Post #536952 by WJHScrimshaw on Wed, Jun 16, 2010 8:39 PM

Hello all Tiki lovers, I was invited here by the vendors of the Hukilau in Ft Lauderdale Florida.

I was just checking this site out for the first time this afternoon, sorry if I got off on a bad start.

Scrimshaw was introduced to me in 1986 while working on Mackinac Island Michigan.
That same summer I joined a wooden sailing ship called the Bounty II and sailed around North America. The Bounty is famous for visiting Tahiti resulting in mutiny and I visited Tahiti in 1997 and appreciated the genuine tikis first hand. So began my tiki appreciation.

I will be posting more tiki related work here soon, but here are some samples of Scrimshaw...

This is on Woolly Mammoth Ivory as is much of my work.

Vertical of the English ship "Soveriegn of the Seas."

Mermaid portrait.

Fossil Walrus tusk tip.

At left is my first dedicated work from 1987, the portrait on the right is recent.

I have many different sizes of ivory available.
From $14 pendants to whole tusks illustrated for $4,000.
Provide me a picture to work from, tiki or not, name your desired size and I will get it done for you. Payment via paypal

Thanks to everyone who bought my work at the Hukilau and ordered custom projects!
William

[ Edited by: WJHScrimshaw 2010-06-16 20:47 ]

[ Edited by: Bora Boris - Fixed Typo. - 2010-06-16 20:56 ]