Post #561386 by Paipo on Sun, Oct 24, 2010 6:10 PM

Well, he will have access to a fully equipped stone workshop at some point when he gets down to my part of the country, but I can also recommend anyone visiting Hokitika to check Steve's studio out - he's a super nice guy and probably the only carver in NZ doing Solomon Islands style pieces (cause that's where he's from).

Kai is indeed now in NZ and has already clocked up some travel miles and tiki touring, but has had very intermittent internet access. I did get an update via email a little while back which I can now share - this was from his first stop in Auckland:

NZ Kauri...pretty cool eh?

Maybe he can change the thread title to "New Tikis from New Zealand"!