Help Identify, What Is This, Is This A? Thread - Collecting Tiki

AP Aloha pinball Grand Member (1 year) Florida - New Mexico- Maryland Joined: Nov 10, 2012 Posts: 52	AP Aloha pinball Posted posted on 06/26/2016 On 2016-06-17 00:15, Club Nouméa wrote: On 2016-04-23 15:11, Aloha pinball wrote: Another oddity- just picked this up today, I was thinking it didnt look like a Tiki exactly, but the price was right. It is carved hardwood, finished on the back, and has the (so far useless to me) on the base "Tung-U, God of the V.L." Just apply some paint stripper and restain that guy a slightly darker colour and he would look quite respectable in any tiki bar. Thanks Much (and Thank you to Bigbro as well) for the identification. I'm tempted to strip the paint but it appears to have been on it for many years. Meanwhile this weekend I found a really cool "modern" style Tiki dated 1957. I'll post that on Tiki finds in a minute. [ Edited by: Aloha pinball 2016-07-10 10:29 ]

On 2016-06-17 00:15, Club Nouméa wrote:

On 2016-04-23 15:11, Aloha pinball wrote:
Another oddity- just picked this up today, I was thinking it didnt look like a Tiki exactly, but the price was right. It is carved hardwood, finished on the back, and has the (so far useless to me) on the base "Tung-U, God of the V.L."

Just apply some paint stripper and restain that guy a slightly darker colour and he would look quite respectable in any tiki bar.

Thanks Much (and Thank you to Bigbro as well) for the identification. I'm tempted to strip the paint but it appears to have been on it for many years. Meanwhile this weekend I found a really cool "modern" style Tiki dated 1957. I'll post that on Tiki finds in a minute.

[ Edited by: Aloha pinball 2016-07-10 10:29 ]

Post #765479 by Aloha pinball on 06/26/2016