Post #75890 by Lake Surfer on Thu, Feb 12, 2004 10:15 PM

Pop... name the event and I'll haul my tikis down there... $25-$50 a foot... I can barely get that in Wisconsin...! people haven't a clue here what I'm selling anyhow... "A what?" Which is why I only deal with those in the know or someone with an open mind. On the average I spend between 8-30 hours on anything ranging from 14 inches to 6 feet. And I would feel guilty not putting my all into a carving and trying to sell it... sort of cheating myself just to make a buck. Which is not why I carve them anyhow... I want to share the aloha with people through my work and I feel that once this creation comes out of the wood it is something spiritual... sometimes I feel guilty selling them at all... I would just like to recoop my materials cost...

Most of the time I can't part with my creations either... you spend that much time and effort on something you hate to let it go...