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Post #514891 by JONPAUL on Wed, Mar 3, 2010 7:19 PM

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&forum&hiliteThank you so much, Sabu!
Another excellent thread!

Here are just a few quick reference links to previous fernwood threads and some other visual examples.
Many of the image links are broken--maybe a re-interest in the old threads will inspire them to be fixed?

TNTiki’s post about the Green Garden on Kauai

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=6466&forum=2

ZuluMagoo posted some excellent interior postcards of the South Seas, Boston, here...

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=11669&forum=1

Tiki Matt brought up a discussion of fernwood Tikis here, unfortunately, all the image links are broken...

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=13933&forum=1

Again, another discussion begun by DawnTiki here (with broken links)...

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=1486&forum=5

Another discussion by tikiriffic...

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=20268=5=bosko%20fern

Another discussion by Choptop...

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=24431&forum=1

...featuring the gorgeous fernwood carved by cheekytiki for the Mahiki

Here’s a Vanuatu fernwood figure that sold at auction in 2005 for $24,000

Tiki Kiliki has one of the most beautiful fernwood Tikis I’ve ever seen from the Kon-Tiki Ports in Chicago...

(photo: tiki kiliki)

Matt Reese’s spectacular home bar, the Lava Flow Inn, also has a beautiful fernwood specimen...

(photo from Matt’s Lava Flow Inn Home-Bar Thread)
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=25372&forum=2

Here’s a vintage vacation photo from the Ulu Mau Village...

(photo: Dick & Graciela)

A couple of fernwoods in the collection of gtykal...

A specimen stated to be from Trader Vic’s in Honolulu...

And a 6 foot-plus specimen stated to be from the Dole Hawaiian Pavillion at the '62 world’s fair...

Fugu's got a great personal story behind another fernwood specimen in tikiyaki's "Your First/Favorite Tikis" thread...
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=26807&forum=1&13


[ Edited by: JONPAUL 2010-03-03 19:41 ]