Tropicana TIKIs - Tiki Carving

B Benzart Member Port Saint Lucie, Florida Joined: Jan 09, 2004 Posts: 10397	B Benzart Posted posted on Sun, Jan 11, 2004 6:46 PM I Uploaded the rest of the Tropicana pictures that I scanned. This is All the Pix I have of that job. Enjoy. this one was knocked down by a painter in a golf cart. the result was 2 feet of missing headdress. This longhouse had 12 poles that were carved in the upright position, not how I was used to carving. Also they wanted these to more "authentic" looking from pictures they had of other carvings. I still blended my own style into each one. That was a 13 ft redwood piece. They shipped a semi load of 4 10 to 13 ft logs from N.California. When I first got there(Tropicana), the Landscape manager took me to the pile of logs he had been saving from the Tropicana Golf Course.They were All Giant Washingtonion Palms. I was really unhappy because I had had my fill of Palm carving, but I dove in. One fo the Redwood logs turned into this Dougout Canoe Well, this is enough for now, I'll load more later, Hopefully I won't have to edit this to get the pix to show. [ Edited by: Benzart on 2005-03-26 07:03 ]

I Uploaded the rest of the Tropicana pictures that I scanned. This is All the Pix I have of that job. Enjoy.

this one was knocked down by a painter in a golf cart. the result was 2 feet of missing headdress.

This longhouse had 12 poles that were carved in the upright position, not how I was used to carving. Also they wanted these to more "authentic" looking from pictures they had of other carvings. I still blended my own style into each one.

That was a 13 ft redwood piece. They shipped a semi load of 4 10 to 13 ft logs from N.California.

When I first got there(Tropicana), the Landscape manager took me to the pile of logs he had been saving from the Tropicana Golf Course.They were All Giant Washingtonion Palms. I was really unhappy because I had had my fill of Palm carving, but I dove in.

One fo the Redwood logs turned into this Dougout Canoe