Post #303272 by Mr&Mrs BPHoptiki on Tue, May 1, 2007 12:35 PM

Mrs Hoptiki here:

Thanks MBL, yes we do have more. Due to Mr Hoptiki and my work schedule, we are a lot slower than some with our carving and posting. We actually have carved eleven tiki’s so far. I’ll be posting them as time allows.

Hey hi McTiki. We sure have enjoyed watching your carving work. We do have the “carving bug.” thanks to all you T C carvers for spreading it to us, hee hee. Thanks for the T C welcome.

Here is BPTiki #2. I call him “learning tiki.” Keep in mind that we have no prior experience with carving let alone carving Palm wood. So we have a lot of learning to do. The wood was so splintery, it was tough to get any detail. Also, learned that working palm on a long vertical (like we did with the sides of the mouth and nose) doesn‘t work very well. We angst over him awhile then decided to sand and finish him up with stain and spar…and on to our next project, a “pocket tiki” using different wood. Will those post photo’s soon. Thanks for taking a look our work as we progress.

[ Edited by: Mr&Mrs BPHoptiki 2007-05-01 12:39 ]