Post #732967 by nicework on Thu, Dec 11, 2014 9:02 AM

I am mentally ill. My Mom use to tell me i was so Artistic, so i began to draw and took a liking to art
As i got older what she was saying is that I was so Autistic. So i ran with the artistic saying,. God knows I am borderline retarded, and that's OK. I make do with what I am.

I say all that to say this, this is why I have to write things down I have a disease of the ism's Instant short memory. this is information that I have been getting from other people here on tiki central and other places,

1. sable palm is good cuts better when wet. ( i wonder if you can re wet it if it gets dry like spraying with water)

2. whashington palm is cool to carve not to much park and can be solid. but has tendency to rot faster.

3 I must suggest to customers to keep indoors or away from water it they want it to last.

4.If staining, geez I don't know. if the carving is inside use a water base stain if out side use a oil base stain.
so i guess the best stain to use would be a oil base so it can be in or out.

5 using poly well if your using a poly and your coating a painted piece make sure the paint and poly are the same either water or oil if not they will not adhear to each other.

6 You can put a oil base paint on water base paint but you Can not use a water base paint on a oil base paint.

7 If painting a tiki you can paint it with a water latex primer and build on that using water base paint like acrylic and using a water base poly but can only be for indoors. this will apply the same for using a oil base keep oil base with oil base and water base with water base.

8 make sure the carving is dry before doing anything let dry for a week if it starts to mold let dry longer.

If any body want to correct anything i wrote please do if any body want to add by all means please do