bigt carvings - Tiki Carving

T TheBigT Tiki Socialite Fabulous Houston Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 1798	T TheBigT Posted posted on Wed, Aug 14, 2019 9:18 AM Partial summer update! I recently finished this 6' carving for a bar here in Texas (to be named later, I hope). The request was for a duplicate of what is believed to be a Milan Guanko carving. So I did this based on some pictures I was given. I've never seen a guanko (or any other) tiki with the hand placements like this one so it actually took me a while to figure out what was going on from the photos I was given. Never got a good photo of the back but I think it's probably pretty close to the original. Then put my own design on the base. The original: Prestaining: First coat of finish: Several coats later... [ Edited by: TheBigT 2019-08-14 09:38 ]

Partial summer update! I recently finished this 6' carving for a bar here in Texas (to be named later, I hope). The request was for a duplicate of what is believed to be a Milan Guanko carving. So I did this based on some pictures I was given. I've never seen a guanko (or any other) tiki with the hand placements like this one so it actually took me a while to figure out what was going on from the photos I was given. Never got a good photo of the back but I think it's probably pretty close to the original. Then put my own design on the base.

The original:

Prestaining:

First coat of finish:

Several coats later...

[ Edited by: TheBigT 2019-08-14 09:38 ]

Post #796811 by TheBigT on Wed, Aug 14, 2019 9:18 AM