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Paipo
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Joined: Jun 22, 2006
Posts: 1886
From: Aotearoa / NZ
|  Posted: 2006-08-14 12:04 pm Permalink
That looks more authentic than most of the stuff I see on ebay! Very cool piece - what's next?
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Bete
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Joined: Jan 01, 2006
Posts: 490 | Posted: 2006-08-15 06:33 am Permalink
Looks very cool Johnny! It looks like an antique, that's a very cool technique you are using to do that.
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3588
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2006-08-15 08:31 am Permalink
Nice piece! Maprik or Angoram looks like.. PM me and I'll send you a supplier on some scarcer materials.
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Bete
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Joined: Jan 01, 2006
Posts: 490 | Posted: 2006-08-15 4:52 pm Permalink
P.S. and yeah we do "know how we have to goof around and really use our imaginations to pretend we are in the land of tiki" I hear ya Bro.
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JohnnyP
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Joined: Nov 23, 2005
Posts: 1689
From: Attica, MI
| Posted: 2006-08-16 1:47 pm Permalink
Hey everybody,
Thanks a lot. The pictures came out blurryer than they looked on my computer.
Congatiki- I think Kudos is an un-tiki word- but thanks anyways.
Tikigap / Bete- I was referring to north for Tiki Land point of view- north meaning not Florida or SoCal. Not to the un-tiki Mason-Dixon line that separates us.
Surf-n-turf- The sharks tooth thingy did take a long long time (ask Kingstyedye) to complete-thanks for noticing.
Paipo-Thank you for the comments- my goal is to look as authentic as possible and I am slowly learning how to carve and still have a long ways to go.
BK- Yes I would love to get a source for some authentic materials. I felt pretty silly standing by the road picking through a rotten carcass like a vulture--Ahhh, what we do for fun. Not exactly sure of the region from PNG, I found a picture in a book, but it wasn't identified as to where it was from.
I do have a few more bones if anybody wants one of these. For reference this is about 6 inches long.
I just finished reading all 24 pages of the un-tiki thread and I have to ask: Most of my carvings and interest are PNG influenced and I think they fit the tiki definition, but are they? I've been the the Mai Kai in Florida and much of their decoration is New Guinea influenced (much of it very close to authentic looking) so I've been using that as my yardstick. Also I have seen fish carvings in other tiki bars so I didn't think they were out of place. What do you think?
Thanks again.
JP
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AlohaStation
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Joined: Sep 27, 2004
Posts: 2072
From: So FL
| Posted: 2006-08-16 6:08 pm Permalink
Keep posting and figure it out later. One man's tiki is anothers not-so-tiki-knockoff. Your stuff comes from your creativity not someone else opinion. Besides they kick as#.
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JohnnyP
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Joined: Nov 23, 2005
Posts: 1689
From: Attica, MI
| Posted: 2006-08-19 6:32 pm Permalink
Thanks AlohaStation.
This is a PNG horn or flute and was my project for the rainy day. I found photos of one for sale on Ebay, but it had a dogs head and I changed it to a crocodiles head, which were also often used.
I hollowed out the end of the horn by drilling a hole from the end down to the mouth hole. Next I opened the opening by using a chainsaw and plunging and twisting the bar while cutting until the bar was fully in the log. The wall thickness at the end is less than 1/2 inch. It is made out of elm wood and is just about 3 feet long. This thing makes some weird sounds.
Maybe stain tomorrow.
Thanks for looking.
JP
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GMAN
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Joined: Jul 14, 2005
Posts: 2994
From: My Island
| Posted: 2006-08-19 6:40 pm Permalink
JP,
That is nutz! Wow, how cool is that? Wicked geat carving on the head...jeez, what are you a professional now? Call me up and let me hear what that thing sounds like! I want one!
-Gman
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JohnnyP
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Joined: Nov 23, 2005
Posts: 1689
From: Attica, MI
| Posted: 2006-08-19 6:50 pm Permalink
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On 2006-08-19 18:40, GMAN wrote:
JP,
Call me up and let me hear what that thing sounds like! I want one!
-Gman
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Imagine this
"AHHHHHHUUUUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeaaaaaaAAAAAAAeeeeeeeeeHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhh UUUUUooooooooOOOOOohhhhhhOOOOOOOOOOOAAAeeeeeeee EEEEEEhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuugggggghhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaa aaaauuuugaa"
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GMAN
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Posts: 2994
From: My Island
| Posted: 2006-08-19 6:52 pm Permalink
Man, I'm sitting her polishing my bone and you are carving things that make crazy sounds....I got off at the wrong stop this morning......
-Gman
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Benzart
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Joined: Jan 09, 2004
Posts: 10338
From: Port Saint Lucie, Florida
| Posted: 2006-08-20 08:03 am Permalink
Looks like the flute will bite you if you don't play it right. I wanna hear it, can't you include some sopund bytes? Looks really neat.
The Amazing Johnny P Strikes again, Step right up folks, the man is ON Fire!!
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Tiki Duddy
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Joined: Jun 04, 2006
Posts: 759
From: Manitoba, Canada
| Posted: 2006-08-20 09:36 am Permalink
nice work there! that looks really good there.
good job
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Paipo
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Joined: Jun 22, 2006
Posts: 1886
From: Aotearoa / NZ
| Posted: 2006-08-20 1:52 pm Permalink
Personally, I can't see how work based on South Seas artifacts couldn't be tiki. To me the idea of someone getting home from work , or sitting in suburbia somewhere, and carving themself an obscure and primitive object - that epitomises the whole concept of tiki.
I've never been much into PNG stuff, being much more a classical Polynesian fan, but I'm really starting to warm to it. You're doing some very cool pieces, and the new one is no exception.
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Basement Kahuna
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
Posts: 3588
From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2006-08-20 9:26 pm Permalink
Nice work on the flute stopper! The originals are among the most highly collected PNG artifacts, and consequently most are very, very expensive. That's a quality job and looks very authentic.
[ This Message was edited by: Basement Kahuna 2006-08-20 21:27 ]
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Bete
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Joined: Jan 01, 2006
Posts: 490 | Posted: 2006-08-21 09:18 am Permalink
Looks cool!
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