Post #419733 by jab tiki on Wed, Nov 19, 2008 2:25 AM

Hi, My name 's John, ("Hi John")
and I'm a Tiki-holic.
Finally decided to post some pix of my beginning work in tiki.
So, with my chisels that I bought from the swap meet and some starter ones' from Hommie"D," I got a feel for the tools on this mushy palm stump, that I got from my Abuelo.

I call him "Hack"

I put him out front for Halloween.

Went to my 1st "chop" w/ Buzzard and met some of the great people here on TC. Masubi Mom offered me a casting of cement w/ no sand, that was going to dry in a few days. I took it home and took some beat up chisels to it.


I picked this piece of wood from some tree cutters cutting down trees from an apartment complex in my neighborhood. I don't know what kind of wood it was, but it was hard. Pine??



added some stain


"Spot-Pine"

Finally, a good hunk of Mex. fan palm! Thanks Bob-O.



Mahalo for all the great tips and encouragement along the way. - John A. Butterfield.

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