Post #784545 by Prikli Pear on Thu, Mar 1, 2018 12:54 PM

If you have a bar Commercial or home document that in hard copy, if you are not one of the people who have connections with the few that do document tiki these days your efforts will die with you.

If you make tiki art/carve document that, as the art may live, but the methods or info on what you did will die as well.

You know, there's a self-publishing platform, Blurb, that I've worked with in the past. Here's a link to the photo book I published with them, just for context: Ghosts of the Chicken Ranch. The books are on the pricey side, simply because they're print-on-demand and full-color printing ain't cheap. That aside, there are quite a few different formats and sizes available that can control costs if that's an issue. Given decent, high-resolution photographs, there's no reason anyone here couldn't put together a nice tome dedicated to a particular home bar in short order. Even a fairly lavish book would still cost less than a lot of tiki mugs I've seen.

The best thing about Blurb is that there are no up-front costs. The author's required to order a proof before the finished product can be offered for sale to the general public, but that's a far cry from vanity presses that demand thousands up front. I'd not considered this as a way of preserving the memory of home bars before, but Skip's always thinking a few steps ahead of the rest of us.