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seeksurf
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Joined: Sep 27, 2007
Posts: 2144
From: Buckley, WA
|  Posted: 2008-06-10 5:13 pm Permalink
Man! looking great. love the hairball flame.
Yes the gun shell cool great conversation piece.
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Grom Tiki Carver
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Savage Daddy
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Joined: Jul 10, 2006
Posts: 164
From: Sarasota, Fl.
| Posted: 2008-06-10 5:30 pm Permalink
NIce tikis. 
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Tucson Tiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 27, 2008
Posts: 185 | Posted: 2008-06-10 5:32 pm Permalink
I really dig this piece. I have been wranglin' with my wood source for a log with the rootball on it. I like the flames. Some multiple orange/yellowish stain would be cool if done corectly. Very neat as always. Ruler!
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Jungle Trader
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Joined: Jan 04, 2003
Posts: 3691
From: Trader's Jungle Outpost, Turlock, Ca.
| Posted: 2008-06-28 9:20 pm Permalink
So on Mother's Day (about 6 weeks ago) I go out to check out my pond and I see thousands of tadpoles only about 1/8" long just a swimmin around. Tiny little things. Today I amble out and find tiny toads no bigger than my thumbnail hopping this way and that. Cutest darn things you ever saw. The Tiki Gods have blessed my backyard with healthy habitat. WOOT! Just 2 weeks after I saw the tadpoles I saw a red-eared slider turtle swimmin' around. Three weeks later I saw him again sticking his head up for air. I caught it and it has a beautiful shell (about the width of a golf ball) almost neon green laced with yellow. WOOT again! Good thing the pet gator is only made of fiberglass eh?
Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
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Jungle Trader
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Joined: Jan 04, 2003
Posts: 3691
From: Trader's Jungle Outpost, Turlock, Ca.
| Posted: 2008-06-28 9:22 pm Permalink
pix soon
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Jungle Trader
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Joined: Jan 04, 2003
Posts: 3691
From: Trader's Jungle Outpost, Turlock, Ca.
| Posted: 2008-08-02 9:41 pm Permalink
Here's my latest, just a tad short of 5 ft. tall. As some of you know, the most prominent feature on a Moai is the nose. I started out carving away the wood on the forehead, but then I knew the features would not balance out so I switched to carving the nose deep into the cylinder shaped log of still green palmwood. Looks simple but it isn't. A lot of wood has to be removed. I think it took approximately 8 hours to get to this point. Carve on!
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Tikilizard
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Joined: Aug 19, 2006
Posts: 369 | Posted: 2008-08-03 09:35 am Permalink
Lookin' great! The grain looks perfect for the big Moai. Happy carving.
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Lake Surfer
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Joined: Oct 21, 2002
Posts: 3311
From: Milwaukee, WI
| Posted: 2008-08-03 10:03 am Permalink
Very impressive JT!
Perfect log for a moai, nice and wide! And the nose looks perfect.
Nice work!
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Unga Bunga
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Joined: Jun 06, 2003
Posts: 5734
From: CaliTikifornia
| Posted: 2008-08-03 9:12 pm Permalink
You can see he's looking over the horizon.
Nice job JT!
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Matt Reese
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Joined: May 09, 2005
Posts: 1114
From: San Diego
| Posted: 2008-08-04 09:56 am Permalink
Need a shot with you next to it for size reference. Looking good.
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The Sperm Whale
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Joined: Aug 23, 2004
Posts: 1538
From: Lakewood California
| Posted: 2008-08-04 10:21 am Permalink
Awesome!!!
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seeksurf
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 27, 2007
Posts: 2144
From: Buckley, WA
| Posted: 2008-08-04 8:46 pm Permalink
Great Job! that's one handsome fella.
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GROG
Grand Member (first year) 
Joined: Jun 21, 2006
Posts: 6195
From: Tujunga
| Posted: 2008-08-05 12:10 am Permalink
Nice looking Moai, Tarzan.
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Johnny Dollar
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Joined: Oct 01, 2003
Posts: 2916
From: Baltimore, Maryland, PNG
| Posted: 2008-08-05 04:18 am Permalink
kick ass!
hope this helps.
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Jungle Trader
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Joined: Jan 04, 2003
Posts: 3691
From: Trader's Jungle Outpost, Turlock, Ca.
| Posted: 2009-01-11 10:59 am Permalink
Thanks Dollar (real NAME!). Thanks also to Lizard, (not real name), Lake, UB, Matt, (as soon as I find a model for this one I'll post her), Spermy, seeksurf, and Grog (brother in the jungle).
Here's more creations from the hands of Jungle.
Yah the Moai is about 5 ft and you'll notice he has a beauty spot on his left cheek and no ears, (Van Gogh Mo). How many people do you know with beauty spots on their left cheek?
The latest waterscape is done and the customer is elated. I was gonna include a tiki with the pond and stream but he wanted a koi instead. I got tronchoteric burrcitis (sp?) from digging this one, (clay and rock soil) but I'm recovering quickly, just a litle hitch in my get-along. Jungle stand tall again tomorrow.
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