Tom Nardone: Hi! I'm Tom from ExtremePumpkins.com. We are going to turn this pear-
shaped pumpkin into a skull. So let's look at how we're going to do that.
First, we turn it upside down, so it looks more like a skull, and this is
going to be where the face is. I don't want to disturb the top or the bottom
of this pumpkin. I'm actually going to cut a big hole in the back here and
take the seeds out in that area. So I'm using my drywall saw, which is a
tool that electricians use to put outlet holes in drywall. I'm going to cut a
big hole in the back of this pumpkin's head. See this little jog I put in
there, that will help me put the plug back in the right spot every time. Here
we go.
Now you can see, I'll be able to get in here with my ice-cream scoop and
scoop out all of these seeds. Here is a tip for you, a lot of people like to
carve a pumpkin, and they’ll scrape and then pull the seeds out, scrape and
pull the seeds out. That's immature all the way, here's how the pros do it.
They scrape down everything it wants, have this big ball of seeds and
goop in there, but it doesn't bother me, I'm making sure, I scrape all the
sides of the walls. Then, take it out once, and I dump it into the trashcan,
one shot. See, all cleaned. Also, just for good measure, I'm going to scrape
the inside of this thing too, to get all that fibrous material out. Just makes
it easier to carve, I'm not actually sure we're going to do anything with this
piece, but, it can hurt. There we go. We've got a gutted pumpkin. In our
next clip, we're going to draw a face on it and we're going to carve it.