Calling all Florida tiki artists new and accomplished - Tiki Carving

A AlohaStation Tiki Socialite So FL Joined: Sep 27, 2004 Posts: 2434	A AlohaStation Posted posted on Wed, Jul 18, 2007 8:00 AM Well, I was going to wait till I got to start on it before posting anything - but now that the cat is out of the bag... The owner still has another city meeting before I can start, so I have some time to draw up some ideas. Its a nice stump, but I have some reservations. First and most important, is that it is Black Olive - notoriously hard!! The tree has been dead since the 2004 storms and has been standing dead timber ever since. I hope to get up there and do some test cuts to see if the wood is workable. Here is tiki mdommert likes. Should be fun seeing this guy (5" tall) taken to 6'. Keep your fingers crossed. And one of the stump... [ Edited by: AlohaStation 2007-07-18 08:12 ]

Well, I was going to wait till I got to start on it before posting anything - but now that the cat is out of the bag... The owner still has another city meeting before I can start, so I have some time to draw up some ideas. Its a nice stump, but I have some reservations. First and most important, is that it is Black Olive - notoriously hard!! The tree has been dead since the 2004 storms and has been standing dead timber ever since. I hope to get up there and do some test cuts to see if the wood is workable. Here is tiki mdommert likes. Should be fun seeing this guy (5" tall) taken to 6'. Keep your fingers crossed.

And one of the stump...

[ Edited by: AlohaStation 2007-07-18 08:12 ]

Post #319515 by AlohaStation on Wed, Jul 18, 2007 8:00 AM