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KAHAKA
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Joined: Mar 03, 2003
Posts: 756
From: San Jose, CA
|  Posted: 2006-02-18 10:50 am Permalink
Here's some wall sconce's I've been working on. They're 8" wide x 10" tall.
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Polynesiac
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Joined: Jan 29, 2004
Posts: 2020
From: San Pedro, CA
| Posted: 2006-02-18 6:08 pm Permalink
whoa... I missed your last post - those lamps are too cool AND going to the Kona Club?!?!?! Awesome! They'll look great with B-bens work...fit right in. So how many tiki bars have your lamps now? 
Those sconces are excellent. THose for home or for sale? or???? You got the magic touch for the lights. nice job!!!
PS - I still want to do that trade...just been super busy...
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hewey
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Joined: Sep 14, 2004
Posts: 4270
From: Sydney, Australia
| Posted: 2006-02-19 03:09 am Permalink
Nice wall lamps, as always. The half circle design looks good too
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KAHAKA
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Joined: Mar 03, 2003
Posts: 756
From: San Jose, CA
| Posted: 2006-02-27 6:42 pm Permalink
Thanks you guys for nice words. Poly, I just about went bananers when Doug considered my lamps for the Kona. I was completely blown away when I dropped them off before the place opened. 'Boo Ben's work's friggin' bitchin' (that was 5 apostrophes in a row). I still needs to make me a visit out there... I haven't seen the place since it opened.
Here's my latest...
I tried staining the bamboo after torching it, like I did on the sconces.
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OnaTiki
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Posts: 407
From: San Diego, CA
| Posted: 2006-02-27 7:03 pm Permalink
Nice job!!! The bamboo bottom came out well.
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Monkeyman
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Posts: 2300
From: Vista, CA
| Posted: 2006-02-27 8:09 pm Permalink
Kahaka the lamp master
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Polynesiac
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From: San Pedro, CA
| Posted: 2006-02-27 8:11 pm Permalink
another beauty of a lamp! I dig the cut bamboo bottom - it looks time consuming, but the effect on the light looks totally cool.
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KAHAKA
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From: San Jose, CA
| Posted: 2006-02-27 8:24 pm Permalink
Yeah, those bamboo bottoms are a bugger. Just ask OnaTiki... he's the bamboo bottom king!
Monkeyman, I'm no master... still trying to figure this lamp making thing out. Your latest lamp is cooler than anything I've seen!
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hewey
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Posts: 4270
From: Sydney, Australia
| Posted: 2006-02-28 01:26 am Permalink
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On 2006-02-27 20:24, KAHAKA wrote:
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Nah dude, your much past the "just figuring it out" stage. Love it, very cool.
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KAHAKA
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Joined: Mar 03, 2003
Posts: 756
From: San Jose, CA
| Posted: 2006-04-20 11:24 pm Permalink
New lamp for the VLV Ku tiki bar... made this a while back but didn't post it. I also just put pics of it up on Nacho's (creator of the Ku bar) collection of stuff.
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caerthe
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Joined: Feb 14, 2006
Posts: 94 | Posted: 2006-04-21 12:43 am Permalink
Kahaka,
I've always found this form of lighting, extremely intriguing. It was, in fact, my search for tiki lighting that led me to TC. You should make a few commercial models and approach a chain store. I mean that in a sincerely positive way.
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bongofury
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From: Ventura County
| Posted: 2006-04-21 07:31 am Permalink
Very cool lamps Kahaka.
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Tiki Lee
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Joined: May 30, 2002
Posts: 34
From: Kentfield, CA
| Posted: 2006-04-21 8:56 pm Permalink
Very nice lamps! They remind me of the "rental only" lamps at Oceanic Arts -- the ones I can never convince them to sell me! I love the look of the little bamboo rounds on the bottom. Are those just cut to short lengths and glued to the bottom?
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TravelingJones
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Joined: Mar 11, 2006
Posts: 868
From: Eastern Shores of Western Civilization
| Posted: 2006-04-22 11:36 am Permalink
Tripping-Da-Lightshow-Fantastic, Kahaka! De-lights iz smokin' HOT!!!
Ho Ssweeet brah, are they available to us mere mortals???
...Flippity-fLip-floPPin-Flip-OUT!!! --TravelingJones
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Polynesiac
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Posts: 2020
From: San Pedro, CA
| Posted: 2006-04-22 6:45 pm Permalink
Carving too? Once you start, you'll be hooked and want to add little carved pieces to all your new lamps. Love you lamps - I saw the ones at FI in persona few weeks past and they were HOT! you do fine work.
You going to Oasis?
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