Aloha friends,
sorry, for my late response! Finally I have found the time to answer on your nice entries.
Last week I was very busy, but now I have some new pictures form the big Lono for you. I hope you will enjoy them.
McTiki, thank you! Yes you are right, the cottonwood is smooth grained and so it´s not difficult to make clean cuts.
I realy like to work with this kind of wood.
I´ve never make a fireplace with cottenwood, so I don´t know if it smells like poo.
But thanks for the tipp! So, I won´t try it out. :)
An other handicap is, that you can´t put a cottenwood Tiki outside in your garden.
Mainly here in Germany. The wood is not weatherproof and by the wetness it will molder. What a lovely kind of wood mold and poo!
Thanks Benzart, it´s wonderful to hear such words from the carving master.
I always visit your thread and so I learned many things from you.
So you gave also yourself an compliment. :)
Anytime I will attend on one of your carving seminar.
Hey Paipo, you wrote:
"....I love the museum pieces, it's great to get a look at stuff you may never have the chance to visit."
So you can undersand, how I feel if I ever visit TC and admire your pictures.
You life on so beautiful places all over the world and it´s so far away.
Thanks god for the internet, so we can meet us all.
Last week I met a guy form Auckland on the Oktober Fest and he told me a lot about your country. So I have new information for my dreams.
Yes, I will also create a pendant for you. If it´s O.K. for you, we can change pendants, because I´m also inerestet in one of your beautiful once.
But soonest I could start to carve it in the beginning of November.
Thanks AlohaStation, you caught me! I don´t finished the beach Tiki, yet.
But if the Tiki will be finished, I´ll post some pictures.
Tamapoutini, it´s the biggest compliment I can get for the teko-teko.
Such great words from a New Zealand guy! Thank you very much! :D
Hey Lake Surfer, your are right. Back to the roots!
It´s the best way to carve a Tiki.
Anytime I´ll life on the sea side and enjoy it every day.
Thank you for your flattery.
Thanks JohnnyP, you are right! The Lono is one of my most complex and detail carving. Till now I think I needed about 45 hours for the Lono.
But the next one is going to be faster.
Hey GMAN, I´m honored. Thank you very much!
Sorry, that I have post the pictures so late, but I hadn´t found enough time.
I always need a little bit more time to answer your guys, because my english is not so good.
I learnd it at school but I used it not realy often in the last
few years, so I lost many words. But it´s great to use TC to recreate my english knowledge a little bit.
That´s right, to life and carve on the coast is so awesome!
I hope you enjoy the latest pis from the Lono. Mahalo
IsleConch, thank you! I am very happy about all your nice words about my carving.
Salut benella, ca va? Merci beaucoup pour ta compliment.
Bienvenue chez TC!
I try to finish my works always a little bit different. At the moment I try out to combinate grinded surfaces with cut surfaces.
For the grinded surfaces I use a flex and than a fine sandpaper. For the cut surfaces I use a wide knife.
I love the contrast of the structures.
For the color finish of the Lono, I will use a wood stain.
I have never try it out before and so I´m looking forward how it will work.
I think it´s the most interessting thing to try out always new techniques.
I don´t realy draw my Tikis before. Probably I coulden´t draw my Tikis realy good and I also couldn´t carve a Tiki,
that he realy looks the same like the drawing.
Anywhere, I see an inspiration, like a cool nose, eye, mouth or only an interesting line and than I start to carve it.
Sometimes I make a little sketch, but mostly it don´t realy helps me.
I have the form in my brain and the rest of the Tikis parts will develop between the working progress.
So I´m not quite sure what the Tiki will look like in the end.
Before I start to carve, I give the log a middle line to get the right symetry.
Than I mark the log in the different parts like forehead, eyes, nose, mouth, chin .....and than I start to carve.
To hold the right symetry, I always remeasure the parts on the two halves.
When I´ll start my next bigger carving job, I´ll show it on some pictures.
Please post one of your carvings on TC!
Hey Basement Kahuna, you are realy right! My girlfiend says always the same.:lol:
Thank you very much Tiki Duddy! The wood is realy great for carving. It´s like butter!
And finaly thanks to Capt'n Skully! I hope you will enjoy the next pictures.
Here are some pictures from the last week:
This is Michael, the Lono´s owner. He helped me grinding the Tiki and I gave him a few carving lessons.
And these are the latest pictures from the Lono. I shot them this afternoon.
In the first picture you can see the fixing of the Tiki. The Lono will fix in Michael´s flat in a corner under the roof.
The Lono with my buddy and colleague Michael (ramba-zamba).
So, I hope you enjoy the pictures and I hope I can show you more next week,
when I´ll make the color finish. Have a great start into the next week!
Mahalo, Kai
