Post #613835 by cy on Sun, Nov 13, 2011 5:10 PM

I really appreciate that Creative Chimp. It is nice to know that some great carvers on this forum accept my stuff as tiki. I was just admiring the piece you did for laojia and drooling over the beautiful mahogany that Florida guys have access to.

Here is 'Ohiki a piece of cedar I'm working on.

I really wanted to do a sand crab after lounging on the beach in Maui last year and watching the little bastards run from their hole and back.

This is a memorial tiki I did for Kit who passed earlier this year. He was a fan of the movie "Slingblade" so I put a mower blade in his hand. A hawaiian shirt was his usual attire and some of his remains are stored in the heart area in a curry can.

After I got into this piece I discovered a huge amount of rot behind the right eye and was about to scrap him when his widow told me that that was the area where his cancer began so we left Kit as he was.

"Doug" is a 7 foot piece of fir.

I will add a head to the little guy on his shoulders

[ Edited by: cy 2011-11-14 18:01 ]

[ Edited by: cy 2011-12-15 16:56 ]