Post #531543 by AlohaStation on Fri, May 21, 2010 10:30 AM

Wow - over a month since an update. I promise that I haven't been goofing off too much. Here's what's been going on...

Last year Tiki_Kiliki honored me with the job of creating this year's Hukilau Pendant. The theme was to honor the fallen Barney West tiki that once resided in the Mai Kai's garden (I lovingly named him "Barney"). This was no small job and finding good images of the tiki in its original condition was difficult. I only remember what it looked like for the past 10 years so the design came from those images and the blender that is my head. After some research I dove in and came up with the following design. I teamed up with pdrake to produce the following resin duplicates. The original was carved in Walnut, but I wanted to experiment with some color variations...

The final pendants are available here http://www.thehukilau.com and will be available at the event.

Here's some sneak peaks at the other thing I'm doing for the Hukilau. It will be the trophy for the winner of the 2010 Hukilau Room Crawl. Its a Muddler carved in Maple. This will have alot of small detail that I don't want to show yet.

I've got lots of stuff that I will have available at Hukilau. There's not a lot of big stuff, but I will have a few medium sized things along with plenty of Pocket Tikis/pendants. Here is a small preview of some of the stuff. First is some of the carved pieces followed by resin work.




YES - glow in the dark!!

I want give a special shout out to Perry who has been doing the casting for me!! He will be sharing my table at The Hukilau. Make sure to come by and give us a shout.

PS. I will also have several of my buddy's (wplugger) tikis for sale as well!