Post #357700 by tok-tok on Mon, Jan 28, 2008 4:26 PM

GOSH! Is it really that long ago? How time flies....

Thank you all (Savage Daddy, Benzart, hewey, Traderbob, seeksurf,benella, Lake Surfer)for your kind words, if there where questions, I try to answer now.
I was astonished myself how the color came out after the stain job and also how easy the wax was to polish. Ok, it took its time but the result was pretty nice I guess. The two- tone stain was inspired by some carvings I have seen in the aloha-station thread. I love the vintage look of it, too.
Unfortunately there hasn´t been much sun till now (it is still somehow winter here), so no pictures in the the sun. And yes, I am still proud how they turned outand that I have made it to deadline.

I promised some more pictures of those two in use and even if it´s been a while ago now, here they are of the two 'in use' as stage decoration:

Left

Middle (stage)

Right

They both have to stand around in a store in our town for decoration and for sale.

For the rest of january if been quit sleepy.
Wrong. HA.

I managed to carve three new ones for an artshow.

First one is a quit traditional marquesan design, again( I starting to love these, too).

The second is called Bigtoe (because of the Surfbeat, make a guess).

(the toes could have been bigger...)

The third I would describe as a kind of comic Kane .

These three are ready for staining and waxing and then sending them away.

I additionaly started a crest for a friend of mine, which has not much to with tiki but with faith, hope and charity.

It´s in progress. Hopefully ready by the end of the month.

Here is another eyecandy called 'fruit salad'. But no longer available, already been eaten.

Carved out of apple.

And as I do not know, where to post the pictures (I am not sure, if the "tiki findings"-threat is the right place for these), here are some pieces of my still small tikiart-collection. Please let me know, if there is a better place to post them, and i will do so.

Squid, Gecko, Bamboo Ben and Crazy Al. FRAMED!

The magik of the tiki makers.

Harmony of the elements.
All these are made by Thor,Hawaii.

Two different pendants made by these crazy Forbidden Paradise-guys (Thanks to Kai and Michael, where are my mugs?)

Basement Kahuna resin replica of his original bone carving(this may not be alone for too long, BK what´s up?)

I will post some more pictures of my progresses on the three little fellows tomorrow.

Mahalos, tok-tok

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[ Edited by: tok-tok 2008-01-29 04:48 ]