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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
|  Posted: 2003-01-26 10:38 am Permalink
I have toyed with the idea of building travel bar sized portable miniature tiki bars that maybe "pop up" into a diorama when you open them (with a place to put four full-sized bottles and fou mugs, of course).
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GECKO
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Joined: Jun 01, 2002
Posts: 1049
From: South Sea Arts Honolulu
| Posted: 2003-01-26 6:26 pm Permalink
here's a 3 1/2 foot New Guinea wall panel with a touch of my imagination.
this is the part i wen made up.
this is a traditional style Hawaiian menehuni mask.
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2003-01-26 8:25 pm Permalink
Those are cooool...Like the paint on the NG mask especially.
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GECKO
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Joined: Jun 01, 2002
Posts: 1049
From: South Sea Arts Honolulu
| Posted: 2003-01-26 8:47 pm Permalink
howzit BK,
I like painting some of the tiki's and NG stuff because it gives age to da look if you use a certain technique(sp?)
Mr. Schmaltz at OA told me he liked da way I aged one of my mask so I kept doing it.
I'll probably bring dat piece to Florida fo sale.
I jus wen get dat wood on saturday. I been waiting for a while on certain woods. I haven't had any wood because of da strike a few months ago on da cargo ships.
I missed out on a lot of wall panel buisness dat customers and friends wanted done! SORRY!!
I might jus have to move back to da mainland if dat happens again.
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2003-01-26 9:08 pm Permalink
I just got a small supply of just beautiful OLD GROWTH (200+years old!) black walnut slices (1x and 2x slices are all I can get so far). If you want I'll bring you a couple of pieces down to Hukilau. Making some weapons out of it, and that walnut is so dark and richly grained they look like pre-contact museum pieces! It's coming off of a previously untouched mountain ridge in Franklin, North Carolina. Unfortunately, a bunch of the timberframers are buying up the big stuff and using it for (get this) structural tenons, of which walnut ones hold joists like iron. What a waste. Some of the trunks are 4 feet wide.
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GECKO
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Joined: Jun 01, 2002
Posts: 1049
From: South Sea Arts Honolulu
| Posted: 2003-01-27 11:17 am Permalink
eh BK,
I can use sum depending on how hard da wood is. I tink I might bring some 2 ft coconut stumps with me to florida to trade with or sell for da carvers who would like to carve a trunk frum da islands. I have a friend moving ova by da pan handle on Florida and is going to ship sum of my stuff with his furniture. So I'll throw sum blank coconut trunks in.
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2003-01-27 6:51 pm Permalink
I'll take a couple. I could even use 3 or 4 foot if you got'em. Black walnut is a very hard wood but very carveable and once it's carved barring all extremes that object will be around for centuries. I'll trade you or I'll just buy a couple!
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2003-01-28 10:08 pm Permalink
Finishing a Cook Islands style Akatara tomorrow (long serrated club) in multicolored old growth walnut...I'll post pics.
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hula hula
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Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 407
From: da 9th island/ vegas
| Posted: 2003-01-30 12:27 pm Permalink
not as cool as your guys, but I think im coming along slowly.
Here's my finished sign. Just a practice piece, as soon as I name my bar i'll make one for it too.
close up
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Tiki Diablo
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Joined: Jun 24, 2002
Posts: 1890
From: socal
| Posted: 2003-01-30 9:02 pm Permalink
Looks cool HH. Keep on carving.
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GECKO
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Joined: Jun 01, 2002
Posts: 1049
From: South Sea Arts Honolulu
| Posted: 2003-01-30 9:51 pm Permalink
eh Hula, Good job cuz!
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tikifreak
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Joined: Jan 15, 2003
Posts: 253
From: Jacksonville Beach FL
| Posted: 2003-01-30 10:47 pm Permalink
[ This Message was edited by: tikifreak on 2004-12-20 12:15 ]
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2003-01-31 02:16 am Permalink
Just found a reliable source for high quality, highly verrugated abalone in whole shells....beautiful, jewelry quality stuff....8.00 a shell! I can get my Maori mack on again and do it in style!
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2003-01-31 02:21 am Permalink
P.S. Nice finish, Hula!
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Jungle Trader
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Joined: Jan 04, 2003
Posts: 3691
From: Trader's Jungle Outpost, Turlock, Ca.
| Posted: 2003-01-31 09:17 am Permalink
Hula, verrry nice, yah! The richness of the wood really sets it off.
I've got another brilliant Jungle Trader idea; "tiki business card holders". I'm doing a local home and garden show and I need one yesterday. If I can't find one I'll try making it myself. Obviously it should not be much bigger then a business card or about the size of the average hand. Oh, how about a business card holder shaped like a hand. "The light bulb above my head is on". <<<---Famous quote by JT.
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