Paipo's Stone Tikis - 1st Thread - Jun 06 - May 08 - Tiki Carving

P Paipo Member Aotearoa / NZ Joined: Jun 22, 2006 Posts: 1886	P Paipo Posted posted on Thu, Oct 4, 2007 9:14 PM Well, back again...sorry about the slow response, but I thought I'd wait until I had something new to post as well. Firstly, thanks to: Jen, G, FBalls, Kinny, Ben, hewey and surfin tiki...and extra special thanks to the new "Paipo Pebble Owner's Club" members Sneaky and Babalu! That lil' fella looks so cute - start em young! I'm always stoked to get some new work hanging around the necks of the TC Ohana. Not too much tiki lately with the summer (in name only) season now fully underway. Shops, commissions and exhibition work are still keeping me very busy though. I had to do a couple of pieces for an exhibition submission using found/recycled/non-traditional materials, and decided it was a good excuse to revisit my first ever pebble tiki design. Robotiki V 2.0 or "Hei-Teki" as it is now known: Companion piece to the above, "Broken Circuit". The components for both these pieces came from my late lamented TRS-80 pocket computer that my folks gave me back in about '82. I loved that thing - it stopped working years ago, so I figured it was only fitting that it live on in several new pieces of jewellery! This is one of my favourite contemporary designs - I have made these using copper, paua, jade, jasper...anything works for an inlay when you have a nice perfect round stone. That might be it for a while - I know some of you are interested in the other stuff I'm doing, but I'd prefer to stick mostly with my tikis (or at least Oceanic influenced work) in this thread. I will make a special tiki for Halloween before the end of the month, and may well get out another one or two.... Cheers! :tiki:

Well, back again...sorry about the slow response, but I thought I'd wait until I had something new to post as well.
Firstly, thanks to: Jen, G, FBalls, Kinny, Ben, hewey and surfin tiki...and extra special thanks to the new "Paipo Pebble Owner's Club" members Sneaky and Babalu! That lil' fella looks so cute - start em young! I'm always stoked to get some new work hanging around the necks of the TC Ohana.

Not too much tiki lately with the summer (in name only) season now fully underway. Shops, commissions and exhibition work are still keeping me very busy though. I had to do a couple of pieces for an exhibition submission using found/recycled/non-traditional materials, and decided it was a good excuse to revisit my first ever pebble tiki design. Robotiki V 2.0 or "Hei-Teki" as it is now known:

Companion piece to the above, "Broken Circuit". The components for both these pieces came from my late lamented TRS-80 pocket computer that my folks gave me back in about '82. I loved that thing - it stopped working years ago, so I figured it was only fitting that it live on in several new pieces of jewellery!

This is one of my favourite contemporary designs - I have made these using copper, paua, jade, jasper...anything works for an inlay when you have a nice perfect round stone.

That might be it for a while - I know some of you are interested in the other stuff I'm doing, but I'd prefer to stick mostly with my tikis (or at least Oceanic influenced work) in this thread. I will make a special tiki for Halloween before the end of the month, and may well get out another one or two....

Cheers!

:tiki:

Post #336562 by Paipo on Thu, Oct 4, 2007 9:14 PM