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kingstiedye
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Joined: Oct 05, 2005
Posts: 1229
From: sackatomato
|  Posted: 2006-07-14 10:15 am Permalink
great stuff, haikai! i gotta get one of those pendants. let me know. bullet
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tiki beat by marcus thorn
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Joined: Jun 01, 2005
Posts: 696
From: A Little Island called Australia
| Posted: 2006-07-14 6:05 pm Permalink
Your stuff keeps getting better and better - keep up the good work
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haikai
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Joined: Nov 09, 2005
Posts: 233
From: Regensburg / Bavaria / Germany
| Posted: 2006-07-17 08:31 am Permalink
Thank you very much kingstiedye!
I hope you are fine and the little framed shrunken head too.
I´m happy that you like the pendants.
Look only on my homepage and let me know which one you prefer.
Or look to the TC marketplace Here where I sell some necklaces, too. greetings!
Hey marcus, thanks! 
I don´t know if you remember! I have ask you in your own post, what kind of grey stuff you use for the black grounding! I think it´s ash! Is it right?
2 month ago I carved a birthday Tiki mask for my brother. It was my first try to carve only with chisels, but sadly I used the wrong wood. Spruce wood is not good for carving pattern.
For the finish I rubed it with charcoal and I think it looked realy cool.
The downs has been very dark, but after that if I collored the mask with rosewood glaze the shading was gone.
I think the color was too dark! Have you any tip for me to do this better? Mahalo, Kai
Here are some pics of the mask:
 
 
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haikai
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Joined: Nov 09, 2005
Posts: 233
From: Regensburg / Bavaria / Germany
| Posted: 2006-07-20 02:38 am Permalink
Aloha everyone,
in the last few days I tried out to carve new finer forms and so I started to create a Tiki god with a bloom crown. I use to apply some marquesan parts.
I´m not sure, but I think the 3.28 foot log is from cottonwood.
It´s very soft and easy to carve.
For the first, I finished with the basic form of the crown, the eyes and the nose.
Sadly, I have done a little disfigurement, because I think the eyes could be bigger. There is a little bit to much space between eyes and nose.
Whatever, now I will go outside and create the mouth in proper style.
After carving the Tiki I consider to dye it with some different natural colors.
So, see you later on TC, if I have some new pictures for you.
Mahalo, Kai
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McTiki
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Joined: Aug 22, 2004
Posts: 1933
From: Sunny Florida
| Posted: 2006-07-20 04:01 am Permalink
Wow! That's gonna rock! Nice carve.
Mahalo
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Paipo
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Joined: Jun 22, 2006
Posts: 1886
From: Aotearoa / NZ
| Posted: 2006-07-20 04:08 am Permalink
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Do you work as a monumental mason? It looks like a tombstone factory behind that log....
Nice tiki too, I really like the boldness of the eyes and crown.
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2006-07-21 10:41 am Permalink
Man, you do good work. Keeps getting better and better.. I've always liked the classic, vintage feel of your creations. Looks like mid-century stuff.
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haikai
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Joined: Nov 09, 2005
Posts: 233
From: Regensburg / Bavaria / Germany
| Posted: 2006-07-25 04:05 am Permalink
Thanks McTiki! I have seen your back yard with the wild Tikis.
Great work and I also realy like the docoration with the coconuts.
Looks pretty cool!
Hey Paipo, sorry for the late response and thanks for your entry.
No, I´m not a monumental mason! But you are right, in the neighborhood is a tombstone factory and they lair their stones in our yard. The guys are very nice and help me always with their forklift.
Befor I try to create Tikis from stone, I exercise me more in carving wood.
It´s not so hard and heavy. So, respect for your beautiful and clean work!
Aloha BK, thank you for the great accolade. I always follow your posts on TC and admire your awesome work. Also, thanks for gives me many inspiration and the incentive to try out more.
So, now I have a few new pictures of the bloom crown Tiki for you.
I created the mouth and back of the figure and finshed the carving.
I try to carve some pattern and frets to give the Tiki some more interesting structures.
Now, I think about the colors. How should I do that? I want to use tree colors. (black, white and red)
I want to squelched some natural materials like ash, chalk and clay and try to mix them with oil.
O.K. befor I color the Tiki I must do some tests. I check it out and than I will post more pictures.
Here are the last pics of the bloom crown god:
 
 
 
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Paipo
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Joined: Jun 22, 2006
Posts: 1886
From: Aotearoa / NZ
| Posted: 2006-07-25 04:40 am Permalink
Yeah, all that granite...it can only mean one thing! I used to deal with my local mason regularly to get pieces etched and sandblasted until I got my own air compressor set up.
Nice update on your latest guy - I think some contrasting colours will work well with the range of techniques you've used on him. BK is right - these have a great retro vibe to them. Drop me a PM whenever you're ready to start stone carving!
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GMAN
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Joined: Jul 14, 2005
Posts: 2994
From: My Island
| Posted: 2006-07-25 04:53 am Permalink
Wow! That is fantastic! The eyes are great (as are the curls, head, base, mouth, nose, and the rest of it). If I send you some stamps will you send this one to me in Florida?
-Gman
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haikai
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Joined: Nov 09, 2005
Posts: 233
From: Regensburg / Bavaria / Germany
| Posted: 2006-07-25 08:54 am Permalink
Thanks Paipo! It´s a great deal with your local mason.
I think an own air compressor set up sould be very expensive, or?
If I´ll have the heart to carve anytime in stone, so I´ll let you know.
I think that´s so hard to do.
Hey GMAN, thanks for your words. I have seen the pictures from your accident at your TC post.
Shit, the cicatrice looks like you must be killed. Crazy GMAN! 
I hope you feel now better! I have also seen your last maori pendant.
It´s a wonderful piece of work! Great, keep up the beautiful work!
In terms of the Tiki! Are you sure, you have the heart to own this guy?
He´s a real bavarian Tiki god with amazing vires.
He is very, very dangerous! After I´ll finished the Tiki I´ll part with him.
O.K. Here are my first color tests! I have squelched chalk to get white powder, red-brick to get red (orange) powder and in the end charcoal for the black powder.
 
 
Than I separately mixed the powders with a little bit of oil and stirred them accurately. I painted all three colours on a pice of wood of the same log.
The red and black color worked very well, but when you mix chalk with oil it will get dirty grey.
So, I mixed the chalk powder with water. Great, you get a realy white color but it´s difficult to coat
over the oil colores. When I´ll color the Tiki, I must omit the white sites.
 
After all, I need something to fix the colores, because they aspirate not complete into the wood.
But what? So, I´ll search something! Mahalo, Kai
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Howland
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Joined: Jan 30, 2006
Posts: 749
From: Folly Beach, SC--'Follynesia'
| Posted: 2006-07-25 11:33 am Permalink
Truly amazing stuff here, Haikai. You can go from one extreme to the other-from the tiniest to the tallset. Good luck with your coloring project, can't wait to see how it turns out---keep posting--I'll keep looking!
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Tiki Duddy
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Joined: Jun 04, 2006
Posts: 759
From: Manitoba, Canada
| Posted: 2006-07-25 8:18 pm Permalink
good GOOD work man. i really like the eyes and teeth. i only hope to become that good in the future. keep em comming
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rodeotiki
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Joined: Jan 21, 2004
Posts: 1513
From: calgary
| Posted: 2006-07-25 9:42 pm Permalink
Man you keep raising the bar. Looks fantastic!!!
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Benzart
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Joined: Jan 09, 2004
Posts: 10306
From: Port Saint Lucie, Florida
| Posted: 2006-07-26 05:33 am Permalink
Haikai, I Really Love this last carving with the Spiral inspired headdress. the whole tiki is very nice but that headdress really sets it off. Thanks too for your Color lesson, I am really impressed with your technique and may try the red on my next MAori piece.
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