Thanks! Kind of hard for me to compare the difficulty to be honest. It's the first time I've tried a carving where you only go part way thru, so haven't done that on a real pumpkin at all. I will say that cutting all the way thru seems harder IF you're using the typical carving tools. But I found a tutorial using a heated knife on these fakes and my son had the exact one (a heated multi-tool for woodburng, cutting, etc) so I tried that and it was like butter! For the partial cuts I would cut the outline with the heated knife (being very careful not to go all the way thru!) and then carve it out with a Dremel. Also used the knife to cut into the corners and to cut a V-groove for outlining.