I have a lot of catching up to do, so here I go...
As previously posted, I took a road trip with my pop out to the desert to drop off the big tiki. Here he is in his new spot:
The table and chairs will be right in front of him, and as Amy requested, another large Maori twin/brother/cousin is going to go at the base on the other side of the A frame
Here's the log I'm using for it
I stripped a little off it just to see what I'd be in for later...
Then the sun set and I didn't do any more work because I was tired from driving all day:
Which brings me to saturday. I awoke on fire with a blaze of motivation and had several tasks I wanted to accomplish on this day.
Here's a brief overview of my tasks:
And now a more detailed look at those tasks:
I sanded this guy real good all over and had him ready for staining
I also had this guy all sanded up and ready to go
I also put a coat of exterior latex paint on the table that looks like drum to make it look a little more like a real drum
A little rope will go a long way to making this illusion complete:
My hope is that some one will tap on it to see if it's a real drum. Looks pretty dang close...
I got the two pieces all stained up before the sunset
There wasn't enough light to photo them fully stained until Sunday
Saturday Sunset:
Sunday, the cahirs and table looked like this:
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I just needed to wait another day to put on spar because I wanted to put it on in the morning, ratherv than in the evening. It's been real damp at night last few days and I want to give the spar a drying headstart.
So, there they would sit until the next day.
In the meantime, Pat came over to work on his tiki again
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He's getting close to wrapping that one up.
To kill some time, I took a ficus log I just got like this:
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And turned it into a bunch of pieces like this:
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There was a smaller piece in that gap on the left that I started messing around with yesterday
It had been a few hours since a tiki artist had posted a version of a moai, so I stepped up to fill that gap.
First I just wanted to feel out the wood and see if it would be worth the time and effort, so I did a quick carve on the top of one piece of it.
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I didn't know what to do with the rest of the piece of wood, so I just made another knife out of it:
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The sun set befor I could finish it,
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I watched some crappy tv that night and and finished it up:
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I got the blade pretty sharp
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The handle is really comfortable
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I put some oil on it a while ago and it is now curing. Looks good so far...
And finally, to end my update, I bring us to today:
Today, I put spar on these guys,
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And now I need something to do...
I'm going to answer all your guys posts in a little bit...In the meantime, reread this post and have your next round of inquiries ready.
I'll be back shortly
Buzzy Out!
