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Tipsy McStagger
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 21, 2004
Posts: 3388
From: HELL
|  Posted: 2012-12-15 12:08 pm Permalink
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On 2012-12-15 08:55, ukutiki wrote:
I found this weird guy in a thrift store yesterday. It appears to be made of a sintered ceramic material and has a sandy feel to it. about 4 inches tall. Is it a tiki frog, frog tiki, or something else? Anybody recognize it? Mahalo.
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would make a nice mug if someone were to duplicate the sculpt up to mug size...... "son of suffering bastard".
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hang10tiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jul 18, 2010
Posts: 1979
From: Las Vegas
| Posted: 2012-12-15 12:34 pm Permalink
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PockyTiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Feb 28, 2006
Posts: 556
From: central MA
| Posted: 2012-12-15 12:46 pm Permalink
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On 2012-12-15 12:08, Tipsy McStagger wrote:
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On 2012-12-15 08:55, ukutiki wrote:
I found this weird guy in a thrift store yesterday. It appears to be made of a sintered ceramic material and has a sandy feel to it. about 4 inches tall. Is it a tiki frog, frog tiki, or something else? Anybody recognize it? Mahalo.
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would make a nice mug if someone were to duplicate the sculpt up to mug size...... "son of suffering bastard".
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After looking at the sculpt closely, you can see that strange wood-grain like texture on it. It's a dead give away. It was created using a 3-dimensional printer, aka you design it on a computer in some sort of 3d digital design program, upload it to the printer software and the printer will actually print/sculpt that design in various materials.
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ukutiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Feb 25, 2009
Posts: 132
From: Michigan
| Posted: 2012-12-15 1:14 pm Permalink
Thanks for the heads up on the 3D printer. I have seen them but it never crossed my mind that 3D-P was used for this little fellow. Here is a link to You Tube showing a video of a tiki planter being made using this technology.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msNMY0J-we4
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PockyTiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Feb 28, 2006
Posts: 556
From: central MA
| Posted: 2012-12-15 1:22 pm Permalink
Yeah, it's a really neat system. It crossed my mind because I remembered that a member on here created a couple pendants the exact same way.
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atomictonytiki
Grand Member (8 years) 
Joined: May 14, 2002
Posts: 1267
From: Bangkok
| Posted: 2012-12-16 05:08 am Permalink
3D printed goods in a thrift store, welcome to the future.
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bigbrotiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10566
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2012-12-16 09:10 am Permalink
A friend proposed to do that for my Tiki Ti mug. This piece does indeed look like someone tried to dabble in Tiki mug design, not half bad, kinda Mayan/SciFi... and yes, a truly odd reversal of the natural thrift shop process, to have a mug show up in one before it was even produced! (just assuming that it wasn't, why would it have ended up there otherwise)
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krikkitbot
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Jun 20, 2012
Posts: 17 | Posted: 2012-12-18 11:55 am Permalink
I found this alien looking guy at a thrift store in Denver this weekend.
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HOUSE OF KU
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 15, 2005
Posts: 537
From: TIKILAND, USA
| Posted: 2012-12-19 01:47 am Permalink
Looks to be from Tahiti 
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MadDogMike
Grand Member (3 years) 
Joined: Mar 30, 2008
Posts: 6412
From: The Anvil of the Sun
| Posted: 2012-12-19 03:36 am Permalink
He's obviously constipated and trying to pinch a loaf in an old tire 
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komohana
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 08, 2010
Posts: 348
From: western australia
| Posted: 2012-12-19 5:40 pm Permalink
Two kava bowls - 8" & 13" dia. respectively - Samoan, I would think.
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atomictonytiki
Grand Member (8 years)
Joined: May 14, 2002
Posts: 1267
From: Bangkok
| Posted: 2012-12-20 08:00 am Permalink
the one with the square legs might be, my mother-in-law has a larger version of it that I covet. the four legged one I think is Fijian.
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atomictonytiki
Grand Member (8 years)
Joined: May 14, 2002
Posts: 1267
From: Bangkok
| Posted: 2012-12-20 08:03 am Permalink
the one with the square legs might be, my mother-in-law has a larger version of it that I covet. the four legged one I think is Fijian.
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tikijackalope
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Oct 23, 2003
Posts: 814
From: KS/MO
| Posted: 2012-12-21 12:55 am Permalink
I hadn't found anything interesting enough to report here in ages and then I picked up this wood (palm?) tiki in an antique mall near Wichita, KS, a couple days ago. It's about 36" tall and a tag on it read "totem tiki from Hawaii." I can find no identifying markings on it.
Tourist trade tiki? Restaurant decor refugee? Hobby carving? I've left a message for the dealer asking for more info but have not heard back. Any input as to where this might have come from would be appreciated.
I'm happy to have this, but it sure makes my Orchids of Hawaii tikis look even gaudier.
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Hale Tiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Oct 19, 2004
Posts: 1414
From: Pittsburgh
| Posted: 2012-12-21 05:29 am Permalink
tikijackalope:
It's actually worse than your gawdy tikis. It's a real piece of crap. Send it to me, I'll dispose of it for you.
What an amazing piece. I could not be more jealous.
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