Pineapple head - Tiki Carving

S SCTikiShack Member Joined: Aug 02, 2004 Posts: 151	S SCTikiShack Posted posted on Sat, Dec 18, 2004 12:13 PM Hello again Tiki Centralites. Many of you requested that I send more pictures and articles, this made me feel all warm and fuzzy about myself. Therefore, I will be more that happy to keep sending more Creating Tiki articles. This story is about a type of tiki that I like to call pineapple head. Some time next week I will add some pictures of older pineapple heads, if I can get my co-worker to scan them in for me, so you can see the progression that I have made over the years. About half a year ago, all of a sudden, I got qute a demand for this certain type of tiki. The first one was adorning my front yard and got stolen (I got it back however), the second is now living at Aloha Grill, and the third one (which I will be talking about today) is proctecting a cool longboarder surf cat's backyard. When this fellow first contacted me via e-mail he stated that he wanted a tiki and that he was a serious buyer. I was thinking a serious buyer, all right, those are my favorite type. However, when he came by my house to talk shop, I decided to give him a fair deal($800) and not charge a premium($1,500). We went through my photo album, and of course, he chose Mr. Pineapple head. I was thinking great, he chose the one that is the most tedious face tiki of mine to create. Because of all the cuts that this headpiece requires, you have to be very careful not to mess it up while rough cutting it with a chainsaw. Sanding it is no bowl of cherries either. After a few months, the tiki was finally finished and I went to drop it off at it's newly adopted parents house. FYI, I like to compare my Tikis to Cabbage Patch Kids, each one is different and gets adopted by a family who is supposed to love and cherish it(Even though it might not be true, I like to believe it is). Upon arriving at the gentleman's house I couldn't believe my eyes, he had this killer tropical back yard with a large koy pond and a custom slate sunken in hottub. He was overjoyed about his tiki. SCTiki Shack's mission statement is to make it's customers so happy that they ooze. After all business transactions were completed he invited me into his beautiful French Riveria style house. I couldn't believe my eyes, inside his house were around 30 replica surfboards created by the original masters such as Pat Curren, Greg Knoll, etc. Many of these were made out of redwood burls, which aren't cheap. I assume that they probably run around $5,000.00 to $10,000.00 each, quite the expensive hobby. I was told that eventually these boards might be put into a museum for everyone to enjoy. Enough of my jargon, below is a couple of pictures of the pineapple tiki I have been spewing about. I will add on to this story when I am able to post some other pictures of older ones. I wish everyone out there who is reading my article a Merry Christmas. I am going on a trip next week to visit family so I might not be able to reply right away. Thanks, Will SCTikis

Hello again Tiki Centralites.
Many of you requested that I send more pictures and articles, this made me feel all warm and fuzzy about myself. Therefore, I will be more that happy to keep sending more Creating Tiki articles.

This story is about a type of tiki that I like to call pineapple head. Some time next week I will add some pictures of older pineapple heads, if I can get my co-worker to scan them in for me, so you can see the progression that I have made over the years.

About half a year ago, all of a sudden, I got qute a demand for this certain type of tiki. The first one was adorning my front yard and got stolen (I got it back however), the second is now living at Aloha Grill, and the third one (which I will be talking about today) is proctecting a cool longboarder surf cat's backyard.
When this fellow first contacted me via e-mail he stated that he wanted a tiki and that he was a serious buyer. I was thinking a serious buyer, all right, those are my favorite type. However, when he came by my house to talk shop, I decided to give him a fair deal($800) and not charge a premium($1,500). We went through my photo album, and of course, he chose Mr. Pineapple head. I was thinking great, he chose the one that is the most tedious face tiki of mine to create. Because of all the cuts that this headpiece requires, you have to be very careful not to mess it up while rough cutting it with a chainsaw. Sanding it is no bowl of cherries either.

After a few months, the tiki was finally finished and I went to drop it off at it's newly adopted parents house. FYI, I like to compare my Tikis to Cabbage Patch Kids, each one is different and gets adopted by a family who is supposed to love and cherish it(Even though it might not be true, I like to believe it is). Upon arriving at the gentleman's house I couldn't believe my eyes, he had this killer tropical back yard with a large koy pond and a custom slate sunken in hottub.
He was overjoyed about his tiki. SCTiki Shack's mission statement is to make it's customers so happy that they ooze.

After all business transactions were completed he invited me into his beautiful French Riveria style house. I couldn't believe my eyes, inside his house were around 30 replica surfboards created by the original masters such as Pat Curren, Greg Knoll, etc. Many of these were made out of redwood burls, which aren't cheap. I assume that they probably run around $5,000.00 to $10,000.00 each, quite the expensive hobby. I was told that eventually these boards might be put into a museum for everyone to enjoy.

Enough of my jargon, below is a couple of pictures of the pineapple tiki I have been spewing about. I will add on to this story when I am able to post some other pictures of older ones.

I wish everyone out there who is reading my article a Merry Christmas.
I am going on a trip next week to visit family so I might not be able to reply right away.

Thanks,
Will

SCTikis

Post #131752 by SCTikiShack on Sat, Dec 18, 2004 12:13 PM