Post #25909 by GECKO on Sun, Mar 9, 2003 7:52 PM

Alohaz peopo,

If you no like pay around $100 a ft fo a tiki, den here get a few pointers fo you fo carve your own ya.

first you get a blank log, like dis wun coconut log I get from da Samoan bruddahs who work in da tree cutting buisness.
A great place fo get logs by da way! (tree cutters) just look in your phone book.

den you get your patern you like carve and draw em on da log wit chalk, fo eazy erase if you go an make mistake.

den you start carving. jus follow da lines

turn da wood around fo make sho da lines you just cut all straight.

if you gon carve em on da kine...cement, you need get some wood to put unda da tiki to protect it from da concrete. I made a mistake wun time and when i finished i had to sand it down again because you could see all da rock patterns indented into da wood....dumb a$$ !!!

i hollowed out da bottom to take off some weight(good fo real heavy logs) you no have to carve nuting on da base. As you see in dis pick i made some holes going all da way around da base. Thats because i gon put a red light in da hollowed spot to show trew da holes at night.

den you finish em wit whatevas you like

if you get space fo display a mug like in da warriors helmet den put em in da space fo get you wun nice tiki mug shrine. or jus leave em empty.

close ups

den carve your name in da back and wala! you wen finished your first tiki and it only took you 7 months! hehe. dats how long it felt on my first wun.

da udda pic is one 6 foot tiki panel i wen made a few days ago. Don the beachcomber use to used these in his bars. Anette, owner of La Mariana, now owns all da Waikiki DTB tiki panels, and has them displayed beautifully in her restaurant. these are great fo display in da tiki bar! dis is da top of da panel

and da bottom of da tiki panel

and from da beautiful south seas, aloha!