Post #21911 by crazy al on Tue, Feb 4, 2003 11:26 AM

Hey check it out! Tom has taken the graphic shallow carving of the Great Bosko and added “Mai Tiki” faces.... Ingenious! His already made more money carving tiki then I’ve ever dreamed of. If you’re into sucking saw dust... I say GO TOM GO! you rock.

There is another S.Cal carver, another tree trimmer now tiki carver (Dana Point / Whittier), that has taken the graphic nature of my mouths and added MaiTiki Teeth! Goes by “TikiKing” (imagine that). I couldn’t believe how much money he said he made carving tikis. Makes me not want to be such a lazy, primmadanna, art freak. I could use the money.

For the record this ‘TikiKing’ is a second generation ‘Crazy AL’ tiki carver. He started carving tikis after he hired another tree trimmer that was carving tikis. This other tree trimmer ‘Jeff’ started carving tikis after he found me snagging his cut down logs off the street. His question to me was, “ you carve tikis? And sell them?” Jeff is quite a character, just ask BaxDog. I hope to document Jeff’s tikis some day. He started off with very unique creations and soon succumbed to a more generic style.