Post #190472 by SCTikiShack on Mon, Oct 3, 2005 2:56 PM

Hello Tiki Centralites,

If been rather absent on this website lately due to vacation and a hectic living. Luckily for you, I found some time today to post a little topic. A few months ago, there was a topic that asked why people weren't carving more mask style tikis. I was thinking, if this person could only see my backyard.

At an Aloha grill's B-Day event, my best customer saw some of my masks and he decided that he wanted 9 of them. He had previously purchase an expensive 9 footer, but didn't balk when I told him the price.

A few months later several tikis started to take form. Carving these masks can be quite difficult, because one missed swipe of the chainsaw your tiki can be in two pieces. This is especially true around the mouth area.

Another challenging part of this order was making each one different. Since I free hand them (never trace them out) the shape and design of each tiki was emerged while in the carving process. there are some interesting features that I added to a few of these tikis.

It looks like this guy got in one too may fights at the pub.

You better not get on this tikis bad side or he might stab you.

This tiki is flashing the double bro-bro shaka.

Thank you all for reading my little topic. I will be posting many more in the future.

Will

[ Edited by: SCTikiShack 2005-10-03 14:58 ]