 |
Totem Tiki from avacado tree trunk #6 |
tfisherart
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Oct 08, 2005
Posts: 179
From: Satellite Beach FL
|  Posted: 2006-01-27 02:22 am Permalink
Still have the 3rd head to complete. Avacado is very cool to work with, sands smoother than basswood.
enjoy,
_________________
Thom <")}}}}><er
http://www.thomsart.com
|
Bete
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 01, 2006
Posts: 490 | Posted: 2006-01-27 06:18 am Permalink
That's ery cool looking.
|
rodeotiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 21, 2004
Posts: 1513
From: calgary
| Posted: 2006-01-27 08:38 am Permalink
Looks great . how tall is it ? and is the stump still in the ground ?
|
AlohaStation
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 27, 2004
Posts: 2004
From: So FL
| Posted: 2006-01-27 10:16 am Permalink
Your tiki just pisses me off! I had an opportunity to acquire an avacado stump that was huge. The next day when I went to get it the garbage guys had already picked it up. Damn garbage collectors! When I see how good/great yours looks that feeling just came back. Great job. Keep on carvin.
|
Benzart
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 09, 2004
Posts: 10306
From: Port Saint Lucie, Florida
| Posted: 2006-01-27 10:18 am Permalink
Tfish, that is Really Cool. Very nice carving and the wood IS Beautiful. I used to carve it years ago and really enjoyed it. It carves easy, sands up great and finishes Beautifully.
What finish are you going to put on it?
_________________
FACEBOOK
|
tfisherart
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Oct 08, 2005
Posts: 179
From: Satellite Beach FL
| Posted: 2006-01-27 1:46 pm Permalink
Thanks, Rodeo it is 4'6" and is not in the ground got it from my neighbor after hurricane Wilma along with 2 beautiful pieces of coconut, I have one pic of the coconut I'll post today. Ben using sanding sealer and gloss spar varnish.
Thanks again,
_________________
Thom <")}}}}><er
http://www.thomsart.com
[ This Message was edited by: tfisherart 2006-01-27 13:49 ]
|
JohnnyP
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 23, 2005
Posts: 1689
From: Attica, MI
| Posted: 2006-01-27 3:43 pm Permalink
I like the different styles on the same carving. It must be nice carving some "exotic" (at least by Michigan standards) woods.
JP
|
Aaron's Akua
Grand Member (8 years) 
Joined: Jul 09, 2004
Posts: 1594
From: Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
| Posted: 2006-01-27 9:25 pm Permalink
Thom, that piece is really cool. Lots of work into it, must have taken lots of patience. Avocado just sounds nice... tasty even... I'd stain it with a little bit of a green tint just for that reason.
A-A
_________________
"Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness."
-Pablo Picasso
|
pdrake
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 13, 2006
Posts: 1764
From: las vegas
| Posted: 2006-01-27 9:44 pm Permalink
wow
guacotiki
|
Raffertiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Oct 31, 2003
Posts: 1527
From: L.I.
| Posted: 2006-01-28 06:56 am Permalink
That wood is beautiful, and your tiki(s) are doing it justice.
|
