surf soul tiki

well, since the new biz looks like it's gonna take off, I got a new photographer to shoot my stuff.

he shot this one yesterday... we're gonna shoot a bunch of my stuff on the beach for some sales literature,,,

Dude, awesome photo.................

Jon

Awesome and thensome.

yeah Dan knows his shit for sure,..

thanks guys... a lot of this new business stuff has to do with photos & imaging, so I have officially "brought in the big guns". lol...

so the mailbox tiki is done & ready to go in the ground...

coming soon...

(insert evil laughter here)

Cool promo shots and the mailbox tiki is a 10!

I want one or 2.

Luvin the mailbox! NICE. The promo pic would make a killer business card!

worked on the eyemask today....

morning quickie...,

the brothers grimm.... gettin' a tan...

very cool, the two tone really works.

oooh... something shiny!

let's see what I can make with these...

so yeah, this piece of ebony is gorgeous...

before:

after:

GROG like. Two semi-opposable thumbs up.

GROG, thank you sir...

I am very proud of this guy. Whenever he was commissioned, thought of all the mailboxes I'd seen other guys do, and the mailbox itself always looked like an afterthought....that, in a way, kinda killed the "flow" of the piece... I wanted to make the mailbox so subtle, that at first glance, one would not immediately say "oh, cool mailbox"...but instead,to look at it for a second and say "hey....that's a little mailbox in that tiki's mouth.".... I wanted it to be a tiki first, and a mailbox second, and not the other way around. I think I pulled it off.... :)

Anyway, no time to BASK in the GLORY of the MAILBOX.... this damned headdress ain't gonna SWIRL ITSELF... lol...

Lots O good stuff going on there bro

Jon

the little ebony tiki is coming together slowly but surely...

I'm givin' him like 20 or 30 minutes a day....

Kickass mailbox tiki, Jeff.

I like the direction you took, unique indeed.

I think the mailbox tiki is a rite of passage for any veteran tiki carver. You've gotta do at least one in your career. :)

thanks bro... I'm pretty stoked on it!

so yeah, I was able to recover some lost pics from an epic surf trip a few years ago...

well, we're startin' to see some daylight in between the cinnabuns...

but in retrospect, a big wet piece of cypress, fresh from the sawmill, would have been a better choice for this piece...the dried palm is not the easiest thing to put detail on with a chisel... it's crumbly as hell in there... :(

but I have way too much into it at this point... I gotta just ride it out & do the best I can with what I've got..

ok, the "beaded" headdress is FINALLY starting to look like what is in my head...

inching forward...

I think I'm gonna fill the big crack with 2 part epoxy & clamp it....

Every time I smack a chisel with the mallet I'm afraid it's just gonna break in half...lol..

On 2013-07-25 17:05, pjc5150 wrote:
the little ebony tiki is coming together slowly but surely...

I'm givin' him like 20 or 30 minutes a day....

Ya might need some smaller chisels on this one?

oh yeah andy, once I really get into him I'll definitely be bustin' out the little guys...

so here's what I did yesterday.... and wow, July in Florida is always brutal, but yesterday was supposedly, like the hottest day this year. I gave out after about 5 hours of the sun beating on me,.. gotta go back and put the chisels on him today....

I hear that the Black wood is really hard.
Chicks seem to like it tho.

Looks great!
Man is that just one day?

Got a light here for you will post pics
when I have them both.

day 2.

so yeah, started late, and then the customer started bringing beers out...

so I didn't get much done... but the eyemask is looking good...

I'm headed back over to finish today....

ok, so this guy is pretty much done..

well, GREETINGS FROM BIZARRO WORLD!

3 years ago this tiki was stolen from the exact spot it's sitting right now.

today it was returned with this crude THANK YOU note....

weird. wish I would have caught them....

Anyway, it's only been home a few hours and he's already sold....lol...

well, after sitting by my front door for the last few years, the pest control dude bought "No Wake Charlie" for his wife's birthday.

I kinda miss him already.... :(

That really is bizarre. Don't you wish he could talk? Wonder what the story is...

DUDE THAT IS WIERD! thats something you would see in the news. raiders of the lost tiki!

looks like I've got BLUE BALLS!!! LOL!!!!

these are for the "BLUE HAWAII" tikis....

goin' deep... about 3 and half, 4 inches on that eyesocket.... a lot of chisel work left on this guy....

gonna cut that eye down some so it recessed a little...

Least they brought him back ,must of sobered up .

This guy's taking a while by your standards! looks like he's going to be very cool when he's done...

Lookin good Soul man.

thanks guys... and yeah, this is one is taking awhile..

I want it to be good.

ladies & gentleman,

we have a website...

http://surfsoultiki.com/

hairballzzz...

Your website looks professional Jeff, nice work!

thanks Cy. the best part is, it was free... lol....

almost done with this one...

Way sweet lookin bro
Two thumbs up

Jon

Did you take out the rotten part?

well, part of it fell out... lol...

I'm cuttin' the rest out when my new saw gets here...