Post #804490 by tikiskip on Mon, Jul 11, 2022 6:22 AM

Oh, ok the whole guts thing threw me off, I have had to take out that cotton stuffing before never heard of the bladder thing. You can see on some of the old starfish lamps that they did use fish that were not dry yet and they could then form the fish to make the feet of the lamp etc.

"there's no way I'm going to even attempt dusting the pufferfish lamps."

You know some of the lights I have are form the Kahiki egg roll plant that's where they were when I bought them, used to be that you could tell if the light was from the Kahiki by the peanut oil smell they had on them from being around all that frying of who knows what.

Damn did they hang them in the place where they made the food, the smell was strong. But that smell has gone away after all these years.

One thing that did not go away was the oil on the light, so I wanted to clean that off a bit as well what with the oil and then dust it was like being tar and feathered.

We once helped decorate the Windward passage for Christmas one year and my wife was on the bar top hanging decor and the fish traps up there had SO much dust on them.

In a video we took of the last night at the Kahiki party I was zoomed in on a light and you can see a roach climbing up the chain the light was hung from.

But the restaurants must clean that stuff as dust bunnies can fall into your food. They made me replace the tiles in my restaurant as the had faded a bit just yellowed some, and I had to fix that, so I don't know how some of these places get away with what they do.

The pest control would be a nightmare in these tiki bars, I think impossible.