Post #355474 by Trader Tark on Thu, Jan 17, 2008 3:38 AM

Happy New Year!

I hope every one had good holidays. I did !

One notable present from Tamzine was the Tiki Modern book. Apparently ordered 6 months ago, it never arrived in time for my birthday. Hey, never mind. what a lovely big book , it even feels nice.

Thank you every one for the words of encoragement. It means alot coming from people who's work i have also admired.

Started on a new one last weekend. The piece of wood is the 5' cut off end of the trunk that the first large Tiki came from. Its Douglas fir , a very inexpencive wood , but with a nice grain i think. This part of the trunk was however damaged. Probably by the woods men picking it up with a tight chain and squeezing it too tight, it crushed alot of the outer layers.

As you can see ... car rolled out the garage :D

I used an "Oak" wood stain/Dye on this one. I shall probabaly varnish it ..

Thanks for looking. :)

[ Edited by: Trader Tark 2008-01-17 03:52 ]