Post #427288 by kimoaz on Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:41 PM

Here are a couple of answers to old questions:

1. Ugly Tiki was made out of Olivine sand crystals. after molding the tiki was soaked in a acetone bath which ate away some of the resin binder.
   Then it was brushed to give it the authentic hand carved "look". Remember this was the early 60's. That was as good as it got.

2. The mixture was usually 20% binder and 80% raw material. That was enough to let the mixture flow into the molds. The finer the raw material the
   better detail we could get.

3. There is a new Coco joe's on Oahu. I even picked up one of our old Tiki models in Waikiki this past year. It has a Coco Joe' label and yet is molded
   with the HIP logo on the base. The new ones are all plastics with 0% raw material.

It's fun to see the "old stuff" still floating around. Thanks for keeping up the interest.

Kimo