Tiki Greenhorn-Introduction and some questions. - Tiki Carving

S SDshirtman Member San Diego, CA Joined: Sep 19, 2009 Posts: 71	S SDshirtman Posted posted on Wed, Oct 7, 2009 2:49 PM Hello everyone.I'd like to introduce myself. My name is John From San Diego and it appears I have caught the tiki bug. Tiki Central has been a wonderful resource. I've been lurking around these forums for about three weeks in preparation of starting my first ever tiki carve. It helped me find out what tools to use and other relevant info. I'm about 2 weeks into my carve and I have a few questions. But before I do let me say that this is addicting and I dont think this will be my last carve. Fist off is the time to carve and finish a project. Mine seems to be moving at a snails pace. I'm carving into Mexican Palm. Taking into account I decided to use strictly hand tools it still seems like I'm taking forever. So far I think I've put into close to 40 hours so far and I think I'm only about 15-20% into my carve. I'm kind of a perfectionist and want it to look cool so I've been taking my time and being careful. Understanding that it really depends on the level of detail and times can range widely can anyone give me examples of the average time for something like that to normally take? I'd rate mine at about a 6-7 as far as difficulty. My other question has to do with design. I dont know as much as I'd like about the traditional polynesian designs as I'd like and I kind of went with what I thought would look cool. I pulled ideas from many tikis I found on the net and kind of made a hodge podge mashup from those ideas and my own of what I thought would be aesthetically pleasing for me. Is there any general rules of what NOT to do to a tiki? I'm taking pictures of the whole process for posterity since its my first carve. I'm still debating on weather to post pictures at this stage or to wait until I'm finished. Either way you'll all see em sooner or later. Thanks for looking. [ Edited by: SDshirtman 2009-10-07 14:50 ]

Hello everyone.I'd like to introduce myself.
My name is John From San Diego and it appears I have caught the tiki bug. Tiki Central has been a wonderful resource. I've been lurking around these forums for about three weeks in preparation of starting my first ever tiki carve. It helped me find out what tools to use and other relevant info.

I'm about 2 weeks into my carve and I have a few questions. But before I do let me say that this is addicting and I dont think this will be my last carve. Fist off is the time to carve and finish a project. Mine seems to be moving at a snails pace. I'm carving into Mexican Palm. Taking into account I decided to use strictly hand tools it still seems like I'm taking forever. So far I think I've put into close to 40 hours so far and I think I'm only about 15-20% into my carve. I'm kind of a perfectionist and want it to look cool so I've been taking my time and being careful. Understanding that it really depends on the level of detail and times can range widely can anyone give me examples of the average time for something like that to normally take? I'd rate mine at about a 6-7 as far as difficulty.

My other question has to do with design. I dont know as much as I'd like about the traditional polynesian designs as I'd like and I kind of went with what I thought would look cool. I pulled ideas from many tikis I found on the net and kind of made a hodge podge mashup from those ideas and my own of what I thought would be aesthetically pleasing for me. Is there any general rules of what NOT to do to a tiki?

I'm taking pictures of the whole process for posterity since its my first carve. I'm still debating on weather to post pictures at this stage or to wait until I'm finished. Either way you'll all see em sooner or later. Thanks for looking.

[ Edited by: SDshirtman 2009-10-07 14:50 ]

Post #486920 by SDshirtman on Wed, Oct 7, 2009 2:49 PM