Tiki Makover

We found this "Jimmy Buffetized" 5' Tiki last year at a swap meet. The older couple said they got it from their neighbor before she moved, and was used as a stage prop for her Polynesian dancing.

I used a wire brush to get most of the neon paint job off.

Then took the torch to it .

Not overly detailed (maybe that's why someone felt the neeed for paint), but we like it anyway. Has lotsa hatchet marks and the top is concave and burned......flaming tiki?

Frighteningly enough, it reminds me of the Shroud of Turin.

The Tiki of Turin?
The Shroud of Tiki?

Formikahini, that's it exactly! The Tiki of Turin, haha!

Good revival, bongo. That's one more Mai Tai for you when you go the the Big Tiki Bar in the Sky.

I miss Bongo and his many fabulous CD's that pertain to the kind of music I grow hair on my palms for...

Holy Tiki Bongofury, thats a familiar looking tiki and I guess Formikahini has to be right the Tiki of Turin, the shrouded tiki, the one tiki you need to pray to?
I better shut up

Holy!!!!!?????.........did not notice that. Formikahini.......maybe the church going side of the family that began to avoid me as our Tiki collection grew will see the light.

I better say my three "Hail Tikis".