Palama Tiki: First Commissioned Piece

here's the latest; a girl at work wanted me to carve up a tiki for her dad's patio.

photo was emailed from a camera phone, so it's not the best, and the head and feet are cut off, but that's the best one. he looks better in person.

He loog=ks great what we can see. Looks like a nice dark stain and finish too. Well done and congrats..

Thanks Ben... i'm not happy with the photo quality, but i did like the way he turned out, and so did the new owners, so i guess that's what counts.

Great job! So much talent on this site and everyone is so creative.....

thanks Princess!

My man... To cool. Lets see a second pic! Looks great!

Thanks Thanatos. i'll see if i can clean up the other photo; it's kinda blurry and the lighting is not good.

congrats...

the snow ball has started rolling down the mountain....

perfect excuse to invite yourself over for drinks and snacks.. to take better pix of the tiki!

nice work!

cool looking little dood. The dark stain does give him a good bit of character

Thanks flacookz, dogbytes, hewey... i was thinking about inviting myself over, but i'm moving on to the next tiki; i started a maori guy in pine, then i'll start on a Ku-style in sabal palm.

i really need to take the carving to the next level and start bringing them to life.