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Tiki Phil's Polynesian Village light and sign

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TikiPhil posted on 06/26/2007

A few years back I purchased a light from the parking lot of Walt Disney World's Polynesian Village. I bought it from http://www.mousesurplus.com. Disney updated the Polynesian and put in all new lights, so mousesurplus sold the old ones. These are the pictures from mousesurplus:


And here's an old photo I found showing one of the lights in the parking lot:

I had to rewire it. It had very old wiring, some transformers and a bizare lightbulb in it that I never saw before. I made a pole for it out of four treated 2x4s. Here's a picture of it in my back yard:

I really like the sign on the lightpole that you can see in the parking lot picture above. The one above has an L on it. The lights all have letters on them to help you remember where you parked. I wanted my sign to have more then just a letter on it. I used this picture for inspiration:

Using this picture I created this sketch that I then took to Kinkos to have printed on large paper. I changed the wording to Tiki Phil's which is what everyone calls my back yard.

I traced it onto some wood I bought at Home Depot and cut it out:

Five months of carving in my freetime and I had this:

I painted it and attached it to my light. Here's the finished project:

[ Edited by: TikiPhil 2007-06-30 09:44 ]

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Tiki-Kate posted on 06/26/2007

That's just fantastic, Phil. Well done.

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little lost tiki posted on 06/26/2007

Good Job!
5 months of carving...Wow!
Now that's an item you can be proud of!

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Lake Surfer posted on 06/26/2007

That's some nice carving and a great idea! You could go into business refurbishing old signs and posts... just have to speed up the process a bit. :wink:

Really though, you should be proud of what you did, and the extra time shows in the end result!

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VampiressRN posted on 06/26/2007

Wow....very kewl. When are you installing the rides? I got E tickets. ")

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AlohaStation posted on 06/26/2007

Superb!!

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frostiki posted on 06/26/2007

That rehab of the light with your "new" sign is great.

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Bora Boris posted on 06/26/2007

Every once in a while something really great pops up on Tiki Central and reminds me why I like this stuff so much. Your lamp post and sign fall into that category. Excellent job, Thank you.

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Tipsy McStagger posted on 06/26/2007

five months!! you could have had pariarts paul laser cut that for you in 5 minutes!!

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Clarita posted on 06/26/2007

Very nice! Congrats!

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TikiPhil posted on 06/30/2007

Thanks everyone for all the compliments. Yes, I am very proud of it. I have never carved before and I only worked on it in my free time, an hour or so at a time, that is why it took so long.

Yea I know I could have had Pariarts, or somone else, laser cut it for me. Or I could have used a router. But I wanted the satisfaction of doing it by hand, by myself. Also, the original Polynesian Village signs were all made by Oceanic Arts http://www.tikicentral.com/oa/oa23.htm in the late 60s and I doubt they used a laser cutter :)

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ZuluMagoo posted on 07/01/2007

FANTASTIC work Phil. Looks exceptional.

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suburbanpagan posted on 07/01/2007

I love it! It looks incredible! Great nostalgic piece! Great job!

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