Post #391897 by Billy the Crud on Sun, Jul 6, 2008 1:18 AM

On 2008-07-04 13:28, Tikiwahine wrote:
Hey Crud, thanks for posting your handiwork.
Your tikis have wonderful style, from traditional to offbeat 'modern'. Your skills have really come through, it looks like you've found a calling!

Great little 50s bungalow too, it'll make a fab homestead.

I'm sorry I don't live closer, or I'd commission a tiki from you!
I hope you post your next carvings more frequently than once a year, I'll be looking for them!

Hey, TW, thanks for looking and the love is much appreciated. Being creative is a great way to blow off steam from a high-stress job and it’s a total plus when people dig what you do.
The house? Fixer-upper, but when it’s done, it will be a little slice of paradise for me and the family. Living in a condo now, so a freakin’ TENT on two acres would suffice. Condos are HELL.
Oh, and Masks ship nicely!

On 2008-07-04 14:37, pablus wrote:

Mahalo for this.

As much as I love the carvers, and oh... how I do love them, there have been a few here who have posted a photo of every splinter that ever flew off a chipped log. Your stuff is tight and I like a whole heapin' bunch of it. I'm more of a psycho-primitive-quasi-traditionalist and several of your pieces caught me in their orbit.

A word of caution however, nude carving can be very dangerous. Make sure to take copious amounts of peyote.

Pablus, you hit nail on the head in all areas. I try and stay traditional, but pop-culture and Atomic Ranch keep pulling at my heartstrings.
Two things I try and avoid in the nude are cooking bacon, and carving...........and all sharp objects are FAR, far away when I’m under the influence of hallucinogenics.

Heath, Banned from the Pubs is EXACTLY what I was thinking of......OI!!

On 2008-07-04 18:19, hewey wrote:
Nice work mate :D I was flicking through street rodder mag and saw a pic of a guy chipping away on a tiki - whoa! Naturally I bought it straight away - you're world famous now mate.

Nice carves, very nice work :D Cant wait to see more of your work

Hewey, did you check out Chip Fooses’ P38 Roadster in that issue?(cover car) Holy SHIT that was badass......and I usually hate that guys work.

More carves on the way and thank you very much. I didn’t know that Streetrodder was worldwide!

On 2008-07-05 21:29, Tiki Trav wrote:
Well i don't think anyone should be banned from the chop... maybe given a spot away from people who don't wish to be near you would be more appropriate.. maybe set up the chop area in a big circle with everyone's backs to the centre.. maybe just say "Billy you are a dick, stay the f%$k away from me" and get to carvin.. just some thoughts..

The thing is........ah, who gives a frogs fat ass. We’ll be having too much fun to even bother. Room crawl, swimming, drinking, getting our monies worth out of our hotel room, carving on the porch.......I’ll have even more fun than last year because I won’t be tied down. Sounds like there’s a supervisor this year, anyways. Yuck!

On 2008-07-05 23:03, pia tiki wrote:
Hey, great work.

Quick queston, what is "the chop"?

Mahalo!

-Cheers! :drink:

Thank-you, Pia-tiki! A chop is a term coined by fellow carver, friend, and childrens Author, Camm MacMillan. It’s a carving party where like-minded folks get together like a sewing circle, eat, carve tikis, and exchange ideas and mediums. Basically it’s an artist co-op where everyone is friendly, helpful, and eager for newcomers with artistic prowess to come and give carving tikis a shot.

I’m not really sure what THE Chop is anymore.

View my work @

http://www.myspace.com/sandiegotikicarvers

[ Edited by: Billy the Crud 2008-07-06 04:20 ]