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McTiki
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Joined: Aug 22, 2004
Posts: 1939
From: Sunny Florida
|  Posted: 2013-02-16 3:46 pm Permalink
Happy Happy! Much wonderful work here.
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laojia
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From: Metz Lorraine France
| Posted: 2013-02-25 12:03 am Permalink
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Awesome Marq!!! Yeah!!!
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RIOTURBAN
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Joined: Jul 03, 2012
Posts: 46
From: Germany
| Posted: 2013-02-26 3:14 pm Permalink
Thank you very much to all of you!!!
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Watango productions
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Joined: Mar 20, 2008
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From: Melb,Australia.
| Posted: 2013-02-26 6:01 pm Permalink
Nice work on the Marq.
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RIOTURBAN
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Joined: Jul 03, 2012
Posts: 46
From: Germany
| Posted: 2013-03-19 03:41 am Permalink
hi folks,
if some one is interested, here`s a little article about me and my carvings.
http://covanaut.com/art-fashion-tiki-talk
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For the Love of Tiki
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Joined: Feb 19, 2013
Posts: 50
From: San Diego, CA
| Posted: 2013-03-19 08:03 am Permalink
I enjoyed reading the article. The writer asked good interview questions about the creative process. Might be par for the course - being an "Art & Fashion" magazine.... but is definitely a plus when the interviewer has an appreciation & understands a head of time what they are writing about and then encourages the best responses from who they are interviewing.
Must be kind of cool having your tikis in a public venue for people to see.
... and I had no idea how large that Marq really was - until seeing that photo!
Thanks for sharing the article - good stuff 
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cy
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Joined: Mar 10, 2011
Posts: 507
From: Gresham, Oregon
| Posted: 2013-03-19 08:57 am Permalink
Nice article RIOTURBAN, you're now famous!
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Benzart
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Joined: Jan 09, 2004
Posts: 10306
From: Port Saint Lucie, Florida
| Posted: 2013-03-24 10:58 am Permalink
Great article, it's Always nice to get that kind of recognition,
Excellent work at the top of the page too!
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Takatuka
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Joined: May 25, 2013
Posts: 1 | Posted: Today; 02:16 am Permalink
@Rioturban:
The big, great, beautiful tiki you have carved is made out of spruce, right?
I saw in the video on youtube that you got the log from a sawmill.
I suggest the wood, to that point of time, was fresh/wet? Wasn't it?
I have now a question on finishing the tiki.
If you have carved it out of the fresh log, you have to sand it.
How you do that?
Do you wait until the upper layer is dried?
Was the log dry from the first step on?
Wet wood is ugly to sand...
My tries every time end up in a disaster.
Thank you very much!
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RIOTURBAN
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Joined: Jul 03, 2012
Posts: 46
From: Germany
| Posted: Today; 11:21 am Permalink
Hi Takatuka,
you are right its spruce.
i can remember the wood was wet.especially when you make deep cuts.the upper layers get dry pretty fast, after a few days the wood starts to get cracks all over.
for the rough sanding work i use an angle grinder with a flap disk.even so you can sometimes see the water coming out of the wood it works pretty good.when you sand it make sure your disk sands not along the fibers but in an 90°angle,that destroys the fibre and so it works better( hope you know what i mean)learning by doing!
rough sanding is always a messy work but i like it!
for a smooth surface i then varnish it,sand it by hand to get rid of all the little dust particles and little wood fibers in the varnish.then i varnish it again and boing! you have a nice surface!
best wishes!
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