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TikiScott
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Joined: Oct 07, 2002
Posts: 5
From: San Diego
|  Posted: 2002-11-06 8:19 pm Permalink
I think we need a post that shows off carvings or other tiki stuff people on here have made. Too start off, here are the carvings I have done so far.
Id like to see others carving without having to search through a bunch of posts. Thanks!
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johntiki
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Joined: Mar 31, 2002
Posts: 1525
From: MD
| Posted: 2002-11-06 10:58 pm Permalink
my first and only tiki...this shit is hard!
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2002-11-07 8:24 pm Permalink
Neato stuff....I'll put a couple of my own up tomorrow when I can get some sunlight to photo in.
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2002-11-08 9:18 pm Permalink
Here's some of mine:     The mask came about because I wanted a Tonga Roa just like the one on Night Of The Tiki but flatter. The large club is a short Atakara, or Cook Islands type of serrated club. The small, fat club is a Maori Kotiate, or disarming club. I like carving when I have time. It's not exactly relaxing but extremely rewarding in the end. Those are some cool tikis at the top of the thread!
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2002-11-08 9:23 pm Permalink
P.S. The finish on the clubs was achieved by a slight charring with a blowtorch, a rub with potash, a wipedown and several coats of satin Deft. They still don't compare to the look of an original (of which I have one Maori club) but it's what I can afford.
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Turbogod
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Joined: Jun 14, 2002
Posts: 1219 | Posted: 2002-11-09 07:48 am Permalink
Here's my first attempt.  and a mask I made 
working on 2 new ones, but I just got my Dad's old train set and I am working on them right now.
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Lake Surfer
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Joined: Oct 21, 2002
Posts: 3308
From: Milwaukee, WI
| Posted: 2002-11-11 10:48 am Permalink
Some of my recent carvings...
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2002-11-26 08:02 am Permalink
New weapons coming soon!
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GECKO
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Joined: Jun 01, 2002
Posts: 1049
From: South Sea Arts Honolulu
| Posted: 2002-11-26 8:22 pm Permalink
here are a few flavors of the pacific.
This is a personal creation. a coconut wood carved mask.
this is a yipwan I made a while back. From the Sepik New Guinea area.
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<BR>This is a traditional tiki carved in Marqueas as well as Tahiti. When I make tikis i use a variety of finishes. some burned, varnished, painted and stained. I call this finish my "TV" Trader Vic color because he used those dark finished tikis a lot in his restaurants.
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here we have a mixture of South Sea Arts. I combined a New Guinea mask on a tapa(bark cloth) shield from Samoa or the Fiji islands which is another big supplier of the beautiful art of Tapa.
In this picture as you see, I too like playing with bamboo! a frame for a album cover.
finally, I know it's not a tiki but I love to make things for tiki bars and what would a bar be without polynesian bathroom signs. I hate going into a bar and seeing those ugly blue plastic men/women tabs on the door! This makes the atmosphere more authentic.
ke brahddas an sistas, i get hungry so i gon grind already!
Shootz!
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hula hula
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Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 407
From: da 9th island/ vegas
| Posted: 2002-11-27 2:33 pm Permalink
this is a psuedo carving/engraving of a hei-tiki maori style. They kinda reminnd me of little aliens. He's now my plant stand, I had a little stump left from another tiki im in the middle of carving so I just wanted to try to something different, not great but its getting easier and Im learn a bunch.
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2002-11-29 02:22 am Permalink
Just finished a pair of Fijian Sali clubs...(Trader Vic's used this type of club for a swizzlestick once). Will post pics ASAP.
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2002-12-01 6:53 pm Permalink
Here is a pair of Fijian Sali clubs I just carved.....big ones, about 4 feet long.This type of club was immortalized in a Trader Vic's swizzle stick. A little charring, sanding, and dark Brewax gives them that old look.    
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GECKO
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Joined: Jun 01, 2002
Posts: 1049
From: South Sea Arts Honolulu
| Posted: 2002-12-01 7:17 pm Permalink
Good job BK. Nice clubs. Nice work from everyone here on the carving post. Nice to see new interest in polynesian carving.
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3587
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2002-12-01 9:38 pm Permalink
Thanks, Sir Gecko....likewise. I like that Yipwan spirit hook!
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Kentiki
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Mar 24, 2002
Posts: 86
From: Miami
| Posted: 2002-12-03 08:03 am Permalink
Here's a 3-foot-tall KU I finished a couple months back.
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