Post #365282 by Lake Surfer on Thu, Mar 6, 2008 10:01 PM

Thanks Jason. :)

I've been playing around with some different new things in-between cranking out the bread and butter of my stuff for this summer.
Some have been successes and some have gone to the burn pile.

Things are hopping here as I continue to build up inventory and get a bunch of new work and installs done for the local tiki bar, Foundation. I'm heading over Friday to put some new stuff up that I did Thursday and then work starts soon on two 6 foot half poles that will flank the entrance outside the bar.

I've got to start wrapping and boxing finished work... I can't move around my tiki bar anymore!

Here's another new project I'm working on... two of these will be for sale at Hukilau in June!
The first time I started on my Marquesan canoe things didn't go so well. The process I used to make the first one didn't go well in the end. Parts are in the trash, other parts in the bonfire pile. I used that as a learning experience and started over with new methods in mind and a whole lot more detail than before.

Here's some of that work...

One canoe will be inspired by the classic OA canoe. Marqs with spears. I'm also doing one that has Tangs and rather than spears these guys will be rowing.

These will be made to hang on a wall, not too heavy and not too big at 36" across for the canoes. Each Marq and Tang are about 5 inches or so tall.

These pieces will be slow going. I want to spend a lot of time doing detail work and push them pretty far. Whoever purchases these in Florida will have a couple a really nice pieces, some of the best I've done. :)

[ Edited by: Lake Surfer 2008-03-06 23:10 ]