Creating tiki from scratch - Tiki Carving

T TheBigT Tiki Socialite Fabulous Houston Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 1798	T TheBigT Posted posted on Tue, Sep 17, 2019 1:46 PM I suppose if one had the right location, maybe a beach with plenty of driftwood, shells and possibly rocks to use as tools, you could make some crude tikis in an afternoon. If you were camping out somewhere and could source/make the tools and then also find good carving material you might be able to do better. It might actually be fun to try (once). But I'm confident that if the polynesians had chainsaws and angle grinders, they would have used them too. That said, the detail and polish they achieved without the aid of modern tools is rather impressive. [ Edited by: TheBigT 2019-09-17 13:55 ]

I suppose if one had the right location, maybe a beach with plenty of driftwood, shells and possibly rocks to use as tools, you could make some crude tikis in an afternoon.

If you were camping out somewhere and could source/make the tools and then also find good carving material you might be able to do better.

It might actually be fun to try (once). But I'm confident that if the polynesians had chainsaws and angle grinders, they would have used them too. That said, the detail and polish they achieved without the aid of modern tools is rather impressive.

[ Edited by: TheBigT 2019-09-17 13:55 ]

Post #797455 by TheBigT on Tue, Sep 17, 2019 1:46 PM