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Keylo
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Aug 09, 2011
Posts: 125
From: Daytuna Beach
|  Posted: 2011-10-22 8:01 pm Permalink
Nixxon, thanks for the kind words. As far as posting, it is just a matter of time
for me.
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Keylo
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Aug 09, 2011
Posts: 125
From: Daytuna Beach
| Posted: 2011-10-23 2:05 pm Permalink
I started carving a crown on this log and had started cutting the wrong line of which there was no recovery.
So, I flipped it upside down, decided I could make feet out of my blunder and you see the rest
of the story.
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NIxxon
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Dec 22, 2010
Posts: 496 | Posted: 2011-10-23 2:11 pm Permalink
wow, very nice recovery. I really like the color on that piece.
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Keylo
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Aug 09, 2011
Posts: 125
From: Daytuna Beach
| Posted: 2011-10-23 2:21 pm Permalink
A fellow TC'er wanted a tiki made like the famous one of the Kona Kai Bar & Restaurant.
Heres the matchbook and my shot at the Kona Kai. I took my measurements off the menu
because it had the full figure, but the figures are a little different, so my tikis head
is a little more elongated than the one on the matchbook.
 
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Keylo
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Aug 09, 2011
Posts: 125
From: Daytuna Beach
| Posted: 2011-10-23 2:34 pm Permalink
Most people don't think of tiki's when they think of Chik-Fil-A. But I got a call
to bring over some tikis to mix it up with the Chicken,..ah I mean Cow. It was for
thier Hawaiian nite and I only had a few tikis on me so this guy made it over there
with his Uke and grass skirt in his birthday suit without proper staining. Does this
bring another meaning to Holy Cow?
Heres King Uke-A-Hana properly stianed.
Thanks for droppin In,
Mahalo,
Keylo
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AlohaStation
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 27, 2004
Posts: 2367
From: So FL
| Posted: 2011-10-23 2:46 pm Permalink
You've been sand-baggin us. Great stuff!
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MadDogMike
Grand Member (8 years) 
Joined: Mar 30, 2008
Posts: 8500
From: The Anvil of the Sun
| Posted: 2011-10-23 3:58 pm Permalink
Cool grass skirt and great Marquesan inspired tiki too. Way to turn an epic fail into an epic success!
I can see the graphic art background kicking in with the borders around the pics, makes them look more professional somehow. Hmmm... I may have to steal that trick - sometimes my work needs all the help it can get 
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laojia
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Feb 04, 2009
Posts: 948
From: Metz Lorraine France
| Posted: 2011-10-24 01:19 am Permalink
Very nice stuff!
Congrats! And keep posting!
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Creative Chimp
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jul 31, 2008
Posts: 297 | Posted: 2011-10-24 05:29 am Permalink
holy cow ......your stuff is great and nice finish on the dry logo,,,,,got a good style
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Keylo
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Aug 09, 2011
Posts: 125
From: Daytuna Beach
| Posted: 2011-10-24 06:36 am Permalink
Nixxon, thanks man. I think at times a lot of my carving up to this point
has been learning how to hide my mistakes. That one (the "Pray Hard" Marq) worked out.
Aloha Station, thanks a heap for the comp. I'm trying to knock the sand off and be more social,
but really, just an out of work designer. So I really haven't had much time to post in the past,
Carving was my release from micro managing microscopic pixels in the world of Graphic Artica.
With carving I hack big chucks and let the pieces fall where they may.
Mad Dog, thanks man, yeah the design disease I have you don't want. Unless you don't like to sleep.
Laojia, Merci beaucoup for the comps and droppin in from such a long distance.
Creative Chimp, thanks fellow pixel monky, the logo was a fun retro project
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Keylo
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Aug 09, 2011
Posts: 125
From: Daytuna Beach
| Posted: 2011-10-24 2:24 pm Permalink
finished the color on the tiki I torched a couple days back. I am now calling it "Ben Chard"
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amate
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Oct 03, 2009
Posts: 983 | Posted: 2011-10-25 09:14 am Permalink
Outstanding work Keylo! Hope to see more.
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Keylo
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Aug 09, 2011
Posts: 125
From: Daytuna Beach
| Posted: 2011-10-25 09:30 am Permalink
Amate, thanks man, funny i was just over on your thread drooling at all that unreal stuff you got goin
on. Its incredible. Thanks for droppin in!
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Keylo
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Aug 09, 2011
Posts: 125
From: Daytuna Beach
| Posted: 2011-11-04 10:24 am Permalink
Went to the saw horse with a round log and decided I wanted to
try something different and more square. Took the grinder and made
a rod log into a square one . Changed the design and hacked out this Block Head.
Mahalo for those traveling this way!
Keylo
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castaway17
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Sep 07, 2010
Posts: 23 | Posted: 2011-11-04 10:51 am Permalink
Nice tweak to a classic design -- thumbs up!
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