Carvings from Frog Island Tikis

It would be really hard to pick one they all look great.

Hang 10, Caliente is right around the corner, thanks Will, I struggle a bit with adding color, hil we can do some "bundling" as that American Picker guy says.
Finished these by adding dark brown into the deeper recesses, just like will carve learned me.

A combo of dark and clear stain.

Here are the smaller, backlit poplar pieces.

This is cedar that was milled about 40 years ago.

And lastly an alder branch with a cannibal flavor.

Fork.

Knife.

Spoon.

Way kool bruddah

Thanks H10, it's been warming up a bit around Oregon, enough to get a few painted.
Alder is a hoot to carve.



A mixture of grey and brown stain, brushed on and quickly wiped off. A steel wooling and "Long Pig" is done.

Milled cedar with two coats of urethane, sandings in between for smoothness. One more coat.

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Frog island lookin good

On a walk this am
Sportin my Frog Island gear

Be careful.
People get mugged for less than that.

Like the old yellow pages ad, you "Never Stop Selling", thanks Jonny!

:)
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I have a much different take on Tiki Central, and think it is on the rebound and will once again take it's rightful place in the sharing and growing of tiki culture throughout the world, but in case I am wrong here are a few progress shots while you are still here.
A sweet gum log.



These two are ready for the trip to Palm Springs and Tiki Caliente.

A branch of cedar that was commissioned for a birthday gift.

Dude
That gum wood looks great

See u soon in PS bruddah

Killer, cy!

Been on TC AWOL for a bit, trying to get back in and visit- especially since the TC renaissance is coming????

Not sure if I'm making it to Caliente, would be fun to hang out in May rather have to wait til August.

Thanks H10 and Ano, I will be seeing you both soon at Caliente and Oasis. I have been having fun with these cedar Columbia River floats, which I purchased while on vacation at the Oregon coast. They will accompany me to the Palm Springs event, just a week and a half away.

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Those floats are so cool.
They look like the coco nuts I'm doing.
I'll post them soon.
They're fun to do to.

Man those r kool

CY at Caliente
Awesome work bruddah
Cheers

Something for every one there.
Good job,
nice work.
Have fun.

Always a pleasure to see you and Sew Tiki Jon, thanks for the cool pics!

Cheers bruddah

That there rum drink mixed with water was the best I had all weekend, thanks H10. Slowly making progress on some new work.
This one is being built from an old milled piece of cedar.

It's being made for a piece of wood and fabric from another project.

More floats, these for the Tiki Central swap, Steven Crane being the subject.

New floats for Tiki Kon here in Portland at the end of this month.

I do not know what I am doing with this stick, but I do know I am doing something with it.

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"New floats for Tiki Kon here in Portland at the end of this month."

These are really cool Cy!

"I do not know what I am doing with this stick, but I do know I am doing something with it."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJQEl5vcAo

Too funny skip!

Lookin good Cy

Skip- almost spit out my coffee :)

Well, u could,

Hang10 I actually did that exact thing to take pictures of them a while back. Here is progress on a piece of cedar which will be ready for Tiki Kon this Saturday.

Nice piece Cy, love the floats.

What a piece of work!
That's a project on to it's self.

Super cool, cy. Also that spalted piece of sweetgum, wow!!

Clean Cy
Very clean

Wow...that last piece is gorgeous. Love to see it hanging in the new owner's digs.

Thanks for the positive comments, I was not sure how that one would be received. I used this week off to spend some time on tiki.
It's back to this purple heart piece named "Webster". So hard and heavy and a real detriment to the sharpness of your tools. Avoid at all costs, but damn it's purple!

A start on a cool shaped log of cedar.

Getting close to finish on these planks of glued and screwed mahogany.

Almost six foot tall.

Killer

Dig da purple color

Thanks Jon, once it is done just a few clear coats to preserve the beautiful color. With Tiki Oasis right around the corner I wanted to complete a few more floats as they have helped with my traveling expense.


This four foot high cedar log was started a few months ago right where it fell in my front yard. I just scratched a center line down the middle, started on the top, moved to the bottom, then followed the wrong scratch in the middle. It looked so bad that I cut the whole mistake out, here it is with the first coat of paint. They can't all be zingers.

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Another epic Oasis run
Great to see you cuz
Thanks for the rum
Cheers

Always a pleasure my friend! I saw many great people from TC there including danlovestiki, Ano, MadDog, FTLOT, Skoo, Wildsville Man, Bosko, Crazy Al, Buzzy, LLT, Doug Horne...... Can't wait to do it again!

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A slight update because carving takes so long.
"Link" is about tiki past and present.

I started this piece of cedar before Oasis.

The branch that it is from came crashing down on my deck a few years ago.

I hope to sell him and recoup some of my losses.

A light will be added inside, behind the fish.

Way kool bruddah

Thanks H10! I put a few coats of red, black, and light brown on "Chip."
I modeled him after an earlier edition.

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Both of them are beautiful, nice design and color.

Lotsa thumbs up

Fantastic Cy!

Those hollowed out areas ROCK!!!

Those look great Cy!!!

Looks great! Any chance you can ship him?

Thanks for the comments hil, H10, Lori, MDM,( I had many hours carving out that middle section Mike, first with a chainsaw, than a dye grinder with a Kutzal burring tool), El Jefe! Jeff I sent you a PM, he would ship fine I think.

Awesome work as usual Cy!
Man I feel you pain on hollowing out those pieces. That takes a tremendous amount of work!

I could use some help stowing away some Tikis ,
if you got nothing to do.

I'll be right over Will. Hope all of you weather this storm with as little damage as possible!