Post #208162 by TikiJosh on Tue, Jan 17, 2006 11:49 AM

Hi Ben, thanks for the tip. I'll try using some chisels to smooth that out. Do you just use 'em with a little hand pressure or do you use a mallet? An angle grinder is a luxury I can't afford at the moment.
Poptiki, I got that bamboo at Butler Box and Stake, they're pretty local to me, in Anaheim or Garden Grove, but off the 22 freeway near the 5. I can post a ph. number if anyone's interested, and those poles were CHEAP, way cheaper than I've seen poles that size. My brother and I got them cut in half (split) at Butler, they charged us extra per pole, I wanna say like $1 each, but it was better than trying to do it ourselves. I found these guys in the local yellow pages. They gave us funny looks when we told 'em what we wanted the bamboo for.
By the way, I realized that I never mentioned it in my first post with the picture of the bar, but the tiki that's on the front there is NOT mine. I got that gal unfinished from Oceanic Arts, but I did have to trim the head down a bit for fit (I took about 4-6 inches off the top of the headdress). After I did the cut, stained with something dark brown, I thought it was pretty close to what they use at OA, and it looked good with the dark brown pad around the bar top.
Mahalo to all for the encouragement!