Post #257209 by haikai on Wed, Sep 27, 2006 6:09 AM

Aloha friends,

First I want to say thanks very much to
Tiki Duddy, tiki5-0, AlohaStation, Benzart, congatiki, GMAN, JohnnyP and Paipo
for your nice and constitutive words above the Bloom Crown Tiki and the Tekoteko.
For reading your coments, it was just worthwhile to carve them. :D

Thanks again Tiki Duddy, kingstiedye, tikigap and Benzart for your words
about Peter´s Lono pendant.
It was one of my most difficult carving, because of the size and the hardness.
But I had also much fun with it.

Surely kingstiedye, I could make one for you!
I´m very happy that I´ll create a new penant for your amazing colection.

Hey Benzart, the little Lono pendant is from cherry wood. Thanks again!

Two weeks ago, I came back from my holidays in France.
It was a realy cool trip to the sea side and I visited a few great museums.
I think one of the best, I have seen was the French Marine Museum at Brest.
It´s in an old port castle from the 16. century and is full of old things
from the conquerors of the 18. - 19. century.

It was so cool, I felt like an old bearded seaman, everywhere you can see
old cannons, epees, anchors, ship models and all the original wood carvings from the big ships.

Another interesting trip was to vistit the biggest sea aquarium in Europe. The Océanapolis at Brest.
Pretty fishes, turtles and lot of more interesting things for discovering.
Even, they have some polynesian objects.

And the best experience was to sit in the sand, carve a Tiki and watch to the sea.
Finaly, France is a realy beautiful country!

Her are some impessions:

A polynesian native on a turtle and a part of adornment from an old ship. (Marine Museum at Brest)

And here are some beautiful south sea artworks. (Océanapolis)

The coast of Brignogan. The best place, were I have ever carved a Tiki.

That´s the treasure, That I found on the beach!
I´ll use the mussels for my new Tiki cellektion next year.

The right place for pirates and seamans! Vive la France!

O.K. and finally here are some pictures from my latest carving job.
A 6.9 feet high Lono head. For this I used a cottonwood log.
I think cottenwood is realy great for carving. You can work realy fine.

Here is one more picture for you. It´s a present from my buddy Michael (ramba-zamba).
He spend his holidays in Bali and visited some wood carving factories.
There he bought me a pice of crocodile wood. I think it looks very funny
and I´m looking forward how it will work.

Mahalo, Kai