Post #343060 by Bay Park Buzzy on Fri, Nov 9, 2007 6:13 PM

Finally saw the sun for a couple moments today:

I finished and refinished a couple tikis over the last couple of days
After I sanded and put on some minwax old american on this, I thought that this stain was a little too pale and bland.

I used a few coats of amber shellac to get it to a more acceptable hue

When I originally finished this one, the spar varnish ran in a couple spots and turned orange whenh it finally dried a couple weeks later. So, I refinished the problem areas:

I had a couple hours to kill and small half log so I freehanded this face looking design on to it:

I always use these little ones as a practice or test run for a design or feature I'm going to use in the future. This way, I will have already figured out how to execute my plan and not ruin a piece I spend more significant time and effort on.

TDuddy: Thanks buddy and I still owe you a PM. Got snow yet?

HOKU: Hey Freddie! I seem to be stuck in a tikis with tongues phase right now, don't I?

Cammo: Anthropologists falsely believe that the tongue out was used as a greeting or warning upon meeting friends or enemies. My research has found that this was a merely a way to proposition available women for intercourse. It's all about sex.

Closettiki: Your log requests have been forwarded to Santa...He has some yule logs fer sure!

Seeksurf: We've had your weather here for what seems like an eternity. It makes me want to move here, where I hear it's sunny all of the time.

Benzart: So if you use rope to hang the door, then does that mean it a tiki house door pendant? If so, put me on that Benzart list, please.

Hewey: Did you say to the girlfriend: "Know him? Of course! Remember when I said we had a place to stay in California? That's where we are staying in San Diego!!!" I sure she was overcome with joy and cannot wait to meet some of your best American freinds!

Congatiki: Who would you like to see on a future House of Buzz episode? I can send your request to the producers...

Cammo: [Cammo]red[/Cammo] nope!

Closettiki: The new episode will come very soon...

Hiltiki: *

Tiki-kate: Eliminating one man o war just makes all the others more valuable. :wink:

Tornhalo: The new House of Buzz motto: "The House of Buzz is full of nothing but Win!" It's cool in a tikizippo kind of way...

Robin: You will find the art of log facing both challenging and rewardng!

Spermy: I find that tool useful for a variety of tiki tasks. stay tuned for the House of Buzz milling episode.

GMAN: Wait til I sport the fork!

Clysdalle: thank you so much for volunteering to be the new House of Buzz "crew". Everybody bow down to Clysdalle, please! I blew a circuit on my electric knife so I had to go manual for the video. And we really did try to use a microphone this time...

Tikifreak1: Unfortunately, the box set will not be out ion time for Xmas. I blame taschen!

Bowana: Sure! Thanks Dav!

Buzzy Out!