Post #149654 by Palama Tiki on Mon, Mar 28, 2005 5:58 AM

In between other 'homework assignments' I managed to get these two projects finished. this is tiki #3 roughed out...

at this stage, he sat drying in my garage for 2 weeks while i worked on other projects; as i carved into him this weekend, he turned out to be a wet stringy mess; like carving into a spaghetti squash. then i remembered the blowtorch... and all was well with the world.

This is him after many torch & sand iterations... with apologies to KreepyTiki..

i hollowed out his head, since it was a stringy mess...

and after a coat of polyurethane...

his new home at the lake...

I also carved a pedestal out of pine (hurricane wood); i'm going to carve a full-body tiki to place on the pedestal.

i copied a Disney design for the pedestal that i've seen at the Polynesian resort and also in front of the new Tiki room at Disneyland; of course it doesn't look as good as the Disney work, but i do like carving the pine. no strings!

Thanks for looking...

[ Edited by: Palama Tiki on 2005-03-28 06:48 ]