 |
TikiGap's thread - Tiki 20 and other travels - Page 22 |
hmc
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 09, 2006
Posts: 122
From: Melbourne, VIC, Australia
|  Posted: 2006-03-21 7:03 pm Permalink
Wow, what a wonderful thing to have done. Your mum must be so proud! I'm sure she's hanging out in there right now!!!
|
tikigap
Grand Member (8 years) 
Joined: Jan 19, 2006
Posts: 834
From: Arlingtron Virginia
| Posted: 2006-03-22 04:12 am Permalink
Mahalo! and Yes she is - should have seen her face when we had the 'unveiling'. She almost cried!
_________________
[ This Message was edited by: tikigap 2006-03-22 10:48 ]
|
Benzart
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 09, 2004
Posts: 10309
From: Port Saint Lucie, Florida
| Posted: 2006-03-22 11:18 am Permalink
Tikigap, I Love your Tropical island, it is really neat. The Tiki Bar you and your brother did for your mom is really incredible too. I Bet she cried when she saw that.
See ya' soon.
_________________
FACEBOOK
|
PockyTiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Feb 28, 2006
Posts: 556
From: central MA
| Posted: 2006-03-22 2:14 pm Permalink
Aw, man. Where's the wooden monkey?? haha, just kidding. Anyways, that's an AWESOME bar you set up for your mom. Now i want one. I'll just have to wait.
_________________
|
tikigap
Grand Member (8 years)
Joined: Jan 19, 2006
Posts: 834
From: Arlingtron Virginia
| Posted: 2006-03-23 05:40 am Permalink
Thanks you guys - we had fun whippin' that up. I also made her a sign yesterday and gave it to her last night unpainted - that's up to her. The sign is at the bottom of this link:
http://mysite.verizon.net/gapearce/traderviv.htm
_________________
[ This Message was edited by: tikigap 2006-09-29 20:33 ]
|
tikigap
Grand Member (8 years)
Joined: Jan 19, 2006
Posts: 834
From: Arlingtron Virginia
| Posted: 2006-03-24 8:21 pm Permalink
Here's another update. I hacked out the base from a 2 inch think piece of walnut...
then sanded it a lot...
then sealed it tonight...
[ This Message was edited by: tikigap 2006-08-25 09:26 ]
|
Benzart
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 09, 2004
Posts: 10309
From: Port Saint Lucie, Florida
| Posted: 2006-03-25 01:46 am Permalink
Awwright, Now yer talkin'
|
Helz
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Oct 31, 2004
Posts: 415
From: Westminster, CO
| Posted: 2006-03-25 05:34 am Permalink
I can't wait to see this one all finished up. I love the little Oar Man.
|
tikigap
Grand Member (8 years)
Joined: Jan 19, 2006
Posts: 834
From: Arlingtron Virginia
| Posted: 2006-03-25 08:54 am Permalink
Thanks you guys -
It's been slow - I had too many irons in the fire, but that's over now. I'd like to finish this project up before CoonTiki and get hackin on some bigger, more tiki-like stuff!
_________________
|
tikigap
Grand Member (8 years)
Joined: Jan 19, 2006
Posts: 834
From: Arlingtron Virginia
| Posted: 2006-03-28 6:27 pm Permalink
Another "Island Scene" update. I screwed up the base something fierce, so when I get back from Coon Tiki I'll replace it.
I tried to put "sand" on the "beach", so first I used red garnet sand and mixed it into the polyurethane. But that was too dark, so I removed that and tried white sand. Really bad idea. I'm just going to use walnut, or oak maybe, like the wahine said to do in the first place. I'm beginning to hate this dumb little thing.
[ This Message was edited by: tikigap 2006-08-25 09:27 ]
|
AlohaStation
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 27, 2004
Posts: 2014
From: So FL
| Posted: 2006-03-29 06:39 am Permalink
Instead of putting sand on the base, why not use wood and create a texture. Take the wood and smash it with a meat tenderizer - hammer. Stain it, sand it, hammer it and repeat. Its a nice wooden sculpture there's no reason to try and cover up the wood. Good luck.
|
tikigap
Grand Member (8 years)
Joined: Jan 19, 2006
Posts: 834
From: Arlingtron Virginia
| Posted: 2006-03-29 08:37 am Permalink
Hey, now why didn't I think of that? Because I'm a NOOB! Thanks Aloha! I'll try that!
_________________
|
tikigap
Grand Member (8 years)
Joined: Jan 19, 2006
Posts: 834
From: Arlingtron Virginia
| Posted: 2006-04-09 1:18 pm Permalink
Ok, I trashed the old base, and made a new one. Carve #7 is done:
_________________
[ This Message was edited by: tikigap 2006-08-25 09:29 ]
|
tikigap
Grand Member (8 years)
Joined: Jan 19, 2006
Posts: 834
From: Arlingtron Virginia
| Posted: 2006-04-09 1:20 pm Permalink
Carve #8 - Inspired by Tiki Diablo at Coon Tiki - Here's some progress pictures:
These three pictures were taken at Coon Tiki:
Here's tang with his litter mates: (Silverline's got a little too close to the fire last night)
This one is in my backyard, before burning:
_________________
[ This Message was edited by: tikigap 2006-08-25 09:32 ]
|
congatiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 01, 2004
Posts: 2409
From: wisconsin northwoods
| Posted: 2006-04-09 2:12 pm Permalink
hey...nice little tiki scene GAP....good job on the tang too.
|
