BARNEY WEST in DISTRESS! or How to bring an old salt back to life! - Collecting Tiki

T tiki1963 Member los angeles Joined: Sep 12, 2003 Posts: 221	T tiki1963 Posted posted on Thu, Sep 13, 2012 5:40 PM the facelift has begun! Bob's been nice enough to snap a few pics when I'm not down there during the process. here's the Michelangelo of Tiki working on a piece by the Picasso of Tiki... does that make this the Sistine Tiki? anyhow, he's using a combination of light heat torching and burr bit in a grinder to pull off the bad paint. hey, anytime something old has to be restored, it's traumatic and changes a bit from the original. i'm just hoping in terms of plastic surgery jobs, i get more Cher and less Joan Rivers....hell, anything's better than Mickey Rourke! (i think Palmer had less plaster filler in him than all three of them) [ Edited by: tiki1963 2012-09-13 17:41 ] [ Edited by: tiki1963 2012-09-13 17:42 ]

the facelift has begun!

Bob's been nice enough to snap a few pics when I'm not down there during the process.

here's the Michelangelo of Tiki working on a piece by the Picasso of Tiki...

does that make this the Sistine Tiki?

anyhow, he's using a combination of light heat torching and burr bit in a grinder to pull off the bad paint.

hey, anytime something old has to be restored, it's traumatic and changes a bit from the original.

i'm just hoping in terms of plastic surgery jobs, i get more Cher and less Joan Rivers....hell, anything's better than Mickey Rourke! (i think Palmer had less plaster filler in him than all three of them)

[ Edited by: tiki1963 2012-09-13 17:41 ]

[ Edited by: tiki1963 2012-09-13 17:42 ]

Post #651957 by tiki1963 on Thu, Sep 13, 2012 5:40 PM