Tiki Finds - Collecting Tiki

Z Zinctiki Tiki Socialite Joined: Aug 11, 2010 Posts: 134	Z Zinctiki Posted posted on Sun, May 18, 2014 11:28 PM Picked up this 7'3" half-log today. Kind of a love-it-or-hate-it piece, as most of my friends and neighbors seemed aghast. Lots of splits and nasty wood putty all over. There are 4 holes in each side with bolts going through it - apparently to keep it from splitting any more. So I dubbed it "Frankenstein" for now; also because the carved references are from various 'parts' of Asia and Hawaii. The more I looked at it the more I had to have this thing. There's no history, except that it's from Yucaipa, it's hardwood and couldn't have been easy to carve this much detail. It was someone's labor of love. Maybe someone on acid? From a distance it looks fairly simple, but as I got closer the detail kept drawing me in - like falling into a Mandelbrot set. Trippy.

Picked up this 7'3" half-log today. Kind of a love-it-or-hate-it piece, as most of my friends and neighbors seemed aghast. Lots of splits and nasty wood putty all over. There are 4 holes in each side with bolts going through it - apparently to keep it from splitting any more. So I dubbed it "Frankenstein" for now; also because the carved references are from various 'parts' of Asia and Hawaii.

The more I looked at it the more I had to have this thing. There's no history, except that it's from Yucaipa, it's hardwood and couldn't have been easy to carve this much detail. It was someone's labor of love. Maybe someone on acid?

From a distance it looks fairly simple, but as I got closer the detail kept drawing me in - like falling into a Mandelbrot set. Trippy.

Post #717432 by Zinctiki on Sun, May 18, 2014 11:28 PM