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tikigap
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Joined: Jan 19, 2006
Posts: 834
From: Arlingtron Virginia
|  Posted: 2008-07-10 09:40 am Permalink
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On 2008-07-10 07:41, Benzart wrote:
Yeah, Any more Weird messages?? Been Missing you around these parts, Hope all is well with you. Come show us what you are up to!
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Well hello fellas! - JP, Ben, and everyone else. It has been a while - and I've been remiss! It's great to hear from you and thanks for checking in on me. I'm glad to see you guys are still at it - and that Ben is all healed up 
Life has been catching up with me, (kids in college, new job, surgery (gall bladder out! Ewww!), lots of travel etc.), so I have not been doing enough of my own stuff - I have had almost zero time to carve for the last 6 months or so. I have been lurking on TC though, and checkin out the great stuff - you guys amaze me.
I did finally finish the palm log (my Tiki #20) Ben gave me to drag home a while back - I call it "Bathroom Tiki". I know, it's just another 'face tiki', but it's what my wife would allow me to put up in the BR.
I made a rubber stamp (or four) for a border around the BR, and carved out some molding for around the mirror, and stuck the #20 on the wall:
It aint much, but it was at least some carving
I went to San Francisco on business a month ago and visited the Tonga Room in the Fairmont Hotel, and Trader Vics in Emeryville.
Also, I just got back from 2 weeks in Alaska (zero tiki - none - nada), but I did get to see some fantastic totem carves, which has inspired me to pick up the mallet again. Also, at the suggestion of TabooDan, I stopped by the Waldorf Hotel in Vancouver BC to see the Tahitian Room.
Thanks again, and I should be posting again real soon, hopefully with some examples of better-quality work.
Greg
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congatiki
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Joined: Jun 01, 2004
Posts: 2406
From: wisconsin northwoods
| Posted: 2008-07-10 2:53 pm Permalink
Hey Greg
Nice to hear that you are still around these parts, and nice job with the
bathroom re-do. The carving is cool...even tho it's "just" a head 
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tikigap
Grand Member (8 years)
Joined: Jan 19, 2006
Posts: 834
From: Arlingtron Virginia
| Posted: 2013-03-09 9:03 pm Permalink
It's been a long time.
I'm going to post a few carvings I have done since my last post in 2008. Here's the first one - from a piece of bamboo Ben gave me. A Zombie lamp. Did this a couple years ago.
I'll post some other random stuff in a bit.
I've been missin you guys!
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congatiki
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Joined: Jun 01, 2004
Posts: 2406
From: wisconsin northwoods
| Posted: 2013-03-10 04:44 am Permalink
Hi "old timer," nice to see you popping in. Not many of us left from "Coon Tiki I"
anymore, I guess we might have been the middle group of the TC carving community. Nice
lamp, show some more stuff when you have time.
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Benzart
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Joined: Jan 09, 2004
Posts: 10306
From: Port Saint Lucie, Florida
| Posted: 2013-03-24 11:15 am Permalink
Hey T-Gap, Great to see that "Bathroom Tiki" finally done. looks good and the bamboo lamp is Awesome,Glad you finally did that too.
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