carving coming from you lot.
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Oct 7, 2019 03:03
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I'm going to try to do one of those lovecraftian Garfields for my pumpkin but I have zero artistic ability so I'll settle for "mildly disturbing".
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Oct 7, 2019 03:39
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If you make your pumpkin emo it will cut itself e: to be clear, self harm isn’t a joke. If you are harming yourself, talk to someone for help. It isn’t shameful to have problems. Perfect mental health doesn’t exist just like perfect physical health doesn’t exist. Maybe carving a fresh gourd or apple will help you feel better and put that knife to better use. freeedr fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Oct 7, 2019 |
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Oct 7, 2019 19:31
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Anyone who doesn’t immediately slice a piece of fruit into an interesting shape is an rear end in a top hat
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Oct 9, 2019 02:18
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freeedr posted:Anyone who doesn’t immediately slice a piece of fruit into an interesting shape is an rear end in a top hat 
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Oct 9, 2019 02:46
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Makes me wish I didn't have a real job as well
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Oct 9, 2019 06:55
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freeedr posted:Anyone who doesn’t immediately slice a piece of fruit into an interesting shape is an rear end in a top hat 
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Solid work, enough to make me wish I had some skill in the pumpkin arts   I can't get over this guy 
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Oct 10, 2019 05:10
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I'm rootin' for you freeedr. I'd carve a pumpkin but I'm a lazy piece of poo poo and this thread could be fun.
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Oct 10, 2019 07:24
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Can’t carve pumpkins yet. It’s still 90 degrees outside.
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