Post #379141 by Lake Surfer on Thu, May 8, 2008 10:08 PM

McTiki, thanks! These guys are cedar, and I have a yellow pine and a bunch of hard ass ash logs kicking around next to the garage, but I haven't come across white pine anymore. I do like the cedar now, and I may go back to basswood one of these days. A bit more forgiving on the tools and you don't have to sharpen as often.

Tipsy, thanks much! I'm done with polyurethane, sometimes it comes out matte, but more times it comes out gloss. Takes forever to dry in this climate and is generally expensive. A lot of times that's what people wanted in a "finished" tiki so I got used to doing it. But now, yea, I'm moving on and doing my own thing.

Seek, thanks man! Not the kind of detail you stuff into your masterpieces but they've got some. The stain base is Jacobean, but I end up mixing 3 or 4 other colors of stain into the whole thing along with some other little tricks to give the tiki endless layers of color.

harro, thanks for your compliment! Kind of in the home stretch right now with a few weeks to go before June. I hope to have things wrapped up a week before the trip to kick back a little. I think I may have gone a bit overboard now that I look at the stacks of stuff in the studio. :D