Post #255109 by Tiki G. on Mon, Sep 18, 2006 9:01 AM

AA, thanks for the post. Sorry for the delayed reply. Did not realize it was there till Gman bumped it up. Thanks G.

Not much here, just wanted to drop a note and post a pic taken down at "Benzart's Pad" the weekend before last. Trish and I drove down to Merritt Island to hang out with the "Mctiki's" again, and also managed to squeeze in a short trip down to visit with Ben for a few hours. Needless to say, we came back with an even greater respect for this man than we already had. It was awesome sitting and listening to his stories and seeing pictures of his carving past. Amazing the amount of talent this one man holds, not just for carving tikis, but for ANYTHING he put's his mind to. We also learned a few lessons (x-trade secrets) from Ben with some of his tools of choice. Cool seeing how his choice of tools work for him to do what he does. Also, being the nice generous person that he is, we managed to get loaded up with a few pieces of aerated concrete, and some very nice blanks of Mahogany to try our hand's at some smaller, finger cutting stuff.

Ben thanks again. We had a very nice visit with you. We will surely be back again one day, and this time we're dragging Mctiki down with us;)