Post #703443 by danlovestikis on Tue, Dec 31, 2013 11:20 AM

TikiHula it's pretty dangerous in the tiki jungle room. If you rolled over and bumped a mug you'd have Dan to answer too and that's scary!

hang10tiki a Fez Volcano Shrunken Head bowl. This is a self made swap. Tiki Hula is trading his computer skills in exchange for learning and making tikis. He keeps adding up the hours on this bowl to see how many days he has to spend training Dan and I on the computer. I've got hours in the bank!

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The day began with adjustments to one head. The features were to refined compared to the other two.

Working hard and loving every minute.

With all three heads sculpted the necks needed to be cut off. Yikes!

So these are the faces that will need to be shrunk.

Tiki Hula said he's satisfied with how they turned out.

Since they were hollowed out the tops need to be filled so that they are cups for rum fires. So I smoothed a sticky clay plug into the hole.

Next I filled the head over and used a brush inside to smooth and remove air bubbles from the plug.

Next Tiki Hula studied the bowl to see where he wanted the heads placed.

We started with the head in the back centered to the front of the Fez. I cut off a wedge of clay from the back of the head.

I checked the fit and removed more clay

then I added sticky clay back into the same area to use as glue.

I lowered and pushed forward the head until it was in place. Tiki Hula guided the positioning.

I smoothed the sides and top and removed excess sticky clay.

We did the same for the second head

and then the third head.

Dan is checking to see how we were coming along.

The end of this day has come. There is a lot to do yet. The hair, the shrunken faces. which will add more hours into my trade bank.

One view looking down on top of the AL DEAD bowl.

Tiki Hula will return tomorrow for more work.

Cheers, Wendy