The French touch !!! ;-)

Hi Tiki carvers !

After a lot of visits on TC, I decided to post my first realisations...
I would just like to introduce myself quickly !
My name is Vincent, I live in France, just at the Swiss and German borders, and I'm addict to VW aircooled, good music, beachcruisers, custom Art in general and tiki carving of course.
Due to a lot of passions VW's, music (I play guitar in a famous :wink: Ska band http://www.myspace.com/packageska ), webcreation ... I sculpt very slowly (around 2 tikis per year !!!). But I'll try to invest more time in this activity !!!

I started to carve at the summer 2006, after a HotRod meeting in Swiss. I was not at this event, but a couple of friends (Seb and AKUAE on TC) meet an europeen legend: HAKAI !!! :wink:, and brought me a lot of picture of his realisations. 1 week later, we bought our first log of wood !

OK ! Enough writting.
You will see below me 3 first Tiki's. I hope you'll enjoy it !

The first is about 20cm (8 inch)
His name is "BOB" because I made it when my son was born and I looked every day "Spongebob" at the TV !

The second is in a 65cm (25 inch) peace of beech
He is called "JAZ"

The last I've just finished this week is about 93cm (36 inch) in an old worn log of pine. We can see a lot of worm holes ! It was my challenge to reborn this ugly and dead peace of wood !!!
I give him the name "HAPPY", because he makes me smile !

The next in 6 months !!! :wink:
See ya'
Vinz

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Very clean lines. GROG really like that Moai.

Welcome to TC.

[ Edited by: GROG 2008-01-17 13:45 ]

Really nice ! I also like the clean lines.
I have also used Beech a couple of times as it seems to be quite easy to come across localy to me here in the Uk ..
I love the sharpness of "JAZ"

Hope to see some more ..

Welcome and get comfortable. Great stuff.

Aloha coxico,

nice tikis, they are "tres bien". For some reason I like the name of your first one :wink:
The happy moai is my favorite, very very cool style !

welcome to TC mon ami ! I'm French too !

I love the moai that has wonderful grain and design.
Your work is very good so please, carve more often :wink:

Benjamin.

Hi Coxico

WONDERFUL
A perfect last Tiki - i'm jalous :)
i'm very happy to see now your pictures on TC
great stuff and now you have to do more and more and more

The Tiki Feaver is still on fire in Alsace :)

hope to see you this week end - :)
Sunday Tiki Workshop in the kitchen ??? :)

by AKUAE

Wellcome coxico! What a great start at TC. Your first tiki is a very clean carving for the first one.
Your Moai is also pretty nice. You Elsass guys are realy funny and I hope we´ll meet us sometimes.
Aloha, Kai

Bienvenue a TikiCentral.

Your tikis are very nicely carved, welcome to TC. We hope to see more carvings.

Nice Work !! Dont worry about Worm holes, they just add character to the wood.
More pics. BUFFBAD

Hi,

Thank you very much for all your message ! :wink:
It's nice to meet here some frenchies (Benella), some guys I have met on Rockabilly or HotRod meetings (Haikai), friends (AKAUAE) and all the other Tiki addicted !

Your messages are a good motivation to carve again and again ! Sure that 2008 will be a very productive year for me ... I hope ! :wink:

I'll keep you informed about the further projects !
One of them is to reproduce the Squidward's house, the favorite Spongebob's character of my son. :wink:

We are far away the traditionnal tiki's but I think it could be a nice gift for his birthday !

See ya'
Vinz

Hi carvers,

Let me introduce you the new member of the family !
More pictures & details asap !

Bye
Vinz

The Moai see, the Moai like!

More pictures! More pictures!

Awesome crazy Lono carving you've doing... Can't wait to see him in Paris.

J.

On 2010-04-15 22:36, laojia wrote:
More pictures! More pictures!

Awesome crazy Lono carving you've doing... Can't wait to see him in Paris.

J.

Yep +1

Mahalo,

B.

Ciao Vincenzo,

awesome finished LONO
absolut perfect - i'm very very happy happy and very sad that you can't bring him
yourself to Paris sniffffff
But a great place will be reserved at the TIKI TRIBE and also in my car going to PARISSSSSSSS
please put some more pics on TC
great great

cheers
Akuae

There is some excellent work in your thread.
Keep carving

Hi,

As promised, more pictures about "Shaka", the last Tiki I carved !

• High: 97 cm (38 inch)
• Wood: unknown, but definitely "quince tree" ! (no idea how it's called in english)
• Weight: heavy !! :wink:

The original shape of the log leads we to carve it in this position, one knee at the ground.
I'm not really happy with the stain I used for the finish. Looking for a best solution (ideas are welcome)

"SHAKA" with his new Friend "JAZ" !

Yes, it's a pity that I can't bring him myself to Paris at the Tiki Tribe, but he 'll be there !

Bye for now !
Vinz

Wonderful carvings you are creating here. I love the guy down on one knee. Always interesting to see a new twist.

Well done he looks great!