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T TikiTomD Grand Member (6 years) Flagler Beach, FL Joined: Sep 20, 2009 Posts: 700	T TikiTomD Posted posted on Sat, Nov 5, 2011 2:51 PM Aloha, McTiki, Holler Waller and tigertail777; appreciate the visits and comments! Hope you're enjoying this fine weekend! Keylo Plants a Tiki Today Keylo (aka Ramay Lewis) delivered a newly carved Tiki that he refers to as “Ben Chard the Yard Guardian.” You can learn a bit about his birthing pains at these TC threads: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=41402&forum=7&11 http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=41417&forum=7&31 This Tiki is positioned to guard the exterior entry to the Blowfish Bar. To plant him, Keylo centered a piece of pipe in a concrete-filled bucket which he then buried in the ground... A hole was drilled through the center of the Tiki to allow him to slip over the pipe... Keylo then used his cordless driver to insert a self-tapping set screw through the side of the Tiki into the pipe at the center. Two set screws were inserted, one on each side of the Tiki, offset vertically so they did not intersect at the same place on the pipe in the center... Keylo then applied some wood putty to the countersunk screw heads... At this point, we all had a bit of lunch and a Margarita or two at Hurricane Patty’s along the Intracoastal Waterway to give the wood putty time to dry. Some good time later, we returned and Keylo sanded the wood putty smooth, then applied black acrylic paint. At a future date, this will be top-coated with polyurethane... Mahalo to Keylo for another awesome Tiki creation! -Tom

Aloha, McTiki, Holler Waller and tigertail777; appreciate the visits and comments! Hope you're enjoying this fine weekend!

Keylo Plants a Tiki

Today Keylo (aka Ramay Lewis) delivered a newly carved Tiki that he refers to as “Ben Chard the Yard Guardian.” You can learn a bit about his birthing pains at these TC threads: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=41402&forum=7&11 http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=41417&forum=7&31

This Tiki is positioned to guard the exterior entry to the Blowfish Bar. To plant him, Keylo centered a piece of pipe in a concrete-filled bucket which he then buried in the ground...

A hole was drilled through the center of the Tiki to allow him to slip over the pipe...

Keylo then used his cordless driver to insert a self-tapping set screw through the side of the Tiki into the pipe at the center. Two set screws were inserted, one on each side of the Tiki, offset vertically so they did not intersect at the same place on the pipe in the center...

Keylo then applied some wood putty to the countersunk screw heads...

At this point, we all had a bit of lunch and a Margarita or two at Hurricane Patty’s along the Intracoastal Waterway to give the wood putty time to dry. Some good time later, we returned and Keylo sanded the wood putty smooth, then applied black acrylic paint. At a future date, this will be top-coated with polyurethane...

Mahalo to Keylo for another awesome Tiki creation!

-Tom

Post #612844 by TikiTomD on Sat, Nov 5, 2011 2:51 PM