Post #716981 by Bay Park Buzzy on Wed, May 14, 2014 7:32 PM

On 2014-05-14 17:13, ErichTroudt wrote:

I stared at the pics and it seems The statue you have marked #3 is very similar to my #1, but with tiny differences... the eyes, the hands and the head carving down the sides.

and yes, buzzy should do a coco joes book...

I would say that your #1 is a stylized reinterpretation of #3. It has more exaggerated and cartoony features, almost like a caricature of the original source.

The tiki that is polystone #3, was made by at least 4 companies that I know of:

South Sea Sales, Holo Ka Hana, Polystone, and Big Island sands. The way I tell them apart is by the belly. One is rounded at the bottom, and the other is tapered. Polystone is the same as South sea sales, and Big Island sands matches the Holo Ka Hana one.

Big Island sands did it in every sand type they could find:

I'll co write a book about Coco Joes someday, hopefully with House of Ku and AquaRJ... They got a lot of stuff I don't have. They just don't show it off as often as I do. :wink: Between the 3 of us, we could probably cover a lot of ground.
Several years ago I was blown away by the lava pieces chapter in Tiki Quest. Now I'm like, yeah, got all those...

Buzzy Out!