Post #237465 by Bay Park Buzzy on Mon, Jun 12, 2006 2:44 PM

I wanted to start a new one yesterday. I took all my tools outside and started to look at the log. RING!!! went the phone. It was my brother. He needs to stay here this week. Crap! My house is a disaster. I ended up cleaning the house all day. I do not want my brother to tell my mom about how I live in a big pile of woodchips and dust.
Anyway, while I was cleaning, I found a scrap of paper with a list on it. The list was written by me at work the first time zi found this site. I spent the whole day looking at almost every thread on the first 5 pages or so. Lots of stuff to see in one day. Knowing that it would be hard to find certain pictures for reference later on, I jotted down my favorite tiki artists, based on what I saw that day. this was probably the second place I had ever looked at tikis on the internet and I had only carved one tiki at the time. So here's the list of those who originally inspired me to give his a serious try(in no particular order):
TIKIG -I nicknamed him "florida pro guy" based on all his rows of tikis and his booth at a fair(I had not figured out the author/carver name thread connection thing on here-I was new to internet forums and didn't know about the poster's name-I just took the info off the title)
LAKE SURFERS WORLD OF CHISELED WOOD-No notes and I didn't need a nickname because it's easy to remember someone who surfs and carves where he does
CHAINSAW BY GMAN-Then I have PG 3 (xxx) written by it. Before I knew him as Gman- he was the d*&^% guy(nickname based on pg 3 pictures, not what I think of him)
BASEMENT KAHUNA-Nickname=Cool weapons Hawaiian shirt kung fu dude (first impressions sometimes hold)
BENZART_-"Cool faces, good carver dude" From day one...It's all been said
about him. I'm late to hop on the bandwagon, but it's a great ride.
It was a total thrill for me the first time each of these people posted on my thread. If I ever get rich and famous, you guys can be in my posse. We'll make a tiki mansion on my own private island. Someday, keep in touch guys...
All these guys, and everyone else on this site for which I've admired the work done since, you all make me bust my ass everyday just to keep up. So, word time over.
Started this one today...
3'8" Mexican fan palm, 10 inch diameter


I'm just kind of going to let this one fall together. I have some new tools, it's a fresh log of the highest quality, and it's a beautiful day.
I hope my brother doesn't mind me working all night. Last summer when he was here, I had not started carving yet. Boy how things change in a year. Or even a month. Or...
Work time...