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chin tiki lamp restoration!!

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Tipsy McStagger posted on 09/08/2007

okay- i was inspired by tiki skips post about refurbishing a kahiki lamp.......these lamps were done early this year but i thought i would share anyway since it was along the same lines...

behold!!!

... the following pics are of some rusty moldy lamps from chin tiki detroit....they were never used as they were still wrapped in moldy paper dated from the 60's......i've been told that these were from the mauna loa originally, since the mauna loa had lamps like this.....apparently chin tiki bought alot of the surplus from the mauna loa garage sale after the place went under after a few short months of operation....the lamps were battery powered ...obviously, the batteries were corroded and all else was unsalvageable so i made these into electric lamps.....

and the finished lamps......


"You may think it's boogers...but it's snot !!!"

[ Edited by: Tipsy McStagger 2007-09-08 09:37 ]

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tikiskip posted on 09/08/2007

Those are AWESOME!
Great job.
I love these small table lamps.

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jpmartdog posted on 09/09/2007

Those lamps turned out great! What a great find! They look A-1! Why is your Kon tiki bowl upside down? Lol

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teaKEY posted on 09/09/2007

chin tiki lamp restoration- I thought that you were talking about your Black Moai table lamps :wink: Just pulling your leg

You did those lamps justice. They couldn't have looked better when they were new, whatever that would have looked like.

-April 597-0594

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Bora Boris posted on 09/09/2007

Excellent!!

SG
Sam Gambino posted on 09/13/2007

What a great job on an excellent relic, Dave!

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pappythesailor posted on 09/13/2007

Fantastic! I just love what you did with those lamps.

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GentleHangman posted on 09/14/2007

Superlative job! They look magnificent!

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Tipsy McStagger posted on 09/14/2007

thanks for the compliments, all!!

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suburbanpagan posted on 09/14/2007

Awesome job! Great restoration!

QK
Queen Kamehameha posted on 09/19/2007

really nice!!!!

Amy

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JimTandem posted on 09/21/2007

Isn't it satisfying to put some elbow grease into a project and come out with some cool stuff? Nice job Tipsy....now who's the sweetie on your corkboard?

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Tipsy McStagger posted on 09/22/2007

On 2007-09-21 16:49, JimTandem wrote:
Isn't it satisfying to put some elbow grease into a project and come out with some cool stuff? Nice job Tipsy....now who's the sweetie on your corkboard?

thanks for all the positive feedback everyone......the girl on the cork board is one of those hooker flyers they have (not so much these days) all over the kiosks of vegas....and the ugly sucker you see in the background of the other picture is ol' howard stern.

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teaKEY posted on 09/22/2007

"now who's the sweetie on your corkboard"

That's April

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RevBambooBen posted on 09/23/2007

That's Awesome dude!

Where do you find the time?

Keep up the good work!

Gnarley!

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