MadDog Mike's Platterful of Pupule - El Tiki/Ben Wilson Wall Finished - Other Crafts

M MadDogMike Grand Member (8 years) The Anvil of the Sun Joined: Mar 30, 2008 Posts: 11035	M MadDogMike Posted posted on Sat, Aug 12, 2023 4:19 PM I recently went to the Royal Hawaiian in Laguna Beach, CA. Very cool place, one of the things that attracted me was a sawfish rostrum mounted on the bar wall. But real ones are $1,500-2,000 so I decided to make a fake one. I started with a bunch of teeth made from a 5/8 wooden dowel. I cut the body out of XPS foam Shaped the edges of the body with a ShurForm rasp and sandpaper. Drilled holes into the foam and glued the teeth in Painted a base coat of off white latex paint, the antiqued with browns and yellow ochre. Then a couple coats of clear gloss polyurethane and hung on the wall.

I recently went to the Royal Hawaiian in Laguna Beach, CA. Very cool place, one of the things that attracted me was a sawfish rostrum mounted on the bar wall.

But real ones are $1,500-2,000 so I decided to make a fake one. I started with a bunch of teeth made from a 5/8 wooden dowel.

I cut the body out of XPS foam

Shaped the edges of the body with a ShurForm rasp and sandpaper. Drilled holes into the foam and glued the teeth in

Painted a base coat of off white latex paint, the antiqued with browns and yellow ochre. Then a couple coats of clear gloss polyurethane and hung on the wall.

Post #810321 by MadDogMike on Sat, Aug 12, 2023 4:19 PM