Post #538548 by TabooDan on Wed, Jun 23, 2010 5:39 PM

Okay, here's a flash back of that wall again:

This is the West wall with the patio door. The window off to the right is the one covered up by the wall cabinet (previous post).

After adding the Matting and T&G on the wall:

Note the green wood pole in the picture above? It is a pressure treated fir fence post. More to come on that!

Here's the wall with a wood strip mounted at the top of the T&G:

I am doing one strip mounted on the wall like above with another 'top' added it to this piece and then a carved molding above that. This will match the other side of the room and kind of bulk it up a bit.
These moldings will all line up with the bar height for a continuous look. Well, that's the theory anyway. Although, if I was doing this type of strip again, I would go lower next time to make the walls seem taller. Good thing these walls were standard height to start off with.

On the T&G on the walls, I wanted a custom carved molding to go around. This carving will also be added on the other T&G wall as well. Eventually, I would like to have carved moldings above all the bamboo work but for now just on the T&G sections. I like the different look. I may give the carvings a try myself one day but for now I just don't have the time. I got Reido to carve these moldings and he did an awesome job!!

Here it is with the molding:

On the corner of this wall, between the rock and T&G, I wanted a custom carving. Remember that Green pole from a couple of photos ago??? Well, here it is now:

Now all you carvers out there will understand this but first up, you don't really want to carve Fir! Secondly, you sure as hell don't carve anything that's been pressure treated!!!
My friend Reido had a hell of a time carving this post up and I felt pretty bad. I think he went through a few breathing masks and took a while to do. But boy oh boy did it come out well!

I knew it shouldn't be done but it was the perfect size that I wanted to use and really, besides spending a hell of alot of time carving down a square cedar post, I figured if anybody could do it Reido could! Plus I already cut a v-notch out of the back of this baby to mount it to the wall nice and tight.
Does it really matter that his new born child came out with an extra limb?? Not really! Now little Cash is a freak and that limb will make him some extra $$$!! :)

Here's a closer look. This is the lower half with the first Tiki:

Here's the upper half of the Tiki Pole with the other Tiki:

In the next picture, which shows the middle area between the two Tikis, you can see "Z H" carved vertically which of course stands for "Zombie Hideaway"!!!

I gave Reido an idea of what I wanted in terms of style of carving and I told him I wanted the initials in the carving and this is what he came up with. He did an awesome job and it really added that personal touch specifcally for the Zombie Hideaway!!

Still gotta mount this bad boy and get it all varnished up.

Mahalo, TabooDan