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Basement Kahuna -New Maori Bone Pendant 3/04 |
Queen Kamehameha
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Joined: Oct 21, 2003
Posts: 1370
From: So Cal
|  Posted: 2006-11-11 11:30 pm Permalink
As always, wonderful stuff, Dave......
Amy
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Bete
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Joined: Jan 01, 2006
Posts: 490 | Posted: 2006-11-13 4:05 pm Permalink
Very cool piece.
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Lake Surfer
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Joined: Oct 21, 2002
Posts: 3311
From: Milwaukee, WI
| Posted: 2006-11-14 01:27 am Permalink
Dave... great to see you back to such cool stuff again. And while the time off for you was filled with hardship, it has made you more passionate about your craft and that really shows. Your work blew doors off in the old TC days... these days... out of this world. A style so refined.... you are channeling ancients.
Now... if we could just get our beloved Gecko back to show us a thing or two.... 
Keep up the killer work man.
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2006-11-16 08:43 am Permalink
Thanks, Dave. You were there from the old carving post days, too, doing great stuff. Shootz. Here's the easy mask I produced for Marketplace. This one's not typical for me, heavier on the power tools, but simple and nice. 
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Bete
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Joined: Jan 01, 2006
Posts: 490 | Posted: 2006-11-17 07:11 am Permalink
Cool masks!
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GROG
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Joined: Jun 21, 2006
Posts: 6195
From: Tujunga
| Posted: 2006-11-17 07:55 am Permalink
Hey BK, do you have another job, or do you carve full-time?
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2006-11-18 5:30 pm Permalink
Yep...full time tiki carver now. I guess I'm in it for keeps!
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2006-11-18 5:32 pm Permalink
As full time as a chaotic guy like me can be, that is!
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Tamapoutini
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Joined: Aug 30, 2006
Posts: 1529
From: Aotearoa (New Zealand)
| Posted: 2006-11-23 12:48 pm Permalink
Quote:
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On 2006-11-18 17:30, Basement Kahuna wrote:
Yep...full time tiki carver now. I guess I'm in it for keeps!
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Good on you mate. You can be proud to have achieved that; I know its not the 'safest' way to earn your crust. Hope all goes well & prosperous!
I saw an interview with a young business entrepreneur a week or two back & this guy put success down to 3 things:
1)-Youve got to be doing something that you find easy & others find difficult... ie; youve got to be naturally good at it.
2)-It must be something you thoroughly enjoy & would be doing anyway - for no money...
3)-You must give back...
He went into some detail regarding the last point, stating that whatever it is you wish to achieve; you must give first..? The practicalities lost me a little...
Anyhow, you seem to have the first two criteria in spades!
Well done Carver! Tama 
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congatiki
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Joined: Jun 01, 2004
Posts: 2406
From: wisconsin northwoods
| Posted: 2006-11-23 3:24 pm Permalink
Nice point Tama...I think BK meets all three criteria...and I am thankful (holiday reference
here) for all of the "givers" On TC....
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2006-11-25 6:46 pm Permalink
Thanks, Tam, and thanks Conga...It's feast or famine...and governed a lot by how much you feel like carving this day or that. Motivation is a killer sometimes. I can't do it unless the mana is right...if I force myself my product slips, and I don't like any even regular line Basement Kahuna stuff leaving this shop unless it is on fire. Anything worth doing is worth doing with all you've got creatively, mentally, and physically. Keeping the output original, interesting, new and different and avoiding repetition as much as possible takes a lot of digging around in the noggin as well, but the clients deserve every iota, because they work just as hard to earn their money as I do. I'm thankful and truly blessed that people like what I do. It's been one happy creative accident right after another that made me good at carving. I wouldn't trade the art form for any other.
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Benzart
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Joined: Jan 09, 2004
Posts: 10306
From: Port Saint Lucie, Florida
| Posted: 2006-11-25 7:10 pm Permalink
Excellent work as usual BK. Hope you had an excellent turkey day. I spent mine with our son in Birmingham Alabama.Thought about going by to see you but it would have been far out of the way. Next time for Sure...Nice Work
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2006-11-26 02:39 am Permalink
Anytime, Ben...Open invite.
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2006-11-27 11:17 am Permalink
Here's a Marquesan Bone image just finished for a local client  
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Tamapoutini
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Joined: Aug 30, 2006
Posts: 1529
From: Aotearoa (New Zealand)
| Posted: 2006-11-27 1:15 pm Permalink
Beautiful! Im glad you are posting jewellery again; makes me feel more at home & easier to relate to than all of the TC Big Stuff.
Ka pai! Tama
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