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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
|  Posted: 2003-04-01 9:52 pm Permalink
We got face....   We got choppers..... 
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Lake Surfer
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Joined: Oct 21, 2002
Posts: 3308
From: Milwaukee, WI
| Posted: 2003-04-01 10:08 pm Permalink
Beautiful! Beautiful!
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2003-04-03 3:10 pm Permalink
Cutting in the chest and arms. Getting the chest contours right is pretty hard on a Marquesan this size...the geometric features should sort of "flow" into the more organic ones. I use a single cardboard template for each feature so it will be the same on both sides. The red marks on the straight chisel shown are for different plunge depths. This is a chisel I use all the time that I have ground down the first 1 1/2 inches of the tip on a bench grinder to about 1/16th of an inch thin, tapered like a duckbill, which allows me to cut guide grooves quite deep without cracking the wood. It makes the work go faster because you usually don't have to plunge grooves twice. The ear protectors keep my rather Roger-Miller-like rock band induced tinnitus from getting worse from all that hammering. One may also note that I changed the design a bit to better porportion the arms.  
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Sabu The Coconut Boy
Grand Member (8 years) 
Joined: Aug 20, 2002
Posts: 2784
From: Carson, California
| Posted: 2003-04-03 3:50 pm Permalink
Base,
He's looking real nice. How are you going to bear to sell him?
Sabu
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2003-04-03 7:16 pm Permalink
This one won't be cheap....It's a pretty big tiki at 7 feet 2 inches high.. Probably in the $700 range. Diameter also plays into that. My wife said "If it doesn't sell do you think we might be able to keep it?"
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Sabu The Coconut Boy
Grand Member (8 years)
Joined: Aug 20, 2002
Posts: 2784
From: Carson, California
| Posted: 2003-04-04 11:15 am Permalink
Base,
I suggest the following method for selling him at the Hukilau:
Sabu
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2003-04-04 12:24 pm Permalink
The best way to sell anything...down through all the ages of history.
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Jungle Trader
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Joined: Jan 04, 2003
Posts: 3691
From: Trader's Jungle Outpost, Turlock, Ca.
| Posted: 2003-04-04 4:28 pm Permalink
uh-huh, I gotta figure a way to get one of those on my website, hmmm.
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2003-04-07 02:16 am Permalink
Well, folks...here is the basic tiki, minus base decorations and general neatening and cleaning up. It's one hell of a big Marquesan, my first 7-foot pole. Certified pure, 100% chainsaw free.    
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Jungle Trader
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Joined: Jan 04, 2003
Posts: 3691
From: Trader's Jungle Outpost, Turlock, Ca.
| Posted: 2003-04-07 07:58 am Permalink
Very very excellent BK. Can't wait to see it finished. Looks authentic already. 2000 or 3000 clams?
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2003-04-07 10:07 am Permalink
I wish! Truthfully, I never know what to ask for anything. If I charged by hourly labor, stuff would be sky high, and I don't want to alienate the average Joe, so that's out. I also noticed that the "100.00-a-foot" for wide diameters seems to be a standard among chainsaw carvers(a lot of the guys do the black bears up here), but done the old way one can hardly get ahead at that rate. So again, I dunno.
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tikifille
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 18, 2002
Posts: 123 | Posted: 2003-04-07 6:24 pm Permalink
That is gorgeous! You really did a great job. Aaaah the elitism of the chainsaw free world. How are you moving this thing around? My local football team shuns me now. (I think the 7' logs ruined their football careers.) Damn, where to find extremely strong men who enjoy lifting heavy objects?
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MaD-TiKi
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Aug 31, 2002
Posts: 50
From: TiKi HeLL
| Posted: 2003-04-07 8:31 pm Permalink
BK, you out do yourself every time you pick up your carving tools. I'm still working on my first caving, yes it's part chainsaw. How do you guys get the palm trees to be so smooth? That's the biggest problem I'm having, any help would be great. BK, keep up the great work. I can't wait to see them at the Hukilau.
MaD-TiKi 
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SugarCaddyDaddy
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 03, 2002
Posts: 1500
From: Huntington Beach, California
| Posted: 2003-04-07 11:42 pm Permalink
Holy Moly BK!
What's that thing going to cost me to ship to Huntington Beach, California? 
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GECKO
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Joined: Jun 01, 2002
Posts: 1049
From: South Sea Arts Honolulu
| Posted: 2003-04-08 01:18 am Permalink
dats cherry BK! Heres a little more eye candy for you tiki lovers.
here is a yipwan panel i made a few days ago.
here is Tangaroa of the Cook islands. God of fertility, ocean and fisherman. He is 3 ft. tall. still in da making, still gotta put on a finish, rope around his arms, etc.
it'll look mo'betta wen it's done.
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