Helped my niece with this one this weekend. She drew it, I did the knife work. It's Harry Pumpkin
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Does anyone carve pumpkins?
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Natdavis777
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Some pumpkins I did a few years ago
What'd you use a dremel to cut those out? We had such thick walled pumpkins that I would have ended up punching my hand through it trying to get that close of cuts.
LoneTreeFarms
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very nice! it takes a while with that much detail, atleast for me it does but I'm all thumbs, haha.
say your primary says pb stout. which recipe did you end up going with? looking at doing up a pb and a choc milk stout in the future. just put deception stout in the keg but haven't sampled it yet.
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Tried to do a hop this year:
Natdavis777
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This beer was tricky. I used my milk stout recipe without the lactose. Pulled some wort before I killed the boil, mixed in 16oz of PB2, brought it to a boil on the stove, cooled some, then added half to each carboy (10gal). Cooled and transferred the remaining amount of wort as normal. After fermentation, I added another 1lb of PB2 to each carboy and let sit for another 7 days, crashed and kegged. The sample I pulled had a little peanut butter nose and flavor, but not significant enough. Since I was already adding a chocolate tincture to each keg, I figured this would cover up some of the PB flavor, so I ended up adding 2oz of PB extract to each keg. Helped tremendously. The beer was good, but was still a touch on the bitter side, so I added 8 of the small reeses cups to a sanitized bag per keg, and have them suspended by a string. Rounded everything out perfectly. Overall, I wasnt too satisfied with the PB2 in the beer. Seems like you need to add a crapload. Ill just stick with it in my protein shakes.
Sorry for being so lengthy. (If I had a nickle...:cross
Tried to do a hop this year:
Sure you aren't in Colorado or Washington state?
Edit.... Okay, never mind. Sure people will think it is a hop?
Roadie
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Usually we thin the walls of the pumpkin where we will be cutting. I personally use a steel ice cream scooper to thin the walls and it does a really good job.
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Thin from the inside, I'm assuming?
I'm planning on doing one with some intricate cuts today, thinning sounds like a good plan.
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I've now broken a few pumpkin saws. going to see if they have something suitable at Lowes.
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OK. how do you do the super small cuts?
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Very carefully?
Kidding, I don't do really intricate ones that often, so may not be the best for those cuts. But I'm going to give it a shot tonight.
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Those are awesome! good job!
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Why, thank you!
I tried using a drill to put holes in the pumpkin so I could fake the appearance of carved lines, in addition to carving out areas. It didn't work as well as I would have liked - You have to be close to see it. Still worked well enough though!
I tried using a drill to put holes in the pumpkin so I could fake the appearance of carved lines, in addition to carving out areas. It didn't work as well as I would have liked - You have to be close to see it. Still worked well enough though!
I use this handle from Lowes with a narrow jigsaw blade. Works great and much more comfortable to hold for extended periods of cutting.
http://www.lowes.com/pd_247218-16878-60151___?productId=1070275
For thinning the inside, ice cream scoop for large areas, melon baller for small areas.
On designs where I'm not cutting through, or for precise detail cuts on the skin I use a pencil handle exacto knife.
On designs where I'm not cutting through, or for precise detail cuts on the skin I use a pencil handle exacto knife.
Roadie
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Yes, from the inside. I go vertically from the bottom toward the top and it works great.
But doesn't thinning the wall so much cause pumpkin meth mouth?
LoneTreeFarms
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I ordered one of these. they're on back order but as far as cleaning pumpkins it's the best that I've seen. as for the saws I use the little ones that came with the kids kits for the small cuts and like said earlier a drywall saw for the big cuts.
I ordered one of these. they're on back order but as far as cleaning pumpkins it's the best that I've seen. as for the saws I use the little ones that came with the kids kits for the small cuts and like said earlier a drywall saw for the big cuts.
paperairplane
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Jig saw works well if you have to go power tool.
A thin coat of motor oil will preserve a pumpkin nicely and prevent mold.
A thin coat of motor oil will preserve a pumpkin nicely and prevent mold.
TheCADJockey
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Don't make it so difficult, just get a Dremel.
Game over.
Game over.
hunter_le five
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Ooohhh... a dremil.
OMG what is wrong with me?
OMG what is wrong with me?
MaddBaggins
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We carve some every year but we have to wait until the day before Halloween. Otherwise, they dry out and shrink before the Trick or Treaters come by. The heat and dry air mess up a pumpkin pretty fast around here.
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My favorite from the web. So demented. That movie was horrible.
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Carved this cemetery thing up in like 10 minutes. I'll never tell how many toothpicks were used to put **** back together.
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re: detailed pumpkins don't last long at all
We sprayed all cut edges with PAM and stuck in the fridge. Put outside when really ready, they kept pretty good. The oil decreased the evaporation that kills the shape. But the oil soaked in some too. Never caught on fire from it, but we were worried a little.
This was only for morning/midday to night though.
We sprayed all cut edges with PAM and stuck in the fridge. Put outside when really ready, they kept pretty good. The oil decreased the evaporation that kills the shape. But the oil soaked in some too. Never caught on fire from it, but we were worried a little.
This was only for morning/midday to night though.
gratus fermentatio
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We got 6 pumpkins gutted two nights ago. Haven't had time to plan anything, let alone carve!
Maybe after the football game tonight we can sit down and chop a few holes in these things.
I also got some squash, like an acorn, but yellow/red, and cooked that up two nights ago when we got back from the farm. Was pretty tasty.
Maybe after the football game tonight we can sit down and chop a few holes in these things.
I also got some squash, like an acorn, but yellow/red, and cooked that up two nights ago when we got back from the farm. Was pretty tasty.
xandersaml
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WOW! Too cool. :rockin:
My favorite pumpkin website: http://www.extremepumpkins.com/ , especially the Pumpkin Pyrotechnics section.
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I done this just meow. Googled Mike Wazowski Pumpkins and free handed this to my skill level. I'm happy with it.
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I am the first to admit I have little fab talent, but this was fun.
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