Lurking Tikiphite finally posts his work. . .(10-2-10 new pics, tiki # 10, 11 now posted) - Tiki Carving

T tiki_tim Member Colorado, USA Joined: Dec 06, 2007 Posts: 39	T tiki_tim Posted posted on Wed, Apr 30, 2008 7:42 PM First thanks to everyone out there who posts up their work, and their feedback. It's you guys/gals who make up this awesome sub-culture known as tikicentral. :) It's hard to post up my primitive attempts in the presence of such good artists, but everyone starts somewhere right? hehehe. I have been lurking around here for a couple years, getting ideas, reading up, making notes, etc. Have been working on a tikibar in my basement for a while now (they are never done), and creating things to decorate it. I will post up pics of the bar a little later. Anyhow, I will post up my first tiki which I carved about a year ago. (I have done 2 more since, will post them up later too). This one came from an inspiration I got from a friend who sent me the following pic from a putt-putt course on the El Camino Real in Sunnyvale, CA: (some of you may recognize it). When he sent me that pic I thought, "This is what I have been waiting for, something to inspire me to carve!" Well I took a shot at it. Of course it barely resembles the original, but oh well. The wood is part of a tree trunk from an Aspen tree I cut down in my backyard. I dried it for 6 months or more, pretty soft and easy to work with. It's about 12" tall, not counting the hairdoo. The hair is actually made from taking leaves from cat-tails and tearing them into thin strips. Some of the wet strips were ran across a scissor blade to give him some curl. Each strand was then pushed into a hole I pre-burrowed into his skull and filled with a small bit of glue. Just like the hair club for men! The hair doesn't really look like the thatch on the original, but hey, my guy is balding. :) I carved it mostly with a dremel, some of the mouth wood I removed with a chisel. Lightly sanded/stained, and some acrylic paint. All in all, I am fairly happy with my first foray into this diversion. More to come later. "In the dark, mysterious, pagan womb of the tiki bar, Organizational Man could escape the spectre of the A-bomb and the 30-year mortgage." (Grog Log - J Berry, A Kaye - 1998) TT [ Edited by: tiki_tim 2008-11-30 17:37 ] [ Edited by: tiki_tim 2009-04-22 19:13 ] [ Edited by: tiki_tim 2010-03-08 18:24 ] [ Edited by: tiki_tim 2010-10-02 17:09 ]

First thanks to everyone out there who posts up their work, and their feedback. It's you guys/gals who make up this awesome sub-culture known as tikicentral. :) It's hard to post up my primitive attempts in the presence of such good artists, but everyone starts somewhere right? hehehe.

I have been lurking around here for a couple years, getting ideas, reading up, making notes, etc. Have been working on a tikibar in my basement for a while now (they are never done), and creating things to decorate it. I will post up pics of the bar a little later.

Anyhow, I will post up my first tiki which I carved about a year ago. (I have done 2 more since, will post them up later too). This one came from an inspiration I got from a friend who sent me the following pic from a putt-putt course on the El Camino Real in Sunnyvale, CA: (some of you may recognize it).

When he sent me that pic I thought, "This is what I have been waiting for, something to inspire me to carve!" Well I took a shot at it. Of course it barely resembles the original, but oh well.

The wood is part of a tree trunk from an Aspen tree I cut down in my backyard. I dried it for 6 months or more, pretty soft and easy to work with. It's about 12" tall, not counting the hairdoo.

The hair is actually made from taking leaves from cat-tails and tearing them into thin strips. Some of the wet strips were ran across a scissor blade to give him some curl. Each strand was then pushed into a hole I pre-burrowed into his skull and filled with a small bit of glue. Just like the hair club for men! The hair doesn't really look like the thatch on the original, but hey, my guy is balding. :)

I carved it mostly with a dremel, some of the mouth wood I removed with a chisel. Lightly sanded/stained, and some acrylic paint.

All in all, I am fairly happy with my first foray into this diversion. More to come later.

"In the dark, mysterious, pagan womb of the tiki bar, Organizational Man could escape the spectre of the A-bomb and the 30-year mortgage." (Grog Log - J Berry, A Kaye - 1998)

[ Edited by: tiki_tim 2008-11-30 17:37 ]

[ Edited by: tiki_tim 2009-04-22 19:13 ]

[ Edited by: tiki_tim 2010-03-08 18:24 ]

[ Edited by: tiki_tim 2010-10-02 17:09 ]

Post #377341 by tiki_tim on Wed, Apr 30, 2008 7:42 PM