Post #479804 by ChuckM on Thu, Aug 27, 2009 2:43 PM

Wow, it's so great to have other people wondering and discussing the same things that have kept me up nights; I was in the Honolulu airport as a kid in the late 60's and I saw a very small Coco Joes Tiki made from or with lava and in my mind I too pictured native Hawaiians dipping small molds on long skewers into the actual lava flows from an active volcano! The cooled lava rock seemed far too brittle to carve so smoothly, I figured it was made the way a candle was with certain modifications! Anyway, I tried to persuade my mother to purchase the Tiki for me, it cost about $3.99 or $5.99 I think, but she refused explaining that if I still wanted them when I grew up I could go ahead and buy all of the Tikis I want! Hmm, I wish! About a week ago I tried to heat and reshape a leaning Kanaloa model76-043 in the oven but I accidently overheated it, melted the eyes, cracked the surface and stunk up my house! My idea now is to display all of the leaning CCJs from a high shelf lite from below so that they seem to gaze down from on high, sort of lika a gargoyle or perhaps a perching vulture! OK, Chuck

[ Edited by: ChuckM 2009-08-28 04:21 ]