Post #390484 by Bay Park Buzzy on Sun, Jun 29, 2008 2:47 PM

We'll start things out with a sunset:

and then move on to the tiki stuff...

The stretched out mug guy is done:

These three guys are in various stages of the staining process.

They should be ready to be sealed tonight

I wanted to make one of the muggies that I carved to look as much like the mug's glaze job as possible. I tried a new techinique of staining it:

The eventual results:

Recently, Cammo made the first batch this year's line of his custom hatsand posted them on Marketplace. Babalu and I were talking, and I mentioned how much I liked them. Babalu agreed and said he actully tried to buy one from Cammo, but Cammo wouldn't sell him one. I had a similar experience in trying to get a hat too. Anyway, Babalu and I got each other all fired up on the idea of having our own custom tiki hats, be they from Cammo or China. So, I went to the swap meet today and bought a cheap life guard hat and and did a custom Cammo inspired tiki makeover on it.

From several feet away, with sqiunted eyes, you can barely notice the gaps in quality between Cammo's hats, and my own knockoff version.

I think this one will be the Buzzy Signature Model Tiki Carver's Hat.

Some of the details:

A resin Maori sliding chin clasp so that the hat will stay on when carving in high wind situations:

A Head-Tiki tapa hat band.

Unlike Cammo's hand stitched and fitted hat bands, mine are just torn strips hot glued until they don't move anymore.

And unlike the fancy sewn hidden seams Cammo has on his hats, I just glued another resin pendant overvthe seam to hide the ends:

I think I did a great job on it, and I have good taste, so it must good.

I'm working on one for Babalu too. It will be similar to mine, but it will have that personal Babalu "tiki" touch:

Wabbit ears!

I've been getting a lot done, but I cannot take all the credit for it. Since Ringo has been visiting this weekend, I ve been having him do the sealing of my tikis for me after I sand and stain them.
Here he is on the job:

He does a pretty good job, but...

I worked him so hard, he got a repetitive motion work related injury. Now I have to start a damn worker's comp case on him. I hate paperwork and now my premiums will go up! One step forward, two steps back...

On 2008-06-28 19:30, Bowana wrote:
Sorry it's taking me so long. I'll have something for you very soon.

I hope it's a stencil of those Moais so that I dont have to measure and scale another one of your photographed pieces off my computer screen. If it isn't, thanks, and I'll take a stencil too, since you are all caught up in he spirit of giving.

I wearing my new hat right now!
Buzzy Out!