HodadHank's tikijunk: Colab w/ Wild Bill progress pics

LS3- hand carved shipwrecked teak, shell, pigments, seed oils, organic hemp braid w/ limpit shell clasp.
$ 38

[ Edited by: hodadhank 2008-08-24 21:31 ]

***** SOLD *****

LS4- hand carved shipwrecked teak, shell, pigments, seed oils, organic hemp braid w/ ostrich shell clasp. Enjoy this Tang's double wormy whammy. The shell was pierced by a hungry seaworm and perhaps the teak too. Anyway, your eyes don't decieve you, theres a hole where this fella's kidney ought to be!

[ Edited by: hodadhank 2008-10-02 11:53 ]

LS5- hand carved shipwrecked teak, shell, pigments, seed oils, organic hemp braid w/ shell clasp.

$38

[ Edited by: hodadhank 2008-08-24 21:33 ]

LS6- hand carved shipwrecked teak, shell, pigments, seed oils, organic hemp braid w/ pukka clasp.

$38

[ Edited by: hodadhank 2008-08-24 21:34 ]

***** SOLD *****

LS7 - hand carved shipwrecked teak, shell, pigments, seed oils, organic hemp braid w/ ostrich shell clasp. This one was carved by my buddy ETR while he had a bum hand. Still cool and ancient looking!

[ Edited by: hodadhank 2008-10-02 11:57 ]

I've made plenty of little tangaroas modeled after larger ones but never the reverse. I wanted to display my Shipwreck Tangs on some sort of piling and decided a matching two foot sand, kelp and shell encrusted Tang was just what the captain ordered.

I couldn't bring myself to attach mooring cleats to it's head but I did manage to include some faux seagull dookie!

Cool guys Hodad, I'll bet that Teak is Fun on your tools hey? The hook knife hates that wood.

very nice work.

Benjamin.

What are your store hours, Hank?

• hodadhank wrote:*
  A thread simply isnt a thread without a half naked Buzzy pin-up.

You're right, just helping to make your thread even that much better.
https://tikicentral.com/uploads/4531/48b2e0ba.jpg

Two years ago, boy shorts
This year, brief cut
Next year, ???

On 2008-08-25 07:46, Benzart wrote:
Cool guys Hodad, I'll bet that Teak is Fun on your tools hey? The hook knife hates that wood.

Thank you great one... ya know, I think all the time in the drink softened them up for me! BTW, Check your mail this week! :wink:

On 2008-08-25 22:36, benella wrote:
very nice work. Benjamin.

Remercie Benjamin. J'admire votre dessin-modèle aussi bien. Vos sculptures marquesan sont mon favori. Peut-être un commerce? Sorry my French stinks!

On 2008-08-25 22:40, Billy the Crud wrote:
What are your store hours, Hank?

We open at tenish then close and hide when you arrive. We re-open only after our sources have radioed your truck's been verified as heading east beyond the point of probable return, and then we close the second time around sixish. Pretty standard for most San Diego businesses. Ha! Gimme a call between 10&7 bro. 858 488 4924

On 2008-08-26 06:43, teaKEY wrote:
Two years ago, boy shorts, This year, brief cut, Next year, ???

Dang-it teaKey! I've already got a "Tasteful Buzzy Pin-up" on page 2. Not like your PAIPORN. Toooey! I just had to wash out my eyes with holy water. As for next year those crazy photo shoots, I thank San Diego's Parks & Recreation Dept for the bay that separates me from the half-naked Guy-jinks going on Buzzy's hilltop Gamorah. He's the Jackie Treehorn of woodchips. lol!

Wow, Good eye! That IS really Elvis Presley talking to a duck puppet onstage. It's OK, he had a perscription.

Antoinette carves!

Finishing up an ebony Mini-Tang commission.

I love the mini ebony Tang, he's perfect.

P.S: Your french seems as good as my english :)

P.S n°2 :

On 2008-08-26 17:10, hodadhank wrote:

Peut-être un commerce?

I would love !

Benjamin.

[ Edited by: benella 2008-08-27 06:31 ]

Nice collection there Hank, I really dig the skeleton crew. Stay busy
with your carving and french.

Ha! Hey Conga, how's Mindi doing in college?

Hope everybody enjoyed their Labor Day weekend.


Hard to tell if San Diego's new Beach Alcohol Ban is successful or tragic... This view of the Pacific should be obstructed by tents and happy families as far as the eye can see. At least the short boarders have plenty of room!

[ Edited by: hodadhank 2008-09-03 11:32 ]

Erik the Red & Dr No invited us to our favorite neighborhood resturant The China Inn August 28th for my Traditional Birthday Pu Pu.

No Big Deal, no singing waiters, no sparklers in ice cream and no presents. Perfect.

Well, it wasn't long before those mischievious Larson's produced a suspicious box.

Ironically wrapped in images of childhood and death. Brilliant... but still

"You tricked me!" "Too late now you old bastard!"

All's well that ends well. My first Techi!
Aloha and Mahalo Nui Loa guys!

Oh, we were hanging out at the bar and I pulled a bunch of recent tikijunk out of my pocket along with some shells, coral a nickle from Singapore, etc. While playing with the the exotic flotsom, Amy my favorite neighborhood mixologist fell in love with a new Hawaiian-style shipwrecked teak!

Long story short...Look for this little fella around Amy's neck during your next visit to The China Inn, 877 Hornblend St (between Bayard St & Mission Blvd) San Diego, CA 92109 (858)483-6680!

I remembered hearing toothless tikis were benevolent. Also less risky work at this size!

Ebony w/Bone Skull commission (SOLD) and Rosewood w/Glass Pearl Mini-Mod Tangs. Full bodied and free standable, PakoloLolita has already woven the necklaces for these pendants.

Just a test. To jewel or not to jewel that is the question!

Hank, that ebony one is sweet!

And Happy Birthday. How about a pic of that gift painting rightside up?

The rosewood one is amazing ! Nice work.

Benjamin.

Nice! love the little black one. The back and white contrast great.

Merci! Think how snappy that rosewood would look flying around your neck as you Vespa around the Arch du Triumph!

Bill, I'll post a pic of the Techi in its new place of honor up on the bridge overlooking the lagoon. Better yet, come on over and see for yerself! It really ties the room together man.

As promised a zebrawood Westerhausen Derivitive Faceless Mini-Tang w/Blue Freshwater Pearl, verigated home-dyed organic Hemp cording.

Just seeing how much detail I can strip away and have it still read as a Tang.
What do you guys think?

*** SOLD ***

[ Edited by: hodadhank 2008-10-02 11:28 ]

To jewel or not to jewel that is the question!

I think its good as no jewel. Love these tiki,
you have created a whole new type of tiki.

I think your pendants are great. The time spent on acquiring the cool exotic materials sets them apart. Thank you for the gift on monday. I'll wear it with complete pride.

Thanks guys.

Hey Reesnik, you're a champ.

The view from behind Freaky Boutiki last nite... As west as you get without getting wet.

[ Edited by: hodadhank 2008-09-05 17:05 ]

HodadHAnk, It would seem that you are Definitely a ONE of a kind being and you create one of a kind beings as well. I LOVE Seeing your pendants find their homes, they Seem SO HappyHAppyHAppy and you even seem to be happy your own self I have lots of little pieces of exotic woods which would make great pendants so IF you send me your address I will send you some? Sherry will Thank you!
Edited to say : OH yeah Almost Forgot HAppyHappy Happy Birthday!!!

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[ Edited by: Benzart 2008-09-05 18:37 ]

Hank, thanks for asking about Mindi. He's home from college but keeps asking
me about going to California. I just don't know where to send him, he eats
a lot.
Nice carvings, really like the black one.

On 2008-09-05 18:14, Benzart wrote:
HodadHAnk, It would seem that you are Definitely a ONE of a kind being and you create one of a kind beings as well. I LOVE Seeing your pendants find their homes, they Seem SO HappyHAppyHAppy and you even seem to be happy your own self I have lots of little pieces of exotic woods which would make great pendants so IF you send me your address I will send you some? Sherry will Thank you!
Edited to say : OH yeah Almost Forgot HAppyHappy Happy Birthday!!

Thanks fellas. Everybody loves that ebony. I expect to do a series of Mini Mod Marqs in ebony soon. Maybe Ben will include some ebony scraps in his care package!

More Shipwrecked Teak.

This time a Hawaiian. I was able to leave some original varnish and paint in a couple spots and oiled the rest with my usual mixture. These are an interesting angular change from the softer Tangaroas. Expect an organic hemp braid

[ Edited by: hodadhank 2008-12-06 13:02 ]

You have nailed these pendants. Every one has it's own vibe and essence!

Geez Hank, I just went through your thread and realized two things.
One, you haven't carved yourself a pipe yet(unless there's no photo evidence),and two, I've been over here quite a few times but haven't left any comments.
Well, I'm not about to start now.

Aww dammit, I guess this counts as a comment, huh?

You've got some great work going in here!

WOW, pretty cool teak one.
The zebra is kind of perfect too!

Benjamin.

the Hankster sez

Just seeing how much detail I can strip away and have it still read as a Tang.
What do you guys think?

you've succeeded!
stripping the Tang down
and he he still reads as a Tang!
genius you are Hank!

Hank, you sort a snuck in here through the back door hoping no one would notice and that everyone would buy your beautiful little tiki guyz. Well they are WAY to good to just be hanging around and we all want to know a bit about this "Hodad hank", and we want to see MORE Stuff, Bigger stuff and stone stuff and Bone stuff! Get the picture? I believe your hiding days are Over, C'mon out we SEE you in there! :D :P :LOL

Thanks guys for all the encouragement.

Monkey missed you @ the lagoon Kinny!

Here's the shipwreck Hawaiian I started before and continued @ the chop. I still have to sand away "the poopies" but his legs are too squat and torso too long for my liking.

Bowana pointed out the separated legs were a throwback to my Tangaroas and that I somehow had completely ignored the heels together stance of the vintage Hawaiian I'd been using as a guide! When you're right your right.

Bowana also reminded me of a great old trick when working in any medium:

Turn your piece upside down from time to time and you'll be surprised the little flaws and proportional miscalculations that jump out immediately!

Cool lil' guy, Hodaddy! :)

On 2008-10-02 13:19, hodadhank wrote:
Bowana also reminded me of a great old trick when working in any medium:

Turn your piece upside down from time to time and you'll be surprised the little flaws and proportional miscalculations that jump out immediately!

Betty Edwards is the one you want to thank:

http://members.optusnet.com.au/charles57/Creative/Drawing/index.html

Scroll down to the "Upside Drawing" link. Have fun!

Bowana

Since I'd misplaced my draw blade it seemed like as good a time as any to give Antoinette the feel for controling the chisel using different combinations of angle and elbow grease. She's done some whittling on smaller pieces but the bigger tools are new to her.

Designed as a teaching project for Jackhammer Cait & Antoinette based on rough scetches by Erik & me, I'm hoping whichever of us is around at any given time will be comfortable refining any of the four masks currently "on deck".

The end results may bare little resemblance to our original drawings after but I always liked "Whistle down the wire". :)

Hassan Patterson stopped by just in time for a stogie break.



Neighbor and glassblower Andre Meza & Timbershark. Must be Sunday!

Who did that last Marq, Antoinette? Or Erik? I like it a lot.

radd marq hodad!

[ Edited by: tikithomas08 2008-10-14 16:36 ]

Thanks guys!

I'll pass along your compliments to the crew. Cait and I did the lions share of carving on that first Marq.

Jackhammer Cait!

On 2008-09-16 18:54, Benzart wrote:
Hank, you sort a snuck in here through the back door hoping no one would notice... we all want to know a bit about this "Hodad Hank"...

Oy! You asked for it Ben!

I was born a poor black child and imediatly began searching for my SPECIAL PURPOSE...

Actually, I'm either a very late Boomer or a very early X-er.

I grew up in a mid mod household built on an old racetrack outside Philly. Our furniture was BLONDE Danish. Our lamps looked like freeform creamic space birds w/ rigidly geometric shades on top to keep them from floating away. My dad was a trumpet playing scientist who used to take me along to The Shark River atthe Jersey shore to study tidal zones, my mom worked for a record shop & radio station!

Dad's cars were chromey & finny & he would be disappointed we aren't all flying by now. We drove to Disneyworld twice...

I was lucky to have two bizarre castles literally at the end of my street. Henry Mercer's Home and Tileworks. Now museums, when I was a kid they were the Wonka to my Charlie Bucket!

Another across town built entirely out of concrete by the same eccentric Arts & Crafts movement supporter. A collector of the vanishing tools of pre-industrial America, many people thought he was insane as he'd stop a man working in his yard and offer buy his tools or wooden pail to fill his own giant museum of mundane items. Pretty cool wandering around this stuff as a kid!

I watched the moonwalk and ate Space Food Sticks.

I remember falling asleep to the sounds of cocktail parties, my mom always having the newest releases for the enormous Zenith. The exotic percussions driving me to dreamland perhaps leading me to become a drummer.

We dined at the Kona Kai...

Somehow avoided Vietman, Grenada, Panama, Persian Gulf, Bosnia, Afganistan & Iraq.

Instead became an artist, and with expensive degree in hand I waved goodbye to everyone I knew and drove to the middle of the desert for ten years on a whim.

Lived and worked along an eerily intact neon Route 66... AD for alterna-weekly, illustrator, painter, columnist, vintage vinyl "countersnob", gallery curator, musician.

It seems surreal now, but it was a dry surreal...

Met Rita & her six year old Noel, the only son I will ever know. Smart and funny and full of love. I miss him so much. Noel's birth father murdered him one night during visitation, served eight years and now lives a free man with his new family in Truth or Consequences NM.

Pit of dipair/nervous breakdown, living dangerously, no more art no more music etc etc, therapy, therapy, therapy, visit to California.

Swimming with hundreds of leopard sharks in La Jolla Cove was just what the doctor ordered.

Packed & moved to Imperial Beach CA... shortly openned The Freak Factory Inc in Mission Beach.

Used to carry Boskos, Tiki News, mugs and carvings behind the counter. We carried a big selection of vintage unflocked blacklite posters too. Think I've still got some someplace. Look great over a bar. Nice and sleeeeeeazy!

Our old Rick Griffin inspired mural featuring surfing eyeballs and muscle-bound Tikis attracted Dreamworks who used our portion of the boulevard to shoot a bunch of stuff they never used in Almost Famous. Hired the dog too.

Jeez... doesn't look like I've done much with the time the Lord gave me when you see it written down.

Guess I gotta get crackin!

Please send all complaints about this boring post to Benzart! lol

[ Edited by: hodadhank 2008-10-15 21:16 ]

Been working w/ Antoinette on a Cali-Style hybrid mask who's general proportions are a nod to the great Bosko.

Lookit Toni go!

A couple Erik the Reddesigns on deck in various stages of team carving. I love the triclops Marq!

Even Colonel Angus, metalworker by trade, was too curious not to "have a go" yesterday!

*On 2008-10-02 20:52, Bowana wrote:*Betty Edwards is the one you want to thank...

Oh my, That's right! Betty Edwards! I bought that book the year it came out... 1979!

So, I couldn't go to Bills to carve, and missed out on Kate Cakes and Meiksubi... but the day wasn't a total downer.

I had a wonderful visit from former neighbor Mandy who's daddy lay the carpet for the original Freak Factory over a decade years ago. In fact Mandy was no longer than my forearm and lay sleeping ina a blanket on the giant roll of carpet.

As it happens, Mandy has Show and Tell in fifth grade Monday and is learning about native cultures so "WE" decided she should carve a Rated-G Tangaroa quick.

Mandy has never carved before, but this is pretty much my own process for any carving whatever scale. Hope this is helpful or at the very least interesting.

Mandy used both chisel and draw blade to husk this ficus branch...

After sawing this in half we examined the proportions of other tikis in the shop. Mandy noticed that with few exceptions, about half the total tiki height was a massive head and the lower half divided between torso and legs. I explain that at this point I usually try not to think of the tiki as anything beyond merely a collection of positive and negative geometric shapes.

After mapping out the surface our tangaroa with a pink crayon I had Mandy defines with the head/torso divisions using gradually wider V chisels, soften the edges with straight and curved chisels and sand away any "poopies".

I didn't realise Mandy was holding it backwards till just now but shoulders and hands have already been roughed out on the other side. Detailing after lunch. It was 1:15 and I told her to met me back at the Boutiki at 2:00.
She says " how about 1:45?"...LOL Kids!

After torch work and some hook knife cleanup then more light sanding from Mandy, uses acrylic to darken the deepest relief areas. I would usually use stain but Mandy's gotta go before six!

A final application of Hodaddy's Patented Organic Tiki Rub and this curious little castrato Tang's ready to Show and Tell.

Well done, Mandy and HoDaddy!!

Instead of hodad, we should be calling you sensei.
Anything new yet?

Nice! Great looking tikis all around. Man what a fun time for all.

Thanks all...

I have said that we will occasionally find wood has been left for us by anonymous supporters.

Whether they be curious passers-by who've seen us carving daily along Mission Boulevard in Mission Beach, log-flush tiki centralites, tree trimmers helping turn trash to art or neighbors cleaning their yards...

we are VERY VERY grateful for ANY (NON-POISONOUS OR POSSUM INFESTED) woods, and of course the opportunity to awaken in others a curious interest in this traditional So Cal phenom.

Toni couldn't wait to shave down this latest generous donation: a six footer.




#2 of the Four Mask Project being detailed by Antoinette & HH.

ETR has two masks on deck and a lot of eager helpers!

DAAAAAAMN, I look stoney!?

Boy, that's a busy little stretch of sidewalk!

Cool to see everyone getting stoked on carving, especially the kids!

They're the ones that get to carry on the tiki torch!