Post #343965 by Howland on Wed, Nov 14, 2007 9:07 PM

Thanks for the props on the Marq-boat. GLAD it's finished!

While I'm still under the Marquesan persuasion...I have here for you kind ohana, a Marquesan post for me bar. Nothing extremely original, you've seen'em before... Mai Kai, TVics, etc. I'll actually have 2 more half-posts to do to complete the project. Seems like it takes me soooo long to do this stuff sometimes, I have a hard time thinking I've got 4 more faces to carve---uuuuggggggghhhhh!

I didn't have any dry logs so I bought some 2x6's --untreated, soft white pine--glued'em up and shaved off the corners till it was round.

sketched out features>

Here's roughly where it will stand when finished. I'll have a half-post against the wall, to the right of the clamshell sconce, probably replacing the vertical piece of bamboo there and another half against the wall that's off the pic to the far right. I'll run some fat bamboo horizontally across the top of the posts--from one wall to the other. Palm thatch on top of that.

Back soon.....