Thread: A Pumpkin Carving Horror Story

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So I recently made a short video about my pumpkin carving experience a couple years ago. Here it is...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6jW7s_mJr4

As the story goes, my girlfriend and I were carving a pumpkin with an awful Walgreens-quality "carver" when the blade simply broke off. Seeing as how all we really had lying around were nothing but paint scrapers and screwdrivers, we decided to ask our neighbors for help (our only hope, it seemed).

They wound up being sooooo grateful that we visited them and asked for help. They were more than happy to let us use their carver. The minute they handed it to us though, we couldn't stop laughing, as it was the EXACT same one that we had broke just hours before.

Of course, it wasn't nearly as dramatic as the video I ended up making about it, but it sure makes for good entertainment! Hope you guys enjoy it!

Hah, extremely photogenic kitty kat! I'm at work so I won't be able to hear the audio until I get home tonight

I've broken nearly every commercial pumpkin saw out there except for the lid cutters mostly due to lack of patience to do the "use the poker first" thing. I gave up and built my own saws, but the thing that helped the most was to sharpen the tips of the saws. They don't have to be sharpened well, just pointy, that way you can easily stab the pumpkin without bending them.

Originally Posted by Xane

Hah, extremely photogenic kitty kat! I'm at work so I won't be able to hear the audio until I get home tonight

I've broken nearly every commercial pumpkin saw out there except for the lid cutters mostly due to lack of patience to do the "use the poker first" thing. I gave up and built my own saws, but the thing that helped the most was to sharpen the tips of the saws. They don't have to be sharpened well, just pointy, that way you can easily stab the pumpkin without bending them.

How'd you make your own saws?

That's why I bought one of these bad boys from Michaels.



EDIT: Not my hand or scooper.

Originally Posted by Crunch

How'd you make your own saws?

Take a dowel a little thicker than a pencil, cut a slot in the top and epoxy saw blades into it. I used the smallest jigsaw blades I could find (the teeth have to face away from you, so you have to snap off the base of the saw and glue the tip into the handle. For detail carving, I used coping saw blades, you can usually get 2 or 3 saws out of each blade. I actually used narrow plastic pipe (water line) with epoxy putty instead of dowels but I think the wood would be better. Wait a day to make sure the epoxy is hardened all the way, then sharpen the tip of the saw on a grinder.