Post #543266 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Jul 18, 2010 11:38 AM

On 2010-07-18 05:44, Tipsy McStagger wrote:
um.....yes, you have......it's called the trader vics suffering bastard tiki, based on the decanter.......

No! Really? I would have never guessed, even after Martian introduced it as such first:

On 2010-07-05 04:18, martian-tiki wrote:
Unlike the lucky tiki this fellow appears to be a frustrated suffering bastard.

I was of course speaking about the CARVING, and its weird organic, rounded-off style, which I cannot attribute to any specific carver. It looks like a non-Tiki sculptor tried to portray the Trader Vic's Suffering Bastard bottle. Leaving the palm tree base on the Tiki was something Andres Bumatay did sometimes, but the face is not stylized enough, too naturalistic for his style.

So I really have never seen this style of Tiki Carving before, neither in the style, nor in the fact that the Suffering Bastard was turned into a full-sized carving.