Mr&Mrs Hoptiki Our Latest Projects - Tiki Carving

T TheBigT Tiki Socialite Fabulous Houston Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 1798	T TheBigT Posted posted on Mon, Sep 10, 2007 8:01 AM Mrs. Hoptiki and I have been pretty busy the past few months, but we've been doing a little carving here and there. This is a tiki Mrs. Hoptiki did. It’s one of our favorites so far. She took Benzart’s advice and sanded the heck out of it, stained it and then used a low gloss tung oil finish,buffing in between each coat with fine steel wool. Four coats in all. We like the way it turned out. Cool! Love the design work on that one! Nice finish too. Is that just the blue background that gives the tiki a sort of greenish tone? That gives me an idea to try out different colors of stain. Bet that would look really cool.

Mrs. Hoptiki and I have been pretty busy the past few months, but we've been doing a little carving here and there. This is a tiki Mrs. Hoptiki did. It’s one of our favorites so far. She took Benzart’s advice and sanded the heck out of it, stained it and then used a low gloss tung oil finish,buffing in between each coat with fine steel wool. Four coats in all. We like the way it turned out.

Cool! Love the design work on that one! Nice finish too. Is that just the blue background that gives the tiki a sort of greenish tone? That gives me an idea to try out different colors of stain. Bet that would look really cool.

Post #331543 by TheBigT on Mon, Sep 10, 2007 8:01 AM