Post #784109 by kahalakruzer on Mon, Feb 19, 2018 9:37 AM

So I figured I'll try and post all of the prep shots before I post the actual installation of the bar. Spent most of the 15 days building lamps and accessories and cutting trim. I am horrible at stopping while working to document anything, so bear with me on this one. I find myself taking a progress shot and then realize later that I never took a picture of the finished product.

I tried my hand at carving a little PNG inspired board from a redwood scrap that I had laying around.


Here's a little swizzle stick shadow box from the collection.




A few classic hanging lamps I made.





The outrigger lamp. I acquired a huge piece of Tongan tapa cloth from my boss that he had laying around in his garage. The end pieces that don't have much detail ended up being enough to make all of the lamps I had in mind.


I made a little rum crate with some of the scrap wood and slung it up with a killer matched set of block and tackle that I found at an antique store for a great price.






Sconces. The carved piece didn't end up making it into the bar, but the second version I made did. That's the clam shell on the shipwrecked looking wood that says Hobie.


Laying out the trim design. Free handed this Maori inspired design ( I think I saw something like it at OA at some point) and then ran a router to it. That was a full day work, so I enlisted some help to burn and brush everything before paint and varnish.


The finished product. All 160 feet of it.

I really dug this panel from 'The Art of Tiki'. It came out of a Trader Vic's. I had a 1'x12' that I found in a dumpster that would fit perfectly over the concrete outcropping in the middle of the room.


Here it is finished. Basically cut the faces in half and alternated them down the board. Free handing them only took a few minutes. That's one of the things I love about tiki stuff. You can get reeeeeal loose on the drawing part of it. I routed it, painted the recessed areas brown, sanded the sloppiness out of it, and then painted the rest with an acrylic paint and did a little brown wash over it to age it. I loved how much of a statement this thing made with only a few hours of work.

I found this canoe prow at an antique store and immediately knew I wanted to make an A-frame with it. Not sure of it's age or origin, but it reminded me of a PNG piece from one of my old primitive art books.


The unstained boards at the bottom were just used to stabilize the piece for transportation. I ended up having the angle all wrong when I went to install, so the whole piece ended up being cut down a bit to clear one of the trusses on the ceiling.

If you couldn't tell by the amount of pictures with our company logo in the background, I'll make it even easier for you. Here's a Witco World Map inspired piece that was poached from our warehouse and ended up being used in the shop.