Post #252291 by crazy al on Mon, Sep 4, 2006 9:28 AM

holy feeeeeeeken crap!!! now we are talken!!! TIKI!!

sounds like a real Hawaiian story here... great artwork and an artist a little on the fringe.....

back when i started reproducing my necklaces ten years back, i thought if i reproduced a Hawaiian artist's work I'd have more success with sales.... I had a contact over on Maui trying to hook me up. His response was that he could never get a hold of the carvers... they were nomadic and in and out of jail...

good to know somethings never change.

P.S. when he did find one it took 20 minutes to explain my piece was resin not wood.... good to know somethings don't change...
AND!! also!!! my 'Hawaiian contact' stills owes me $300 ten years later!! a local HB S.Cal guy who thought we would make it big selling tiki in Hawaii ten years ago... tiki was no-existent over there then and the locals shut him down with certain 'preshures'... any way the guy would not return my phone calls when i eventually made it to Maui on my own years later... 'tiki' as we know it today was still not local to Hawaii but in select locations....
I made my own contact with a carver who was very excited to get his work reproduce... but he never returned my 'Letter' to him.

[ Edited by: crazy al 2006-09-04 09:50 ]