Okay, gave it a try on a failed eyeball pumpkin last weekend (see the story in the patterns and stories section if you want). I was gutting from the side, not the usual top or bottom, and manuevering was a hair more difficult, but this thing made short work of the gutting process. I did find I gripp...

Man, I thought I had this sucker figured out. I was gonna transform a pumpkin into a giant eyeball. The bottom would be the iris and the pupil, and the stem would be the eyestalk. So, I painted on a black pupil and left a 2 inch ring of rind around it for the iris. After marking a some large squiggl...

There are some sculpted pumpkins that, due to the design, benefit from a bottom cut since you need the top intact. I'll be doing one just like that here in a day or two. When doing a classic jack, though, I'm a top cut guy for the many practical reasons listed already - plus bottom cuts hinder evapo...

Boy, let me tell ya... If you like the sculpting work of removing rind in thin lines and tight corners, and getting perfect control over how much flesh you leave in a certain spot, it's hard to beat these little tools. 4 Piece Hollow-Head Wax Carving Tool Set You can also find them at Amazon for abo...

Wow! Very nice design in deed! Do you normally design your own patterns for your pumpkins? Yes, but I don't do a lot of images like that anymore. Initally when I purchased a Pumpkin Masters kit, my first thought was "waitaminute, I can draw designs like this", so I starting working at it. I've been...

There it is.

Yep, that's the one. No idea if there is still a paper print available.

I have no idea if it's still available. Does Pumpkin Masters release past year pattern books for sale?

I might consider that. My copy is kinda funkified.

Excellent!

I look forward to your critique. I'll post one as well here in the next week or so.

Yeah, if you look up "Harvest Moon" you'll see me listed as "***** Barrett, Contest Winner" and the year. I'll see if I can post some stuff soon. Got a party comin' up, and after all the talk of an Eyeball pumpkin, I decided, yeah, what the heck, I'll see what I can come up with. It fits the theme a...

Second post, but I had to bring this up. I stopped in Michael's tonight, thinking I might get a second look at their Monster Scoop, and instead I spotted something else entirely. Pumpkin Masters has a scoop I've never seen before. It's not even on their website. It's not that Deluxe scraper scoop wi...

Hey, gang. Tired of lurking and learning and not jumpin' in. Glad to be here. Currently a resident of Oklahoma, and I have an orange thumb, as it were. Love carving, designing, sculpting, the whole thing. If you've been a fan of Pumpkin Masters patterns for a while, I got lucky back in 1999. I was a...