OK, heres a realy easy pumpkin to carve, Ive done this one dozens of times & it looks realy cool! Enlarge & print this template out (print 2 copies), tape it to your pumpkin & use something like an ice pic to poke holes through the paper & into the pumpkin. Poke holes along all the lines, about a sixteenth of an inch apart, when you remove the template you will see the dots. Use the 2nd copy to distinguish the dots & draw the lines in with a pen. Now, the dark areas will be cut all the way through, the gray areas only have the outer skin removed. Remember, when removing the skin in the gray areas, the deeper you go or the more meat you remove the brighter that area will be. I use an exacto razor blade & wood carving tools to dig the meat out, I use a small hacksaw blade to cut the dark areas all the way through. Also, seems to work better if you cut the dark areas all the way through the pumpkin first. Try it, you will be blown away at how cool it looks & how easy it is to do. PM me if you need help, advice, or encouragement!
Also, here is a pic of my PC...........I used this exact template to cut the side patern, give you an idea of how it looks! And remember, you dont have to cut your pumpkin EXACTLY like the template...........you may think you are screwing it up but finish it & put a light in it. You will be amazed at how cool it looks & so will every one in the neighborhood!
We're both going to dig super great gold coins!
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