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Babalu
Grand Member (5 years) 
Joined: Nov 19, 2006
Posts: 2498
From: Lemon Grove
|  Posted: 2008-03-18 06:04 am Permalink
Whoa Seeks! This baby is one major player...Damn fine work sir!
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AlohaStation
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 27, 2004
Posts: 2003
From: So FL
| Posted: 2008-03-18 06:06 am Permalink
Excellent!! enough said.
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tok-tok
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Oct 17, 2007
Posts: 148
From: somewhere in Germany
| Posted: 2008-03-18 06:16 am Permalink
No way! I can´t believe it. How did you do this, I mean, how did you do this?
I only can assent to what paipo said. And everyone else. Absolutly amazing details. And symmetry. And actually all...
Thanks for sharing.
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FreddieBallsomic
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Aug 08, 2005
Posts: 626 | Posted: 2008-03-18 07:30 am Permalink
Wow! That guy turned out Amazing... I love the name. If he was smaller and made of steel, he could be one helluva meat tenderizer.. You should get that registered. Tikiphiles would go nuts..
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Flat Black
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Joined: Feb 14, 2008
Posts: 116
From: Chicagoland
| Posted: 2008-03-18 09:15 am Permalink
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On 2008-03-18 06:06, AlohaStation wrote:
Excellent!!
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QFT.
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seeksurf
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 27, 2007
Posts: 2144
From: Buckley, WA
| Posted: 2008-03-18 11:02 am Permalink
Thanks guys i really appreciate the complements.
It means allot to me.
People at work don't get it they think i should be
carving a bear?
benella - I spent about 5 days just looking back and
forth on the feet pic's Thanks
Paipo - Thanks i really appreciate your honesty about
the limbs and body. I see it big time.
"Something tells me you must've been making other cool
stuff before you channeled your energy into these guys?"
You are not the first to suggest or hint that I'm
hiding some previous talent. The progress you see
in the picture you posted that's it. That's all the
art work or carvings i have done in the last 24
years.
hewey - thanks dude took me crazy amount of time.
haikai - thanks much.
harro - almost perfection I see allot of imperfection
gman - I'm scared to death to stain him! I will PM you will talk
when he is dry.
tikifreak - thanks much Id love to parade him at your
pad.
congatiki - thanks for the stunner.
MooneyTiki - thanks for the sacret resting place in the hills of Hawaii.
Robin - Ya the staring i could have had a college degree
by now with all the staring i did.
Babalu - thanks for the complement.
AlohaStation - you the man thanks
tok-tok - I took my time and had a great piece of wood
to work with and luck.
FeddieBallsomic - Thanks the name took awhile to hit me
but it works.
Flat Black - thanks.
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Lake Surfer
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Joined: Oct 21, 2002
Posts: 3308
From: Milwaukee, WI
| Posted: 2008-03-18 11:32 am Permalink
Seek, man... its all been said already... but that is friggen tight.
Everything is precise and cut just right. I can tell you are a perfectionist.
Don't stress about the stain. Go with what your gut tells you. I know you have a ton of work invested in this, but you learned on your last one.
Stain this sucker up!
I say go for a Marquesan next too... you've got Kona Style Hawaiian down to a science.
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Paipo
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Joined: Jun 22, 2006
Posts: 1886
From: Aotearoa / NZ
| Posted: 2008-03-18 12:06 pm Permalink
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On 2008-03-18 11:02, seeksurf wrote:
Thanks guys i really appreciate the complements.
It means allot to me.
Paipo - Thanks i really appreciate your honesty about
the limbs and body. I see it big time.
"Something tells me you must've been making other cool
stuff before you channeled your energy into these guys?"
You are not the first to suggest or hint that I'm
hiding some previous talent. The progress you see
in the picture you posted that's it. That's all the
art work or carvings i have done in the last 24
years.
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Wow...absolutely amazing. Your first pieces look like a lot of first tikis I've seen here, but you seem to have squeezed about 3 years worth of improvement into the next 3. How cool for you that you've found your calling (and us, cause we get to watch), and that you decided to carve tikis and not bears! So what are the next 3 gonna look like?!
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surfintiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 30, 2004
Posts: 1561
From: S. Chatham, MA
| Posted: 2008-03-18 12:44 pm Permalink
Smokin! Really, really, really solid there seekswell. The face is chiseled perfect. Is he getting a coat of any sort?
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seeksurf
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 27, 2007
Posts: 2144
From: Buckley, WA
| Posted: 2008-03-18 12:45 pm Permalink
Paipo - The next one is going to be a Lono. Waffle Head was
supposed to be a lono, but i made the body to large and ran
out of room up top.
As far as the ones after that not sure? My tikis are always
changing as i move along in them. As far as a Marquesan someday
i hope to give it a try. I'm really stuck on the Hawaiians right now.
My uncle was raving about NZ he said it was prettier than the
Pacific North West on a sunny day.
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Bowana
Grand Member (4 years) 
Joined: Nov 10, 2006
Posts: 1117
From: La Mesa, CA
| Posted: 2008-03-18 12:51 pm Permalink
Hey Seek, I see you've put your robotic Tiki carving skills to work on Waffle Head. Symmetry is a very difficult thing, and you have done a great job with it. I agree with the others that it could be from the Bishop Museum.
Leggo my Eggo!
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seeksurf
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 27, 2007
Posts: 2144
From: Buckley, WA
| Posted: 2008-03-18 12:55 pm Permalink
surfintiki - Good to hear from you. Thanks, I'm scared to death
of the stain process after Thin Man. Not sure on the stain
or top coat yet. Might go safe with something i have done or the
#225.
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crazy al
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 25, 2002
Posts: 1782
From: CA
| Posted: 2008-03-18 12:55 pm Permalink
Wow...!nice work found here!!
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JohnnyP
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 23, 2005
Posts: 1689
From: Attica, MI
| Posted: 2008-03-18 1:02 pm Permalink
Perfection incarnate!
You spent a lot of time on this and it shows.
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seeksurf
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 27, 2007
Posts: 2144
From: Buckley, WA
| Posted: 2008-03-18 7:16 pm Permalink
Lake - Thanks, He will be drying out for some time.
I hear you thanks for the input.
Bowana - thanks for the waffles that are caffeinated and its
about time on the caffeine?
crazy al - is that the crazy al that i think it is? if
so, WOW.
JohnnyP - "incarnate" I had to look it up I like thank you JohnnyP.
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