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finkdaddy
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From: Wisconsin
|  Posted: 2007-10-07 7:16 pm Permalink
Thanks again guys!
I've been putting some final touches on my girl in between Packer plays. The chord you see was only to hang her while she dried. She'll have a nicer one tomorrow.
The toggle will be made from bone skulls to match her accessories.
This has been a blast to carve and I can't wait to start the next.
She's almost complete!
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T_birdman
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From: San Gabriel Valley-SoCal
| Posted: 2007-10-07 7:55 pm Permalink
That is sweet! The skulls put an excellent touch to her, not that she wasn't already a hip shakin' gal! Fine job bro, Go Packers!
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hewey
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From: Sydney, Australia
| Posted: 2007-10-07 8:50 pm Permalink
Awesome mate! So who's the lucky purchaser?
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Moki
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From: San Diego
| Posted: 2007-10-07 8:55 pm Permalink
She is sooooo cool!! You're going a great job. Can't wait to see what's next.
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kustomtiki
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From: La Mesa
| Posted: 2007-10-07 10:48 pm Permalink
Finkdaddy, that's just sick.kool work indeed!.
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Clarita
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From: BA Arg
| Posted: 2007-10-08 06:49 am Permalink
I can't wait for the you to start the next too!!This one turned out fantastic!I really really like her!!Great design,beautiful materials,excellently made! Congrats!!
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Robin
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From: where the road and the sky collide
| Posted: 2007-10-08 8:32 pm Permalink
This is some really nice work. Style, innovation and excellent craftsmanship...very very nice. I love the little skulls.
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GMAN
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From: My Island
| Posted: 2007-10-10 2:29 pm Permalink
Yo Finky! I don't know how I missed this little girl? It looks like it was a bugger to do? What put you onto this idea? I bet this took a lot of patience? Very clean job.
-G
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finkdaddy
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From: Wisconsin
| Posted: 2007-10-10 6:26 pm Permalink
Hey everyone, I finally finished the chord on this gal tonight. Thanks for all the kind words along the way. 
Gman! No one really put me up to it. I got the idea on a night when my wahine and I were out celebrating her birthday with some of her family at an amazingly horrible club in Milwaukee called Victors (anybody from the area would know what I'm talking about). A couple of hours earlier I had a conversation with Lake Surfer about the carving business, so I was sitting at the table in the club, turning over a lot of ideas in my head while the DJ was playing terrible dance music at dangerously high volume. Then in one magic moment, after approximately my 7th beer, I saw my wife's purse that she had left on the table. It was like all the loud music, all the choking smoke, all the 40 somethings trying to look like 20 somethings, and all the ridiculous dancing just disappeared. My world instantly became nothing except for the cartoonish drawing of a hula girl on the front of my wife's purse. I spent the whole rest of the evening trying to piece together in my head what a 2 dimensional cartoon drawing would look like in 3 dimensional wood. I started carving it the very next morning.
Here she is:
I have to replace my bandsaw blade this weekend, and then it's on to the next!
Thanks everyone! 
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congatiki
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From: wisconsin northwoods
| Posted: 2007-10-10 6:43 pm Permalink
You're nuts Finkdaddy. That is one great piece of work. Nice. Gotta go drink some more.
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Sebastian Urresti
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From: Argentina
| Posted: 2007-10-10 8:00 pm Permalink
Dear Finkdaddy,
Amazing Hula dancer and the toggle just fits in. Congratulations, you must be happy to get movement and grace out of a rigid medium as wood.
Thanks for the images.
Hugs,
Sebas
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JenTiki
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From: An island in the bay
| Posted: 2007-10-10 11:22 pm Permalink
Wow!  That's one beautiful wahine you've carved, Finkdaddy! This is an amazing piece of workmanship like nothing I've ever seen! Congratulations! I feel honored to own a couple of your pieces and continue to enjoy watching what you come up with next!
Cheers!
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benella
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From: Meudon, France
| Posted: 2007-10-11 12:49 am Permalink
Amazing.
Bravo,
Ben
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hewey
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From: Sydney, Australia
| Posted: 2007-10-11 04:18 am Permalink
Curves a plenty there mate, she got style  The gloss finish completes it nicely too. Come on, wheres the next one already!
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Benzart
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| Posted: 2007-10-14 07:04 am Permalink
Finky, You have done such an Incredible job on this Hula dancer! I can't believe the Jump in skill level you have taken. You have earned Much respect, be proud!
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