Tiki Finds - Collecting Tiki

BPB Bay Park Buzzy Tiki Socialite West Bay Park, San Diego, CA Joined: Apr 07, 2006 Posts: 3066	BPB Bay Park Buzzy Posted posted on Sun, Feb 28, 2010 4:20 PM Wow! page 400 of Tiki Finds! Congrats all you finders! After all these finds, it's a wonder there's still any stuff out there. Alas though, it's there, and every once in a while you can have one of those days like i had today, and a chance at a day like this one keeps me out there day after day, week after week, looking over a bunch of crap, hoping to stumble on to a pile like this: I almost had a heart attack when I saw it all there. Even though I strongly desired every piece there, I passed on it when I first saw it because the prices were a little out of my comfort zone. I figurd I could get the guy down a lot on his original price because all the info he told me about the pieces was totally wrong. I figured if he didn;t know what it was, he wouldn't know what it's worth either. I went back right before the swap meet ended today, did some hard negotiating, and got it down to a reasonable price. Some closeups of it all: Paddles are about 42" tall and the stringed instrument is about 36": Really nice adze: Knifey thingeys: Other knifey thingeys: Tiki: Guam tiki from a different seller than all the other stuff: The Guam tiki was $2, and the only thing I could really afford out of all this. I will soon starve to death, but I will sure have a nice collection of expensive stuff to stare at while I go. Buzzy Out of $$$!

Wow! page 400 of Tiki Finds! Congrats all you finders!

After all these finds, it's a wonder there's still any stuff out there.

Alas though, it's there, and every once in a while you can have one of those days like i had today, and a chance at a day like this one keeps me out there day after day, week after week, looking over a bunch of crap, hoping to stumble on to a pile like this:

I almost had a heart attack when I saw it all there. Even though I strongly desired every piece there, I passed on it when I first saw it because the prices were a little out of my comfort zone. I figurd I could get the guy down a lot on his original price because all the info he told me about the pieces was totally wrong. I figured if he didn;t know what it was, he wouldn't know what it's worth either. I went back right before the swap meet ended today, did some hard negotiating, and got it down to a reasonable price.