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54 house of bamboo
Grand Member (first year) 
Joined: Sep 28, 2006
Posts: 291
From: Cambridge UK
|  Posted: 2008-05-22 04:54 am Permalink
Just beautifully done and so intricately detailed. Wonderful, magical work.
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Babalu
Grand Member (5 years) 
Joined: Nov 19, 2006
Posts: 2498
From: Lemon Grove
| Posted: 2008-05-23 07:30 am Permalink
Haikai...This work and some of your other shadow box stuff is some of the most amazing stuff I've seen on TC. This direction is just the coolest! Your building new foundations man...CHEERS!
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Bowana
Grand Member (4 years) 
Joined: Nov 10, 2006
Posts: 1117
From: La Mesa, CA
| Posted: 2008-05-23 10:38 pm Permalink
I want to shrink myself and go in there and play! Great work, Haikai!
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haikai
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 09, 2005
Posts: 233
From: Regensburg / Bavaria / Germany
| Posted: 2008-05-30 04:46 am Permalink
Wow! 
Hi guys,
that´s so great! Thank you all for these many entries and your nice words.
I´m happy you enjoy my work. I hope you could see my big smile. 
Last Monday I came back from holiday and I directly started with a lot of work.
I try to answer all your questions at the weekend. Sorry for waiting so long!
Aloha and a sunny weekend, Kai
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Benzart
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Joined: Jan 09, 2004
Posts: 10306
From: Port Saint Lucie, Florida
| Posted: 2008-06-04 10:40 am Permalink
KAI Will be at Hukilau??? Truth or Rumor?
TRUTH!
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Benzart
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 09, 2004
Posts: 10306
From: Port Saint Lucie, Florida
| Posted: 2008-06-18 6:55 pm Permalink
KAI, What can I say, We Finally meet. Seeing your work in Person was totally gratifying, it is just SO GOOD, it doesn't seem like it can get that good but there it was even Better. How do you DO IT. Anyway I was really stoked to finally meet you. Hope your trip back home was easy and quick, Let us know.
Cheers.
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benella
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Joined: Sep 27, 2006
Posts: 1423
From: Meudon, France
| Posted: 2008-09-25 11:34 am Permalink
I know what you did last summer... something Leroy Schmaltz style...  Got pix ?
Benjamin.
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kroozzn62
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 08, 2006
Posts: 122 | Posted: 2008-10-18 7:46 pm Permalink
love your work .
great pics . great skill ,more more please
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haikai
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 09, 2005
Posts: 233
From: Regensburg / Bavaria / Germany
| Posted: 2008-11-21 04:05 am Permalink
Aloha everybody,
sorry for my absent presence on TC in the last month. But I collected a lots of pictures
for you to show why I had not enough time to stay here. Hope you like the following stuff.
The first pictures are from the Island Rügen, were I spend some time togeher with my buddy Andi from Munich.
Once again I carved some new tiki stuff for the Surfhostel Rügen in the north of Germany.
I created 7 barstools out of ash wood.
 
Here you can see the marquesan Tiki I carved last year with a great weathering. I like the natural dark color!
 
Doing an other small marquesan one.
 
The bar with some of the stools
Hanging around with Andy.
After work having a Mai Tai and a cuban! 
And some older marquesan Tikis.
 
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Trader Tark
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Nov 11, 2007
Posts: 44
From: Sunny Brighton UK
| Posted: 2008-11-21 04:46 am Permalink
Fantastic as usual..
What wood is the big one made of?
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haikai
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 09, 2005
Posts: 233
From: Regensburg / Bavaria / Germany
| Posted: 2008-11-21 04:59 am Permalink
Trader Tark, thanks very much! The big one is out of cottonwood.
And here are the next pictures.
In July I visited a Hot Rod Race in the Alps of Switzerland.
I made a live carving show at the festival and finished this Leroy Schmalz Tiki in one day.
It was a hard job and I was totaly done after that job.
The Tiki is now standing at the "Tiki Bar" in small town calls Sargans in Switzerland.
Here are some progress pictures.
 
I used spruce wood for that job.
 
 
A funny tiki friend from Germany.
Thats my carver friend Alex from France. On TC he is calling AKUAE.
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Grapa-RuHa
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Joined: Oct 21, 2008
Posts: 174
From: Netherlands
| Posted: 2008-11-21 05:01 am Permalink
Very impressive, hope to be as good as you someday.
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tikisbytyler
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 16, 2008
Posts: 190
From: Neptune Beach, Florida
| Posted: 2008-11-21 05:44 am Permalink
Haikai,
looking good, man!!!
I really dig your Marq's. Especially the texture in that big guy. i hope you don't mind if I use some of your work as inspiration. Marquesan is next up on my punchlist of traditional carves. Keep posting!
Tyler
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haikai
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Joined: Nov 09, 2005
Posts: 233
From: Regensburg / Bavaria / Germany
| Posted: 2008-11-21 05:50 am Permalink
Definitely Grapa-RuHa, take only a piece of wood and start a new Tiki and above all have fun
tikisbytyler, surely feel free and use the inspiration. It´s an hornor for me. I did the same and I think it´s the only way to learn. Let the chips fly and let me know how it works.
The next pictures are from August when I visited the Rod & Kustom show organized by the Road Devils at Weil am Reihn in south-west Germany. A realy great festival with lots of beautiful cars, lowbrow artists and nice people. I carved there this big tiki for the executive's office of the Carharrt Colothing Company.
Some progress pictures!
 
 
 
The finished Tiki together with lowbrow legend and JUXTAPOZ founder Robert Williams and his wive Suzanne.
 
Dangerous toys for adult men!
 
A friend brought me this awsome present, which he created himself.
Enough for today, now I have to search for some more pictures. I finished some carving jobs,
made a sand-tiki at the french atlantic coast and some smaller stuff.
Aloha, Kai
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hiltiki
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Joined: Jun 10, 2004
Posts: 2772
From: Reseda, calif.
| Posted: 2008-11-21 07:02 am Permalink
Kai, it's so nice to see you back with a lot of pictures. It is so refreshing to see all your work, which by the way, is flawless and a pleasure to look at. You can tell I am a fan.
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