Post #43917 by Basement Kahuna on Tue, Jul 22, 2003 12:01 AM

The half-round, 9" Marquesan pole has a lot of "blue stain", which is the sawmill nickname for a surface mold that grows on summer-cut wood in humid weather up here...harmless to the wood as it just grows on the surface but it's by-product is this ugly blue-gray staining that gets into the grain..It stains away easy as pie with Minwax or torch-aging..so I'm gonna show this one when it's done in a couple of days. Any photos right now would be ugly. After that I start on the first couple of Samoan Fire Knives for the Mai Kai shop. The gope board shown earlier is available right now at the Mai Kai...the first of what I hope will be a long, tiki-historic relationship!