Post #648383 by Jürka on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 2:20 PM

Hello!

I'm a rockabilly guy from Estland. One day last year I was wondering who is that wooden angry guy who is mixed into hotrodders culture. I found who is Tiki but still wondered how is he related with rockabilly. I searched and searched and got my answer that "because he is just THAT cool!" and rockabillies and hotrodders just like all kind of cool things... and ofcourse it all came from '50 USA... Well, I don't have hot rod, but I have always been interested of oldschool things... where everything is come from, like delta blues and country music and Sailor Jerry tattoo-style and ofcourse there wasn't much to go to get stuck into Tiki culture.

The next step was to try those stirred and shaked rum-coctails, so I was thinking about changing my brandy-colas to rum-juice coctails... But... What I needed first... Everything around that coctail... I got some exotica-music (have tried to play it also, worked hard with those tunes, I love it!), but I still don't have Tiki mug nor Tiki lounge (nor bar)... So... My next mission... Tiki mug! I had searched in Ooga-Mooga for a long time, there are all kinds of them, better ones, worse ones... but not the one which I wanted. So... There's no other way to make one by myself... For that time I had already made my own design of Tiki in my mind which I had drew to everywhere... with pencil on paper... or with my finger into the dust... So I suffered for few months in this spring... by dreaming and learning (from this forum and everywhere) and wondering and dreaming again...

After those months of unslept nights I took my pencil and paper and polished my Tiki-guy into perfection... I contacted my old buddy from college who has started carving-work as a hobby... He gave me some good pieces of wood... which I glued together... My ol' dad had a ol' lathe... I made the wood into round-shape, got some tools from my ol' dad and carved my own Tiki from those pieces of wood. It got... pretty perfect I must say... At least lot better than I thought. Anyway... The next step is mold... And that's where problems started... Today I opened my first mold of constructional plaster... It's not as tough as it should be, result was not-so-good... So... Here I am, not only reading from now on, but also writing... of my big worries... Now I'm gonna find the right topic and start to ask for all kinds of answers for my all kinds of questions...