Post #305516 by Mr&Mrs BPHoptiki on Thu, May 10, 2007 5:38 PM

Mrs Hoptiki here,

Benzart - thank you for the counsel about the varnish/poly.Your mentoring is always welcomed with us. You’re absolutely right. We've gotta lose that plastic coated look. Some of the ones in these next pictures have that look also. From now on we will be taking much more care with our finishing. And sand sand sand, and sand some more.

MBL- We are a fortunate couple to be able to work so well together. I would have to say that our inspiration comes from all the carvers and creative people right here at Tiki Central.

As I have said we started carving last summer. We were lucky to have found a couple of palm logs to carve, but after they were finished we had no other wood. The area where we live has loads of Camphor Laurel trees so we began to collect fallen and cut pieces of it from around the neighborhood. Camphor Laurel is the tree that they make CamphoPhenique Wound Care ointment from. I smells a lot like Vick's Vapor Rub and the wood is kind of oily. After we started carving we discovered that it has lots of small hole’s inside(I'm guessing oil/sap pockets , but we were on fire to carve so we used what we had and devil be damned.

So here’s our tikis from last summer up till now in the order that they were carved.They range in size from about 1 1/2" to 6" tall.

First Moai attempt - Mask tiki - Dog Chewed Tiki :lol: (hee hee, A Tribute to Sneakytiki)

Smilin' Tiki- We are thinking of doing a large version of this guy.

Go'in for the Grandpa Simpson look on the tiki to the right.



The Argument - two against one.

Here Mr Hoptiki tries his hand at hands.

Mr Hoptiki's first"tongue tiki."

Group shot, ok Smile everybody!

Thanks for looking. We have a couple of carves we are working on right now and in the future I’ll be sure to post “in progress” pictures.

[ Edited by: Mr&Mrs BPHoptiki 2007-05-10 18:06 ]